Building Support / Advocacy
Banded Educator Panel: Educators Helping Educators Week 3
We hope you found the viewpoints presented last week by our panel educators to be helpful. If you are taking your first look this week, welcome! In an effort to provide some...
Banded Educator Panel: Educators Helping Educators Week 2
We hope you found the viewpoints presented last week by our panel educators to be helpful. If you are taking your first look this week, welcome! In an effort to provide some...
Banded Educator Panel: Educators helping Educators Week 1
Welcome to the start of a new school year! Beginnings always bring excitement and opportunity. If you are a new music educator or are about to embark on your student teaching...
A Few Truths Parents Must Understand When Their Child Begins Playing a Musical Instrument
It’s the beginning of another school year, and hundreds of thousands of school children around the country have chosen which instrument they want to play and have taken it home...
How Students Learn Self-Efficacy Through Instrumental Music Instruction
As a parent, one of the best things that I can hope for is that my children have the wherewithal to make their way through life armed with a wide variety of skills and a...
A Beginning-of-Year Welcome Letter to New Music Parents
Dear Parents:It is with great excitement that I welcome your family to our instrumental music program!Learning to play a musical instrument and acquiring the unique habits of...
Instrumental Music Education and the Power of Play in Our Schools
I have spent many years visiting public schools throughout our nation, and most times I see the same thing: students hard at work. There is always lots of work going...
4 Ways Parents Can Ensure Their Child Sticks with Instrumental Music When They Graduate to Middle School
Graduating from one to school to the next is both an exciting and crazy time, to say the least. The changes that are occurring biologically, socially, and academically in...
The Music Education (or Creativity) Achievement Gap in America, and How We Can Begin to Fix It
Our nation has been deeply committed to closing the achievement gap that exists in our education system for almost 15 years. Achievement gaps occur when one group of...
