Building Support / Advocacy
How Parents can Change Their Family Tree Through Their Child’s Music Education
What if everyone believed that there was no such thing as natural talent and inborn gifts?Our world is obsessed with discovering innate abilities. Our media — and...
Why Students Don’t Like School (and How Music Instruction Changes That)
We have learned more about how the brain works in the last decade than ever before. Even with all the new knowledge we have about how children learn, our schools have been...
An End-of-Year Letter to New Music Parents
Dear Parents:As our school year winds down, I would like to congratulate you on completing the first year of your child’s instrumental music study! It’s amazing...
Music Education’s Role in a Culture of “College Preparedness”
While the United States used to pride itself on the percentage of its young people who successfully passed through the higher education system, things have changed drastically...
Why Parents Need to Know What Great Music Teaching “Looks” Like
On any given day, one can scroll down Facebook and see inspiring memes and articles about the benefits of music education. Articles sprout up in major newspapers about the...
Why Students Really Quit Their Musical Instrument (and How Parents Can Prevent It)
Every year almost 100% of public school students begin an instrument though their school’s music program (if a program exists). One or two years later, more than 50% of...
New National Standards? Now what?
As with every year, especially in education, change is upon us! That’s going to be one thing we can always count on. While we can’t control many of the directives and initiatives...
The Music Coalition: More Than Fund-Raising
There are four primary components to successful music advocacy.A comprehensive Music CoalitionA unified body of Music EducatorsDetailed knowledge of the function and process of...
Performance Organizations: Student, Parent, Administration and Conductor Involvement
Obviously, the structure of any organization should follow the purpose and function of the intended or established organization. In an attempt to sustain musical acceptance, far...
