Education Resources
Tip of the Week, Music Practice Coach: Lance Laduke
Lance is on a mission to learn to play a variety of new instruments. His comical commentary while taking his lessons, and practicing can help anyone see that...
Leader of the Band
Leader of the Band The leader of the band is tired And his eyes are growing old But his blood runs through my instrument And his song is in my soul My life has been a...
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...
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...
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...
Student Engagement on the Field and in the Classroom
I've taught percussion for a full spectrum of programs, from below average to excellent and competitive. There has been a notable difference between each program. The...
Bandroom Tips: Inventory
Every band director I have worked with keeps some kind of music library. They all have a system of cataloging music. What a vast majority of them do not have are...
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...
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...