One of the purposes of this blog is to help teachers encourage student creativity, improvisation and composition. You can find practice articles on how to teach composition in the Composition for Kids category as well as a comprehensive list of […]
New Competitions for Student Composers! Read More »
In the Stress-free Business Practices for your Studio workshops, I talk about how important it is to continue marketing to our current families. This has become especially evident to me as I am now that I am a mother of
Why Market When I Don’t Need New Students? Read More »
The National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy was wonderful this year! Every teacher that I talked to spoke about how much they learned and benefitted from attending. I was busy in meetings, giving workshops, and just connecting with the teachers that
What a Wonderful World (NCKP follow-up) Read More »
I’ve just finished presenting Part 1 of Stress-free Business Practices at the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy and I’ll be presenting Part 2 on Saturday at 11:30. I told all of the fabulous teachers that attended that I would write
NCKP Followup: Stress Free-Practices Links Read More »
MTNA has negotiated with Office Depot to give it’s members some amazing deals on office supplies and copies! Here are just a few of them: Black and white copies for 2.5 cents Color copies for 22 cents Binding, folding, and
Copies for 2.5 cents? Yes Please! Read More »
Back in March, I posted this article on how to take unscheduled time off (for when you are sick, your kids are sick, you have jury duty, knee surgery, maternity leave, etc.) and not experience a change in your monthly
More on Snow Days, Jury Duty, Knee Surgery…Unscheduled Time Off Read More »
This is a very funny and educational guide to the 12 tone row. I think you’ll really like it! The example using “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” (starting at point 9:00) is particularly effective in resonating even with the less musically
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Every time I go to a piano pedagogy conference, there are several times during the conference that I think, “I MUST remember to bring that next time!” But alas, I don’t usually write it down and soon forget that list
What You Must Take to a Conference Read More »
We have over 30 of you wonderful teachers coming to the ComposeCreate® dinner at NCKP on July 25th. It’s going to be wonderful to meet every one of you and I can’t wait! If you have not done so already,
UPDATE: Dinner Together at NCKP Read More »
I’ve been reading a lot about disciplines and the need to pro-actively train our minds so that our natural inclination is to do the best and the right thing. I love the way Tchaikovsky talks about discipline as it relates
Meeting Inspiration Halfway? Read More »
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