Fall Lesson Book Bash In the last post, you learned about the exciting way that Leila Viss is motivating her students to move quickly through and be creative with their lesson books. I already shared this Fall Lesson Book Bash
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I’m always looking for something to motivate my students at the beginning of the year. But like many of you, I am always weighing the pros and cons of external reward systems for piano lessons. I believe that eventually, making
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These tips come from Allen Long, another great teacher I met at the SMU Institute for Piano Teachers. Allen actually studied at SMU and you can learn more about him, his studio, and his amazing singing dog on his website.
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These tips are provided by another SMU Institute attendee Leila Viss, author of the fantastic series on this blog entitled “Adding a Lab to Your Lessons” and the author of the great blog 88pianokeys. See Wendy’s tips and Dorla’s tips from
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Have you ever been to a national piano pedagogy conference? If you have, you know how energizing it can be to your teaching! If you have not, perhaps it’s because you think it might be too expensive. Well, I’d like
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Dorla Aparicio and I had corresponded several times prior to the SMU Institute. I had adored her beautiful website for some time and it was a particular delight to meet her this last week. I asked her to share a
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This is the second article in the “Can’t Teach Without…” series. I have two whiteboards in my studio and I can’t imagine teaching without either of them! Both are magnetic which is important so that I can use all the
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I attended and presented at the SMU Institute for Piano Teachers last week and learned so much! There have been several sessions in which I thought that if I had attended only that session, the whole institute would have been
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As expected, I had a wonderful time with all my old and new friends at the SMU Institute for Piano Teachers. It was such an honor to be invited to share at the Institute and I learned so much from
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This is a wonderful collection of advice from Ira Glass, writer and host of This American Life. It’s great advice to the young songwriters that I trained last week, and even continues to be good advice for me though more
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Merry to Moody:
Holiday music for everyone!
Tired of the usual holiday music?This free webinar is just for you! Lots of new, original, and classic holiday, winter, and seasonal music will wow your students onto the bench! And you'll love the new audience participation piece as well!
