This year, I am asking the residents of one of our local retirement villages to be the judges in our Christmas Cover Art Contest. Â I made this display for them and asked them to choose their favorite from both the […]
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Do you ever wonder why there isn’t more excitement about what you think are fun projects in your studio? Â Shouldn’t art projects, composing their own music, sight-reading challenges, etc. be thrilling for students? I’m reading a book called Using Technology
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Just a quick post to let you know about a few Cyber Monday deals related to teaching. Be sure to let me know of others and I’ll add them as I have time. Office Max has a printer for $109 (regular
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Susan Johannessen on Facebook was mentioning how quickly the “Sticky Hands” disappear from her prize box. I asked her where she got these wonderful little toys and she said they were at the $2 stores in Australia! Â Well, that’s a
The November issue of the MTNA eJournal is now available to read. Â In it you’ll find 2 articles: “Bach’s Goldberg Variations Demystified” by Cory Hall and “Handedness in Piano Playing – Biological Principles of Education” by Linda Minasian
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Kristin Yost’s book How I Made $100k My First Year as a Piano Teacher is now on sale at the PianoAccents store.  In addition Neeki Bey’s Africa piano book is also on sale for only $11.  This book contains 10 classic
I don’t know why this didn’t occur to me until now, but a great way to save money on printing rhythm drills and Rhythm Menagerie would be to print them on card stock and then laminate them! Â Then, students
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My students are so excited about the Holiday Sight Reading Challenge I issued a few weeks ago. I love that I can use this idea for sight reading or next year for practice, extra credit challenges, etc. It’s a very
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If you have a gmail address, you’ll want to get in on the new Google+ social network! Â It’s far cleaner and easier to make sense of than some of the other social networks. Â Plus, there are great “hangout” features which
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I always appreciate when other bloggers link back to this blog. But it’s been a while since I’ve linked back to anyone but Susan Paradis’ wonderful blog, so I wanted to give you some links to a little of what’s
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