by Kristin Yost Studies of business success over time have shown that companies that emphasizegoals in addition to making money succeed better and survive longer than companieswhose sole motivation is monetary. Rhonda Abrams, The Successful Business Plan; Secrets & Strategies […]
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Well, today was our 2011 spring recital! The students did a wonderful job and it was fun seeing and hearing them play so musically. What a difference one year can make in a students’ playing! I thought you might enjoy
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In the last year, I’ve read several good articles about how to attend a national music conference at budget prices. But, I have to admit that I had not thought of or seen anything like what I read today: Get
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by Kristin Yost During the spring I find myself inundated with makeup lesson requests, summer scheduling flakiness and dilemmas, plus families suffering from general scheduling fatigue. Oh yeah, and baseball has started, swimming is gearing up again, cheerleading, and I‘m
The Keeping Track of Student Progress and Keeping Track of Student Progress Part 2 posts evidently strick a resonant chord with teachers, so I’m going to continue answering your questions in this post, this time talking about Google docs, tables
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Bradley Sowash, a guest writer for this blog, has released a series of videos on playing and teaching jazz called Jazz Piano for Beginners. As is typical of his presentations, he not only talks about his great jazz pieces for
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During April and May, I know many teachers take time to revise their piano policies. So I thought I’d let you know how this process usually works for me and find out what works for you as well. As I
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The April MTNA e-Journal is out and the first paragraph from the editor contains an excellent idea! Patricia Powell, e-Journal Committee Editor writes, May is National Sight-Saving Month, and in my independent piano studio, we are gearing up for our
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by Kristin Yost Have you ever been so busy with parents, students, technology and more students where you wished you just had three minutes to use the restroom or you forgot to pay your phone bill and could use five
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The Latin phrase sic transit gloria mundi means ‘thus passes the glory of the world’. Watts shortened it because his subject ‘was not so much the passing of the glory of the world but rather the end of all human
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Perk Up Practice!
Autumn & Halloween Music
Grab your pumpkin spice latte and listen to composers talk about how to teach their newest autumn & Halloween music! Join hundreds of creative teachers for an uplifting time of encouragement & learning! New MACs released at this webinar!
