Here’s a FREE printable that will help you get to know your students better and even help you be a more creative teacher. How? Creativity never exists in a vacuum so the more you know about your students, the more creative you can be!
Get To Know Me Teacher, Please?! FREE Resource for Music Teachers Read More »
I’ve been thinking about how dependent I am on so many people. And in spite of the messages we get about dependency, realizing this can have a good impact on our relationships.
How Dependency is a GOOD Thing for Me (and Maybe You?) Read More »
Tears were streaming down my face as I sat on the cold wooden bench at my Baldwin piano. I finally had to admit that I had no idea how to play the rhythm in this piece. I bawled. “I can’t do it!”
A Faustian Rhythm Bargain Read More »
Along with you, I’ve had my share over the years of dealing with highly emotional parents, tiger moms, complaints, unkind emails, and irrational requests. It happens to any teacher, I’m sure. But even empathy from others is not wonderfully helpful when
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Do you ask your students how many days they practiced during the week? Maybe you look in their assignment sheets to see how many days they’ve practiced? Yep, I do too. But I know that the amount of time they practice does
GIVEAWAY! What’s Wrong With the Way We Practice? Read More »
6Â Ways to Get and Stay Creative Sometimes when you read someone’s blog, you get the idea that they have this fantastically neat and perfect life in which they have beautiful, fireside, quiet moments to write a blog post, create an
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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 »
Being a mother of three, it is hard to find large chunks of time to work on anything be it a composition, a blog post, a project, or a lesson plan. Â But I’m often reminded of what my husband told
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Trying something new as a teacher, composer, artist, or entrepreneur? I love this beautiful wisdom from Machiavelli: And it ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain
Want To Change the World or Your Profession? [Inspiration Point] Read More »
There are no words necessary for this thing of beauty and inspiration. i Make a place to sit down. Sit down. Be quiet. You must depend upon affection, reading, knowledge, skill—more of each than you have—inspiration, work, growing older, patience,
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The Great Fuzzy Event of 2026!
You will not believe what we released at this premier event! Four new Fuzzies solos, a new and FREE incentive program, summer ideas, new resources and so much more! Even the replay is super fun!
