by Marcia Vahl, NCTM Judging opportunities may take us into judging state piano exams, contests, Piano Guild, Federation Junior Festivals, or composition contests. No matter what the event, writing a great piano critique starts with considering who will read it. […]
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The subject of motivation always interests me. Here’s a great post by Tim Topham summarizing the book on motivation called Drive. Â He mentions a few of the studies conducted on motivation including one on preschoolers and one on adults. Â The
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About a month ago, I purchased the Eggspert Quizzing System and began using it in my studio. Since then, I have not stopped raving about how my students and I love it! Â Many of you have also purchased the inexpensive
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Over the years, I’ve had my students critique each other a number of times. Â Mostly its been for their performances of pieces in our group Performance Classes. We’ve used a variety of materials to do this from the Performance Class
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I’m gearing up for my Christmas party and have received numerous requests for a post on Christmas activities, so I wanted to give you a list. Be sure to subscribe to email updates so you can get all the extra
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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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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 next set of courses offered at the Piano Teachers School begin October 15th.  The courses are taught by Kristin Yost who has written a number of posts for the Dollars and Sense part of the ComposeCreate® blog.  These courses
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We finished our week of Piano Camp a few weeks ago and I am still flying high with excitement and energy from my students! Â If you missed the little video we made of our camp adventures, please take just 2
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I just came back from our KMTA conference where one of the college faculty on a panel answered the question, “How do you prepare a student who wants to study music?” with a “Well, I honestly don’t know if I
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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!
