Click to download a printable copy of this article Make-up Lesson Boundaries - Are you enabling bad behavior? You've heard about the importance of setting boundaries, right? About 10 years ago, that phase, "setting boundaries" was all the rage in counseling. So many books were written about it and [...]
$4.99 Studio license Add to Cart New Vertical Music Certificates! Over the last few years, I've received a number of requests for a modern attractive music certificate to award to students at recitals or special events. You might remember that I'm not a huge certificate fan, since they [...]
Last year’s spring recital template was very popular. But several teacher requested that we create a brand new spring recital template where you can also edit the title. So today, I’m excited to announce the release of the 2018 Spring Recital Template you can edit!
Weigh in on the creative of something useful! As you know, we love creating things that help you and your students to flourish! And sometimes it's really helpful to get input from teachers like you before the item is even created. But we have a "thing" about certificates... Over [...]
Piano Policies: 6 Foundational Reasons We Have Them Sometimes it is easy to get in a tizzy about making policy changes when something pushes us to our limit. Conversely, some teachers “set it and forget it,” to the detriment of not making policy changes when needed, or not revising [...]
Click to Download FREE Winter Sports Music Games and Flashcards When the Winter Olympics start on February 9th, your students are going to be soooo motivated by anything that has that spirit of healthy competition, doing your best, and excelling. So, we wanted to create a brand new [...]
Holiday Music Games for Everyone - Includes Free Games It's time to have some holiday fun at your private lessons, group lessons, holiday parties, and in the classroom! So here's a handy list of both free resources and resources that are affordably priced to use in your celebrating! There [...]
New BIG sounding accompaniments for Holiday Rhythm Cups! If you already use Holiday Rhythm Cup Explorations, you already know how much fun your students have while cup-tapping awesome choreography to a holiday piano arrangement. So what's the problem? But the piano arrangement can sound a little sparse when [...]
How Long Does It Take to Learn to Read Music? “Tuh ruh uuuuurrrrr nnnnnnnnn duh.” “Tuh ur nnnnnnnnnnnn duh” I was sitting on the couch on a fall afternoon listening patiently as my kindergartner sounded each each word. Well, I was trying to listen patiently. “Tuuuuuuurrrrrrrr nnnnnnn duh” Ugh. [...]
Tappin' Tuesday - Exciting Classroom Rhythm Cup Idea! Back in January of this year, Renae Misner, a high school music teacher emailed me and said, I have used the first two of your books for my music theory classes this year. They have been a big hit! We called [...]
