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 […]
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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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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by Kristin Yost Are you tired of not making enough money, especially in the summer? Or are you perpetually frustrated because you think you should be making more, especially for all of the hours you put in? Well, letʼs figure
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by Kristin Yost What does it mean to be modern anyway? Immediately what comes to my mind are concrete floors, white walls and uncomfortable chairs. I suppose this is directly related to museums (of modern art) but on a practical
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Got (enough) Piano Teaching Money? This is a guest post in our new series Dollars and Sense, a series helping piano teachers deal with financial concerns. Kristin K. Yost is our guest and will be writing more articles for this
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After reading Keeping Student Numbers Up in a Down Economy, many teacher wrote to me asking for more information about the surveys that Kristin encouraged teachers to take. I asked Kristin to write a follow-up article with sample questions for
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Today’s guest post comes from Kristin Yost, founder and executive director of the Centre for Musical Minds in Frisco, Texas. You might also recognize her name from her popular workshop session entitled, “How I made $100,000 my first year as
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I chuckled a few times when I read this Job Description for the 21st Century Piano Teacher by Gayle Kowalchyk of Alfred Music. In this article, she describes the journey she took that led her to teaching and then postulated
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Inevitably, every few months, the subject of giving or not giving make up piano lessons comes up on all of the piano teaching forums. Every teacher certainly has the freedom to choose what is best for their studio and personal
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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!
