Kristin Yost has written numerous articles on this blog for the Dollars and Sense category. She has presented many national and local workshops on business issues and her infamous workshop How I Made $100k My First Year as a Piano […]
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I’ve been thinking for months now about how the perfect assignment journal for my students would look. As usual, it took much longer to make it than I anticipated, but I’m very excited with the results and wanted to share
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This month, I have asked my students to fill out a form about what they would like to improve over the next year. I originally just asked them to finish this statement, “This year in piano, I would like to
I’ve been on vacation in the least few weeks consisting of long trips as well as short day trips. It’s been a wonderful time to get away and recharge! One of the things I picked up while we were gone
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At this time last year, there were a series of posts on ComposeCreate.com about products to purchase as you are “Preparing for Fall.” I’m a huge gadget and office supply fan, so I’d like to continue this series and tell
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A comment was left on the Keeping Track of Student Progress – Part 3 article from someone who “reluctantly” tried Google docs. I am not selling anything here, and I really don’t care what people use to track their students’
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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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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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Based on the number of hits and emails I’ve received, Keeping Track of Student Progress is a concern for many of my teaching friends. So, I decided to write a follow up post answering some of your questions about my
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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!
