This year, I am asking the residents of one of our local retirement villages to be the judges in our Christmas Cover Art Contest. I made this display for them and asked them to choose their favorite from both the
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Do you ever wonder why there isn’t more excitement about what you think are fun projects in your studio? 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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Just a quick post to let you know about a few Cyber Monday deals related to teaching. Be sure to let me know of others and I’ll add them as I have time. Office Max has a printer for $109 (regular
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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! Well, that’s a
The November issue of the MTNA eJournal is now available to read. In it you’ll find 2 articles: “Bach’s Goldberg Variations Demystified” by Cory Hall and “Handedness in Piano Playing – Biological Principles of Education” by Linda Minasian
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Kristin Yost’s book How I Made $100k My First Year as a Piano Teacher is now on sale at the PianoAccents store. In addition Neeki Bey’s Africa piano book is also on sale for only $11. This book contains 10 classic
I don’t know why this didn’t occur to me until now, but a great way to save money on printing rhythm drills and Rhythm Menagerie would be to print them on card stock and then laminate them! Then, students
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My students are so excited about the Holiday Sight Reading Challenge I issued a few weeks ago. I love that I can use this idea for sight reading or next year for practice, extra credit challenges, etc. It’s a very
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If you have a gmail address, you’ll want to get in on the new Google+ social network! It’s far cleaner and easier to make sense of than some of the other social networks. Plus, there are great “hangout” features which
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I always appreciate when other bloggers link back to this blog. But it’s been a while since I’ve linked back to anyone but Susan Paradis’ wonderful blog, so I wanted to give you some links to a little of what’s
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Merry to Moody:
Holiday music for everyone!
Tired of the usual holiday music?This free webinar is just for you! Lots of new, original, and classic holiday, winter, and seasonal music will wow your students onto the bench! And you'll love the new audience participation piece as well!
