Archives for Jun,2016

Harvard recently published a study about teachers who text parents a brief message about improvements that a student can make. Continuous feedback is so powerful that it improves drop out rates and will increase the likelihood of improvement substantially....

One of the most powerful ways to improve your studio is to connect your studio. Bringing together students through technology, events and recitals is a prime way to develop your studio. The current generation being raised is Generation Z and they are...

There is a poster that says “90% of our students practice 1 hour or more per day”. I think the poster hopes to promote social pressure and show what other people “do”. But at the same time it’s also a guilt trip, because...

Starting out as a music teacher with only a handful of students, I thought it would be smart to reward the hardest working students to attract more of those students. In my first year, I gave out rewards all the time – student of the month and other...

One of the best conversations in the education world at the moment is whether teachers should lead student development or if students should lead. The US public education system had its last systemic overhaul during the reign of Horace Mann back in the...

I love performing. I spent so many years focusing on crafting my ability and now I’m passing on that educational experience to my students. When I first started, I was shocked to know that students were used to performing 1 or 2 times a year. What...

Shifting my career from a concert pianist to a music educator conditioned me with several counter-intuitive insights. When I began teaching, I read everything I could possibly read on music education and followed with experiments to see what worked and...