Category: Music Education

  • 10 Ways to Make Your Students’ Day

    10 Ways to Make Your Students’ Day

    Students look forward to learning from teachers who are excited to teach them. When your students come to your class, your body language and interaction set the tone for the rehearsal. Are you starting your class in a way that excites kids to learn? Students take the lead from you, and they make up their…

  • Engage Parents as Partners

    Engage Parents as Partners

    “After 15 years working at Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson (CTJ) High School in San Antonio and an equal number on a drum corps staff, I have learned a few key points regarding the value and importance of engaging parent and alumni support. Click the link below to read the full article on the Yahama…

  • Help Students Learn From Failure

    Help Students Learn From Failure

    “How can we help our students embrace and bounce back from failures? How can we use failure to grow and continuously improve? Lifting our students from difficult moments is one of our many jobs as educators. Often, our personal encounters with setbacks and how we were able to bounce back can benefit our students as…

  • Delayed Gratification: When Students Get Tired, Teach Them to Rest, Not Quit

    Delayed Gratification: When Students Get Tired, Teach Them to Rest, Not Quit

    “Look at the big picture and help your students get through tough times because they will learn that delayed gratification isn’t easy, but it’s worth it. Sometimes students don’t like band. Sometimes parents don’t like band. And, as odd as it can seem, I know there are times when I struggle to find joy in…

  • Football and Band: A Match Made in Heaven?

    Football and Band: A Match Made in Heaven?

    “Use the relationship between your athletic and spirit organizations to strengthen your campus community. Look at football games as a chance to showcase your music program while supporting and enriching the school’s culture. Pep rallies, playoffs and athletic events are a fantastic time to show the band’s versatility. Here are some of my strategies, suggestions…

  • Daily Diet of Fundamentals

    Daily Diet of Fundamentals

    “A musician’s daily diet or daily drill provides all the necessary basics for performing on an instrument successfully.” For the full article, follow the link below to the YAMAHA Educator Suite Professional Development Series.

  • ETA Clinics & Professional Development

    ETA Clinics & Professional Development

    I’m excited to partner with Educational Travel Adventures to offer band clinics, coaching, and professional development sessions. I would love to be able to work with you and your band in 2022-23 or present a session as part of a professional development offering at your campus. You can learn more on ETA’s New Clinician Website. …

  • Johnson Senior to tour the World with National Youth Orchestra [NEISD]

    Johnson Senior to tour the World with National Youth Orchestra [NEISD]

    “Johnson High School senior Jake Glaser has big plans after graduation. In a few weeks, he’ll travel the world with his clarinet alongside some of the top musicians in the country.”

  • And the award goes to… [NEISD]

    And the award goes to… [NEISD]

    “Johnson High School  Band Director Jarrett Lipman and Roan Forest Elementary School Music Teacher Matthew Trevino have won the Country Music Association (CMA) Foundation Teachers of Excellence award.”

  • KENS5 News [Article]

    KENS5 News [Article]

    Johnson High School musicians’ music risk scores | Kids Who Make SA Great