Started teaching the first of my Backwards Designed units today (How to Blues- 5th grade) and I thought I’d reflect on the experience. Up ’til now I’ve just been puttering along, re-designing each “unit”(or rather set of fun, but otherwise meaningless, activities) that I have scrapped together and taught since the beginning of the year. [...]

So I have been in the process of uploading documents into my Media Gallery for future posting and came across a “paper” that I had done for my independent study in “Web Resources for the General Music Educator”. I designed this course in 2003 to fulfill my requirements for a music technology minor at CU-Boulder [...]

Conference time has come and gone. I’m back in the classroom on a snowy January. Testing pressure is mounting and kids are going crazy already. I am frantic to find time to fit in curriculum and performance material (which should be one in the same, but inevitably end up different somehow).  And I just don’t [...]

Welcome to urbanmusiceducation.org! I am in the process of re-designing the site in a blog format as the former php format was getting stale and unusable. After careful evaluation of the site, I came to the realization that the site needed major overhauling and a vision in order to survive otherwise it needed to get [...]