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Well folks, looks like I’ve done it again. I went and got shingles after supposedly reactivating the Herpes Zoster virus in my spine due to stress. I suppose everyone being sick at school and me having a low immune system anyway didn’t help. So here I am reminding those who teach [...]

Ok, here’s my $.02 on this video:
Sure, music helps math and science scores go up, so the studies show. But, where are the studies that say taking math and science will help with one’s musicianship? Why can’t we be the nation that competes with other nations to have the best, highly regarded ARTISTS AND MUSICIANS [...]

So, what we do, what I do anyway, is get the kids all “riled up” according to one classroom teacher who will remain unnamed. We all know that; its the nature of the beast so to speak. And thus begs the question, how do we teach creativity, movement and freedom of expression in the elementary [...]

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 [...]

Wow. After I wrote that Title for this post, I thought of something totally different. So If you are here because you Googled “Viagra”, I’m not going that way!
No, this post is my typical gripe about performances in the elementary music setting, the fact that I have to do 3 per year if I want [...]

I have never had such a hard time dealing with colleagues than I have this year surrounding the change to our school schedule. A little background first. It all started when our school found out we were under enrollment and in debt over $70k. We needed to cut a position in order to “pay back” [...]