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 [...]

An NPR Radio Broadcast Series By Korva Coleman

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Performance Today, November 17, 2004 – In the third installment of our music education series, NPR’s Korva Coleman visits an urban at-risk school that was in danger of failing. Baltimore’s Roland Park Elementary is an older urban school, [...]

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 [...]

Yes, folks, it’s that time of year again. The time when I get a “vacation” from my family life to travel to the Springs and network with people I only see once a year at most at the annual State Music Conference. This year I’m lucky to get to stay at the beautiful Broadmoor resort [...]

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” [...]

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 [...]