Meet Your Makers – Marching Footwear Made in the USA: Gateway Shoes LLC byMike Lawson August 14, 2015 0 Gateway Shoes has been manufacturing footwear in Missouri for over 30 years. The company started making children's shoes for the ...
Clean the Drill and Dial In the Mix: Five Tips for Optimizing your Field Audio byMike Lawson August 14, 2015 0 Audio has quickly become a necessity in marching band, and I feel that we all have a love/hate relationship with ...
SBO essay contest 2015 byMike Lawson August 12, 2015 0 Click to viewFifteen years ago SCHOOL BAND AND ORCHESTRAlaunched a scholarship essay program designed to further support music education in ...
Perspective: Perpetuating the Species, Survival of the Fittest, or Self-Preservation … byMike Lawson July 24, 2015 0 As I was putting this annual issue together, historically called the “Band Director’s Survival Guide,” it was obvious that this ...
Are You Looking For a Miracle In Your Life? byMike Lawson July 24, 2015 0 There are a lot of great things about running a magazine publishing company. For one thing, it gives you a ...
Survival Tip One – Who Moved My Band Director? Suggestions for Accepting Change byMike Lawson July 24, 2015 0 Congratulations! You’ve been a hot shot your whole life. Going to music school wasn’t the question, which instrument you were ...
Survival Tip Two – Setting Your Band’s Expectations Before the Levy Breaks….. byMike Lawson July 24, 2015 0 Let’s put ourselves in that moment where we get the emergency call. Our community is in danger from the rising ...
2015 SBO Scholarship Essay Contest Winners byMike Lawson July 24, 2015 0 How Does Your Music Class Prepare You For Life” was the theme of SBO’s 15th annual scholarship essay contents. Several ...
Survival Tip Three – Dealing with Inequality in Your District byMike Lawson July 24, 2015 0 In America, Schools Are Not Equal: A View From Another SideOver my 40 years in public education, I have seen ...
Survival Tip Four – Working with Beginners in Percussion! byMike Lawson July 24, 2015 0 Over the years, I have received several emails that are essentially asking for advice for the same problem: beginner percussionists ...
Survival Tip Five – Surviving The Warm Up: Technology to Enhance the Fun in Fundamentals! byMike Lawson July 24, 2015 0 Our previous three-part recording series on recording band rehearsals provided a solid foundation for recording in class and in concert. ...
Springtime School Budget Season – The Most Complicated Time of the Year byMike Lawson July 24, 2015 0 As a music education advocate and strategist, I find the spring school budget season my most worrisome time of the year, ...