MAC Corner

Welcome to the new school year! If you are like other teachers around the country, you are disappointed summer break...

As soon as school is out for the summer, use this 10-step approach to having your best recruitment year yet....

In 1977, educational theorist Jacob Kounin published Discipline and Group Management in Classrooms. According to his observations, there was not...

Repertoire selection is among the most important respon- Thou shalt program pop music sparingly. Of course, sibilities for all band,...

The S.M.A.R.T. approach focuses instruction and experience around success, modeling, activities, reflection, and trust as these five elements seem to...

I’m at that point in life when I look back and try to figure out who those people were that...

“Concert and Sight-Reading Evaluation,” “Concert Contest,” “Large Group Evaluation,” whatever name it goes by in your state, many directors find...

We’re back! The band halls and rehearsal rooms are filled with the sounds of the start of the school year....

Hopefully we are coming out of the pandemic and school bells will not ring hollow as classes begin in the...

Covid-19 relief funds have been set aside to support education. Since the passage of the CARES Act in 2020, there...

There was news about a virus that was permeating our world early in 2020, but it was not until March...

Dr. Charles T. Menghini explains what should be front and center in your band program as music educators across the...