December 2025 The Road Ahead for Music and Arts Ed: Keeping it Human bySBO+ Contributor December 29, 2025
5 Smart Ideas to Help Retain (This Year’s) Beginners May 2, 2022 0 The S.M.A.R.T. approach focuses instruction and experience around success, modeling, activities, reflection, and trust as these five elements seem to...
Introduction to Case-making and Systems Change in Arts & Cultural Education byLaurie Schell March 18, 2022 0 I am a lifetime advocate for music and arts education. In more recent years - especially since 2020 - as the...
The Impact of a Great Teacher – Student Relationship byDr. Charles T. Menghini February 23, 2022 0 I’m at that point in life when I look back and try to figure out who those people were that...
Be the Good News! byLaurie Schell February 23, 2022 0 Boy, do we need some good news. The world is out of sorts. It’s hard to go through a day...
Forest and the Trees: Perspectives in Music Education Advocacy byLaurie Schell January 19, 2022 0 What is your point of view in arts education advocacy? Are you the arts educator, working everyday to advance students’...
Programming to Get the Most Out of Your Concert Assessment Concert Cycle December 18, 2021 0 “Concert and Sight-Reading Evaluation,” “Concert Contest,” “Large Group Evaluation,” whatever name it goes by in your state, many directors find...
Because Shift Happens… A Brave, New World byLaurie Schell January 14, 2022 0 There comes a time for honest reflection in the life of every music educator and music education program. Students are...
Keystones in Music Advocacy byLaurie Schell November 12, 2021 0 Photo by Andreas Schantl on Unsplash In the natural world, ecosystems may be as small as a tide pool or as vast as...
Sustainability in Music and Arts Education byLaurie Schell October 9, 2021 0 Photo by Fauzan Saari on Unsplash Regardless of your role in the music and arts education ecosystem, sustainability is the proverbial grand prize. ...
MAC Corner – Just Have a Year! byMike Lawson October 9, 2021 0 We’re back! The band halls and rehearsal rooms are filled with the sounds of the start of the school year....
Music & School Culture is more than Friday Night Lights byLaurie Schell September 6, 2021 0 As teachers and families head back to school for the 2021-22 school year, there is still much uncertainty, feelings of...
Rebuilding the Culture byDr. Charles T. Menghini August 13, 2021 0 Hopefully we are coming out of the pandemic and school bells will not ring hollow as classes begin in the...