November 2025 Three Characteristics of Leadership – Lessons for Music Teachers byTom Palmatier November 21, 2025
Perspective: Another Year Older, and a New One’s Just Begun byMike Lawson September 19, 2022 0 A new year is always a promising time when we can think about all of the ways we do what...
NAMM Foundation Keeps Music Education Strong at 2016 NAMM Show byMike Lawson December 18, 2015 0 NAMM Foundation invites music teachers, college students studying music, and the entire music industry to join efforts to keep music...
Perspective: What A Long, Strange Year It’s Been… byMike Lawson December 11, 2015 0 It’s hard to believe that I am already sending my thirteenth issue of SBO to the printer since taking over...
Getting the Most Out of Your Festival Experience bySBO Staff September 19, 2022 0 As soon as I saw my students taking a nap outside the auditorium, I knew we were in trouble.
Learning Music: In Praise of Print bySBO Staff September 19, 2022 0 The look of my first piano book remains sharp in my memory.
Perspective: Of Sticks, Stones, and Glass Houses byMike Lawson November 12, 2015 0 This issue of SBO combines our College Search and Career Guide, along with our annual focus on percussion. I interviewed...
Learning Music: In Praise of Print byMike Lawson November 11, 2015 0 I grew up in a home with a grand piano. Although today a trim electric keyboard or other nifty digital...
Perspective: Where Have I Heard this Before? byMike Lawson September 19, 2022 0 I spent September 11th this year at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center, listening to the Nashville Symphony performances of two very...
Music Education Curriculum in Schools: ‘It’ Is Something Worth Fighting For byMike Lawson October 22, 2015 0 You know it when you see “it,” and when you don’t. A school that has “it” is different than one...
Some Try to Tell Me Thoughts They Cannot Defend byMike Lawson September 4, 2015 0 As I was driving my high school senior to school today, he was telling me that his garage band was...
When Mickey Mouse Teaches Band Academics byMike Lawson September 4, 2015 0 Now for all you “macho” band directors out there, you may not be too impressed with a lot of “Mickey...
The Times They Are A-Changin’ byMike Lawson August 14, 2015 0 It was a very busy month for me, starting out with a trip to Ft. Collins, CO to attend the...