Commentary

In addition to dealing with school budget cuts and how to teach kids remotely and/or in person during this pandemic,...

Chances are good that if you’re a choral director, you already have a choice selection of canons in your bag...

Reinforcement, Reinforcement, Reinforcement!Wouldn’t it be easier if we had signs that we could hold up in front of our students...

Besides everything else, 2020 has brought us a rich new vocabulary of words and phrases we use daily, like “social...

All of us who are involved in teaching the trumpet to players of all ages speak so often about using...

The superhero description “faster than a speeding bullet” belongs to Superman. Let’s consider that phrase as we figuratively turn our...

Several considerations to ensure performance-based assessments yield more than just a data point for accountability.

Although he is little recognized today, the English composer Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852 – 1924) was one of the...

In the current era of testing and accountability, instrumental music educators must document evidence of individual student growth. The majority...

Music can be one of the most powerful ways to bring people together. For many musicians, this realization often comes...

“We already do that in music education.” How many times have you uttered that phrase under your breath as your...

Balancing life and work gets so overwhelming that few band directors take time to critically analyze the macro- and micro-effects...