Commentary

In SBO's March 2021 issue, Melissa Hatheway Lewis invites readers to discover how the Beighton Test can be used to...

How Children of Professional Musicians View the World Today Not all music educators teach in a band room, on the...

In 2006, Google purchased internet upstart YouTube, NASA launched its New Horizons probe aimed at Pluto, and in pop music...

This school year has forced both educators and students to adopt new methods for learning music, both at home and...

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...

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...