Peer mentoring seems like a simple enough concept but identifying ways it can manifest itself practically in popular music education classrooms may prove to be a bit more challenging for...
SBO+: Well-known author and frequent SBO+ contributor Harvey Rachlin provides this article on the important role music plays in developing and sustaining our national identity. In conversations with Harvey about...
A key aspect of all music programs is recruitment and retention. We are often pressured to “fill the seats,” but that doesn’t matter much if they don’t stay filled with...
Have you ever felt you needed to be someone you’re not to earn respect and admiration? I know I have. There were times in my life when I pretended to...
Start big (what’s the title?) and dig deeper at each reading.* What’s the composer trying to say? Too often we skip over what they havea told us in their notes....
