Using Technology for Easy Sub Plans distance learning educational tips first year lesson planning teacher tips technology

      Teaching during a pandemic challenged music educators everywhere as our typical lessons and activities had to be reimagined for so many situations. Asynchronous learning home? No instruments available? Singing is not allowed?  I feel like the questions far exceeded the...

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Back To School Design Using Canva back to school distance learning teacher tips

      Ready or not! It is back to school time! Even if you were working hard to avoid looking at the calendar, it is hard to enter any store and not see all those gleaming new school supplies right at the front!  As much as it always seems too early to see school supplies...

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The 3 Biggest Lessons 2020 Taught Us distance learning music teacher journey music teachers

 

      I think we should all take a collective sigh of relief: The 2020 school year is finally over! We made it! I don’t think I’ve talked to a single teacher who isn’t glad to put this year behind us. Pandemic teaching is something none of us ever expected,...

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Get Your Digital Space Ready for a New School Year distance learning music class resources music teachers

      At the end of a school year, most teachers are dreaming of the days when alarm clocks do not have to be set and coffee can be drunk in a leisurely fashion. But, just as we dream of summer, many of us are also guilty of planning and preparing for the next year long before...

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33 | Where do we go from here? distance learning show notes that music podcast

 

 


 

This week we’re gonna keep it real. This year has been so hard.

      In this week’s episode I reflect on my last couple of months teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic.

      My music room has been silent for 83 days. During...

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