Music in Our Schools Month is a great time to examine how you can teach every student to play a musical instrument. It's doable and it's imperative. This post examines my own experiences as a 4th grader and argues for...
Good music programs teach students more than music, as this video shows. March is "Music in Our Schools Month." What is your school doing to spotlight it?...
Having a piano lab in your school would be great, but may not be possible, Now, technology has opened additional avenues for piano instruction. Students can utilize classroom sets of iPads, available in many schools, as an instrument and as...
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down “happy.” They...
One of the great “school” movies of all times is Mr. Holland’s Opus. Those who have seen it cannot cannot forget the finale. Budget cuts were scheduled to eliminate the program this man had worked his whole career to build....
I look forward to an America which will reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in business or statecraft. I look forward to an America which will steadily raise the standards of artistic accomplishment and which will steadily...
In a blog all about saving time and getting organized, one of the questions we must keep ever present is, “Save time for what?” The answers differ for each of us. For many of us, the answer is that we...
One of the great “school” movies of all times is Mr. Holland’s Opus. Those who have seen it cannot cannot forget the finale. Budget cuts were scheduled to eliminate the program this man had worked his whole career to build....
A friend of mine, Wayne Washam, often said, “There are some kids the band needs, and there are some kids who need the band.” This video spotlights a young man who started as one and became the other. It is...
I look forward to an America which will reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in business or statecraft. I look forward to an America which will steadily raise the standards of artistic accomplishment and which will steadily...