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- Repertoire Selection. The Hardest Thing About Teaching Band.
- Ways To Keep Your Percussionists Focused, Engaged and Happy.
- Is Your Band Out Of Tune? Try These Tips. Warning – It’s Not a Quick Fix
- You Spend How Much Time On Fundamentals
- Four Strategies For Working With a Small Jazz Band
- 13 Top Mistakes Directors Make
- Score Study Revisited – Make Lesson Planning Easier
- Rethinking the Score: Radical Grading Approaches in Band Education
- Marching Band Is Needed Now More Than Ever Before
- Spicing Up Rehearsals: Flavorful Techniques for a Better Band Rehearsal
- Teaching in the Trenches: How to Survive the Stress Bubble
- It’s Easier Than You Think To Land That Next Teaching Job
- Teaching the Heterogeneous Beginning Band: The One Person Show
- Cockroaches in the Coffee, Tablecloths, and Music
- When A Life Is Lost
- A Master’s Degree for less than $9,000
- Creating a Great Culture In Your School Band
- Advice For Leading Your First High School Parade
- You’re Not Going To Reach Every Student Every Time
- Why Are The Flutes Better Behaved Than The Drummers
- I Know Exactly How To Fail at Work Life Balance. I Burned Out – TWICE!!!!I
- Christmas Is The Worst Time To Have a Concert
- The Impact of Memoirs (Guest Post)
- Practice Tips – Plus THE BIG LIE About Practicing
- Good Tone – The Number 1 Thing You Should Focus On
- Classroom Discipline Techniques Guaranteed To Work (most of the time)
- Teachers – Do This The First Week of School
- Unveiling Genius: The Best Music Teacher- Her Hidden Talent
- Moses Could Have Taken The Easy Way Out
- He Hated The Japanese People With a Passion
- The Great Yogi Berra Tries To Explain Jazz
- Why I Love The Saxophone
- Benefits of Learning an Instrument
- Take This Job and Love It
- What It (Really) Means to be Anti-Racist
- Get Started Writing a Book
- That’s My Orchestra Teacher
- I Wanted To Build My Mom a Treehouse
- Teaching Great Concert Etiquette to the Audience and Performers
- Where Have All The Cowboys Gone?
- Advice – Take It With a Grain of Salt
- The Story Project – Funny stories of growing up Italian
- The Student Led Rehearsal – How To Teach It
- The American Dream Is Still Alive
- Big Boys DO Cry – and You’re in Good Company
- She Taught Us How To Think – He Didn’t
- I Was Bullied Throughout School, but in 6th Grade I Became a Bully
- In 6th Grade I Almost Didn’t Join Band
- In One Moment He Stole My Innocence
- Sleeping Under a Bridge? No, But Homeless Nonetheless
- FREE Chocolate Chip Cookies! It Doesn’t Get Better Than That.
- A Dog Named Snoopy, Peeing on Trees, Eating Meatballs
- Believe It Or Not, I Say “Thank God I’m Boring!”
- Teachers: Powerful Forces for Good or Bad
- The brother I never knew
- Teachers – Your Dedication Makes a Difference. You Matter!
- 8 Ways To Mix Up the Method Book
- I Wasn’t Always This Way – And I Get Better With Age
- The Beatles Had It Right – All You Need is Love
- I Said To Her, “You could never disappoint me!”
- Why I Love Colorado
- Keeping Up With The Times – a no win scenario?
- Peeing on Trees and Other Early Childhood Memories
- Wait Until You See What His Mom Gave Him for Breakfast
- 4 Tips to Being a Better Band Director Using the Acronym BAND
- How To Be A Great Student
- With one proclamation, the President would have my unending support
- I’m Glad My Marching Band Didn’t Make it to State
- Don’t Waste Your Time On New Year’s Resolutions
- Just Say No! (So You Can Say Yes). It’s Life-Changing!
- Teens Today Get a Bad Rap – One They Don’t Deserve
- At What Age Does a Boy Become a Man
- 5 Ways To Teach Kids About Gender
- Teens – How To Be More Productive & Accomplish Your Goals
- Little Known Italian Secret Predicts Marital Success
- I Want To Be Treated Like an Adult
- Prayer Has Never Been Removed from Schools.
- How To Pay For College Without Debt and Without Worry
- I Wasn’t Always This Way – Once was a Sad Boy, now a Joyful Man
- Choosing Quality Band Literature at the Appropriate Level
- Are you burned out? Take this easy test. Make changes.
- 11 Ways to Lose (and Keep) a Band Student
- Has someone you know had a stroke? Some advice
- I Was An Awkward, Middle School Boy
- Little Known Italian Secret Predicts Marital Success
- 7 (Fun) Rules for Losing Weight and Staying Healthy
- Do You Believe Everything You Hear On The News
- 4 Tips to Help you be a Better Band Director using the Acronym BAND.
- What If She Had Not Decided To Be My Grandmother
- 10 Steps to Writing a Book – For Free
- How Did I Get To Be Dad’s Favorite Son
- Hashtags Don’t Change The World – You Do
- The Sheep, The Sheepdogs and the Wolves. Which one are you?
- Don’t Confuse Being Famous With Making Money
- Was My 1st Job a Coincidence? I don’t think so.
- 9 traits that GREAT students have
- How To Practice Effectively
- A Farmer’s Life – Tone Poem
- Education Reimagined
- I Thought I Was Going To Jail
- The Day I Stole my Mom’s Identity
- It was recommended that we abort one of our kids
- I Became A Bully. I Felt Powerful. I Felt Strong. It Was Wrong.
- The First (and only) Time I Picked up a Prostitute
- 5 Great Band Directors and How They Influenced Me
- Everything You Need To Know to Write and Self-Publish a Book
- A Love Letter to my Fellow Title I Teachers
- Life on Four Paws – A Dog’s Perspective
- Deutschland – The experience of a lifetime
- Category: Education