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Four music teachers, all in their first five years of teaching, discuss current issues in music education; offer resources, tips, and tricks; and catalogue their growth and missteps made as...
Sorry for ghosting everyone for a year. We're back, but we're not. This is the last episode of the podcast. Series Finale. We decided that t...
We navigate the last few weeks of school with an increasingly urgent need for the year to be over. Recorded 5.22.2022
We chat about how things are actually returning to the way they were before, and reflect honestly on how we navigated the challenges of this...
Veroinca asks the question: Can you still build a shiny, award winning program while still maintaining healthy boundaries in your life? S8E3...
We talk about the logistics of showcasing the entirety of the music program, collaborating with others in your department and how to get in...
It's been a while since we were all together so our focus meanders a bit, but our original conversations focuses on rewarding students who a...
Olin is out this week so the secondary school teachers discuss how the tail is wagging the dog when it comes to how elective enrollment is d...
How do you thread the needle celebrating your top students without leaving your other ensembles behind? We have our friend Jeff Kumagai on w...
Sus is out this week due to tech week for the musical, Olin is still in the middle of the madness. Veronica has one very long week til sprin...
Welcome to the spring. Things are going fine. We're sure. 100% Everything is fine. S8E24 Recorded 3/6/2022
We continue our conversation regarding what a professional trjectory looks like for us, our previous discussion focused on what it wasn't. S...
What does a music educator's "professional trajectory" look like? This year we discuss a bit of difference in perspective on this topic betw...
The gang discusses their strategies for setting one's self up for success so as not to dread Sunday evening or Monday morning. S8E20 Recorde...
As we are normalizing our expectations of ourselves and our students we're encountering a lot of frustration and need to stop and remind our...
We talk programming and how we might feel guilty for imposing our own bucket lists on our students. Recorded 1/20/22
This time we have the right file. Oops. We're back from break to a January that looks a little different than December. S8E18 Recorded 1/6/2...
Forgive the zoom blips this week, we had to edit off of one track, old school. This week we deal with being caught in the middle of public s...
Guess who's back, back again? Concerts. S8E16 Recorded 12/5/21
Our topic meandered a bit on this episode, but it centered around anxiety (ours and our students'), understanding it and growing with it. S8...
Hi Folks, this one jumps the queue because it's topical, so you get Episode 15 this week and then 14 next week. Time travel is rad. Enjoy ou...
Or "learning to share the burden of project management" if you prefer. Sus has caught herself taking on too much in her role of co-overseein...
John is anxious and panicking about the future (what else is new). What are you doing to ensure that your ensembles survive past the graduat...
This week Olin, Sus and Veronica talk the perennial favorite topic of scheduling, looking forward and anticipating challenges that crop up a...
What happens when you need to change course in the middle of your semester? We find out. When is rigidity in programming an structure an ass...
So, it's not 2019, remember? Some of us *cough cough* are running up against the consequences of planning like it was. Let us know if you fo...
How do you rank what needs to get done when everything is urgent, and important, and on fire (sometimes literally on the west coast). We tal...
In the wake of Olin's band camp (spoilers: it was great) Sus, Olin and Veronica discuss strategies to keep focused intensity in rehearsals....
The Beavs have Band Camp this week and Olin is out, so we brought on some special guests to help make sure we stayed serious and professiona...
We discuss the ways students accommodations have challenged our teaching and helped us grow and develop more comprehensive strategies that w...
We're still talking about COVID. Sorry. Really doubling down on what music education looks like in Fall 2021, trying to figure out best prac...
This week John sits down with Ron Sikes, host the Muted Network's newest member podcast, Jazz Chat . We talk mostly about the rhythm section...
This week We talk about our goals coming out (fingers crossed) of the pandemic and some of the lessons we learned from last year. S2E8 Recor...
This is a music education podcast. We swear. It's a lot of fun to be back. S8E1 recorded August 10 2021
As we finish our school year, we do a bit of reflection and goal setting for the summer. Trying to look forward instead of backwards after o...
This week the gang discusses not just being behind in terms of pedagogy, but also how all planning has been put off this year, and how many...
This week we have our friend and mentor Dr. Ruth Brittin on from the University of the Pacific to talk about how the COVID crisis is affecti...
The gang discusses the pros and cons f trying to hold a spring concert this year. S7E30 Recorded April 21 2021
It's Veronica's first week back on campus after over a year away. The gang is tired, the gang has the giggles, we're all nearing the home st...
Paull Kimball comes on to talk about his journey through Kodály and his homebrew sightsinging progression that changed the way he teaches el...
Family episodes with the four of us are rare theses days, so we're trying to make time once a month to check in with each other. This week w...
We sit down with Russ Gavin from Stanford to talk about the Jacktrip project. This was recorded via the Jacktrip platform live and in sync....
This week we have Stephanie on as a guest to talk about getting an elementary music program off the ground in her district. S7E25Recorded 3/...
Enrollment crises and pressure on kids to take more "academic" classes has us on the back foot this week and discussing how to promote the v...
This week we discuss putting the definition of success into our students hands for student engagement and ownership of the ensemble and mate...
Sus, Olin and Veronica discuss the challenges of retention and recruitment when all the social aspects of ensembles that draw kids in seem a...
This week, we bring on Tyson Wooters, a leadership consultant to talk shop about designing a leadership course. Adapted from his bio on Lead...
This episode we talk with Dr. Kaitlin Bove about doing the work to find and perform music by underrepresented composers while remembering th...
This week we have Dr. Steve Zielke on to talk choir and specifically laughter in rehearsal. Recorded 2/4/2020 S7E19
Sus is out for the week, so John, Veronica and Olin regress to their true selves and talk shop for band in 2021 (let's be honest, it's not m...
We've all experienced a lot of challenges this year, this week we sit down to figure out where we need to grow and where we're focusing our...