Amused

We discuss approaching if differences in opinion regarding pedagogy in a professional setting.

Our friend George dropped by to talk about building his program and what it was like to have a performance degree in Saxophone and step into an 80% Guitar job.

This we we discuss in identifying core literature to our profession, its musical and pedagogical value and how to implement it into our curriculum.

This we we talk about DOK and questioning strategies to develop better assessments.

It's that time of year: everybody is sick and tired of being sick and tired. We discuss the Dark Evil Vortex of Late September, October and November.

Olin was out of town and we ended up recording on the evening of Halloween, so that dominated our conversation

We bring on our friend Julie to talk about Growth vs. Fixed mindsets and teaching music.

We spiral back to our conversation about teaching music beyond the score and what else we can do to teach comprehensive musicianship.

Sus is gone this week so we get to nerd out about band!

We open the discussion on designing curriculum and units of study beyond the score. Also, Sus talks about how big her room is...

We discuss the benefits of a music supervisor in the district, what they can do and why they are important.

John hijacks the conversation to discuss the concerns he has regarding co-curricular conflicts and performances, and finding solutions.

We discuss our communications with parents and our differingresponsibilities for our Back to School Nights.

We discuss new program items we're taking on this year and how that affects our teaching.

We talk about our first days back, how they're different from years past and what we're focused on this year right out of the gate.

For our first episode back after summer (not all of us were teaching yet), we brought in a friend wo's been teaching a bit longer, but has recently completed a masters degree over summers and is still taking opportunities regularly every summer to grow.

We're taking a break for the summer and will be back at the end of July/beginning of August. We discuss our years in review and our goal for next year: to try to build more of a community and interaction with people who listen to the podcast.

We hinvited our friend Jeff on to talk about putting together a band/choir trip and the lessons we've all learned from that process.

As the year winds down we focus on what we need to do now to ensure success next year.

Veronica was out of town so we decided to have some fun...