Amused

Our friend Jeff just took a new job where he has to teach a string orchestra. He brought his questions to the podcast. Warning: John talks a lot on this one.   Recorded June 9 2019

Time for our grab bag episode at the end of the year. We talk about Olin's Presentation at the CBDNA Athletics Bands Symposium, student recognition and awards and an assortment of other topics along the way. We'll have a few more episodes out before we wrap our season for the summer.   Recorded June 3 2019

This week we talk with one of Olin's graduating students who is going off to teach in a one music teacher town. We discuss not only the challenges of being a first year teacher but also the challenges of teaching in a rural community.   Recorded 5.18.2019

We spend a lot of time advocating on behalf of our students, our programs and for music education in general. Sometimes we need to take a second and look into standing up for and taking care of ourselves as well.

What can you do at the end of the semester after the final concert? What sorts of units can you build into the curriculum that are not performance based to engage your students?   Recorded 5/5/2019

This week we discuss the difference in scope and mission of a class and a program in the performing arts.

Sus has questions about building the program off of an all inclusive class in the fall and several classes split off of that in the spring, with  the focus on bringing community and a sense of belonging to her program.   recorded 4/11/2019

John gets some (more) on air therapy and we talk out some steps moving forward for our programs. Not as much Jazz pedagogy on this episode, but there's sure to be more to come.   Recorded April 7, 2019

Who do you bring in front of your kids for feedback for them and your own teaching? It's Festival Season, so that's on most folks minds, but how else do you engage with feedback for your own teaching and who do you turn to for that? Recorded April 3 2019.

Or should we say "joys." Selena speaks to teaching band orchestra and choir at the middle school level, and how equally challenging and rewarding it is.

Veronica is looking for best practices in a world with so many demands on our kids time.   Recorded 3.17.2019

What values are on display in your audition process? How does it tell the kids what you value and what you are looking for in them. How does it tell them what is important to you?  Recorded 3/10/2019

Anne stops by this week in a crossover episode (we're still building our expanded universe) to talk about a few resources for General Music teachers and some of her experiences developing as a teacher in Texas. For more resources, check out her podcast, the Anacrusic Podcast, which can be found at our network site Mutedpodcasts.com The Holy Names folk song inventory she mentioned can be found here Recorded 3/3/2019

John and Veronica start a discussion about designing or re-designing curriculum over the summer (for units!).   AMusEd is moving to a Wednesday release schedule to better coordinate with our other MuTeD network podcast pals. You can find Everything Band on Mondays, AMusEd on Wednesdays and the Anacrusic Podcast on Thursdays. Source Material will remain on a monthly release for now.

We discuss what we walked away from our state conference with and talk a bit about master's programs and other avenues of professional development.

Recorded 1/13/2019, our first week back from break. We sat down with Brandon to hash out some questions he had about the different ways our schools scheduled classes, as his is going through a change now and he was interested in how other schedules affected ensemble classes.

This is the kickoff episode for our second semester for this season, where we discuss our goals for our teaching in the second semester.   Recorded 1/21/2019

So this one jumped the queue. Dr. Eric Hammer passed away on Monday 1/28/2019 and this podcast session was spent reflecting on our memories of him and how we processed our grief this week making music with our students. Recorded 2/2/2019

This is our last episode before we take our mid-season break. We'll be back with new episodes for the Spring Semester on January 28th.   Recorded 12/16/18

Bobby is here to talk about backwards mapping warm-ups and fundamentals exercises from your concert to make sure there is always time for great teaching and not just rehearsal in your class. It's band focused this time but we swear he'll be back to talk strings.   Recorded 12/9/18.