Benjamin Koenig has been in education for 8 years, and he is currently the K-6th grade music teacher at Delaware Elementary School in Indiana. The music program at Delaware Elementary has performed with celebrities and Grammy-award winning artists and was featured in USA Today after a performance video went viral.

On this Episode:

• Benjamin talks about the type of teacher he is- a kid at heart and finding the fun in education.
• Benjamin shares how relationships are built in music programs even when their time is limited.
• Benjamin gives examples of relationship integration in music class.
• Kevin and Benjamin discuss the advantages of building relationships with music.
• Benjamin talks to Kevin about time and how the purpose of relationship building has to be a priority.

Tweetable Quote:

“Ninety percent of what I teach is relationships and ten percent is music. Now, the music’s there in the content but it’s so blended in with the relationship building now, it’s hard to tell the difference.” - Benjamin Koenig

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