Hello and welcome to Band Together, a six-part series exploring how different music teachers foster positive classroom cultures in their band room. In this series, I interview six band teachers and discuss their general views on a positive culture and what strategies they use to implement it. In our sixth and final episode, I finish... Read More

Hello and welcome to Band Together, a six-part series exploring how different music teachers foster positive classroom cultures in their band room. In this series, I interview six band teachers and discuss their general views on a positive culture and what strategies they use to implement it. In this fifth episode, I’m talking with Matt... Read More

Hello and welcome to Band Together, a six-part series exploring how different music teachers foster positive classroom cultures in their band room. In this series, I interview six band teachers and discuss their general views on a positive culture and what strategies they use to implement it. In this fourth episode, I speak with Marissa... Read More

Hello and welcome to Band Together, a six-part series exploring how different music teachers foster positive classroom cultures in their band room. In this series, I interview six band teachers and discuss their general views on a positive culture and what strategies they use to implement it. In this third episode, I’m talking to Rob... Read More

Hello and welcome to Band Together, a six-part series exploring how different music teachers foster positive classroom cultures in their band room. In this second episode, I’m talking to Alexis Silver who teaches at large, urban Manitoba high school that has a diverse demographic of newcomers and immigrants, indigenous and settler Canadians. What I really... Read More

Hello and welcome to Band Together, a six-part series exploring how different music teachers foster positive classroom cultures in their band room. In this series, I interview six band teachers and discuss their general views on a positive culture and what strategies they use to implement it. This first episode features Michael Brandon and we... Read More

In this introductory episode, I lay out the primary objectives of the research and explore the larger questions that we ask of our educators and our arts programs. I also apologize to non-Performing-Arts teachers for playing devil’s advocate at times during the interviews–you’re wonderful educators and I value everything that you do. The show is... Read More