Highly Effective Band Room

Teaching rhythmic reading should be the same as reading words. If you have ever struggled with number counting and want a better solution. Check out this episode on using Takadimi to vocalize rhythms.

Do you teach pitch reading as an essential skill in your music class? Find out how I approach this in an innovative way in this episode. Use this to help build your collaborative music department.

This is the third podcast on building a collaborative music department. Today, learn all about developing a common music department vocabulary for music literacy.

In this episode, learn how finding inspiration from your music colleagues can help develop your collaborative music department.

Can you imagine a school where band, choir, and orchestra teachers and students work together toward common goals? Well it can be a reality for you. Listen to learn how to begin. Stay tuned for more episodes to light your way to a collaborative music department.

Not every successful rehearsal is based on mastery. Sometimes planning for purposeful failure is just as important.

Why is it that sometimes we meet a new learner and assume they can’t do something before we as what the do know? Listen to hear my take on the subject.

What might happen in your band if your students knew exactly how to master your curriculum on the first attempt at assessment? Listen to find out.

Have you ever attended a conference, taken what you learned back to school and had it fail? Find out why.

Welcome to the highly Effective Band Room Podcast! I hope you check back often to hear my innovative and creative approach to teaching performance music using research-based best-practice strategies.