We're posting this on Thursday, July 10, 2025, and it's the second of six episodes designed to help you get ready for the new school year. We'll have new episodes Monday and Thursday for the next two weeks, so we hope you'll keep an eye out for those conversations on July 14th, 17th, 21st, and 24th. 

On the 14th and 17th we'll be discussing instrument placement, and the following week we'll look at everything you need to know to have a successful rental meeting.

Today, Nick Averwater continues his conversation about the time between the first day of school, and the day students get their instruments. Our guests include Lauren Duncan from Center Hill High School in Olive Branch, MS, Matt Pickering from Lewisburg Middle School in Hernando, MS, and Joel Roberts from South Marshall Middle School in Benton, KY.

Our conversation was recorded June 26, 2025. We've broken it up into two episodes, and this is part two.

Here's a link to the interview we did with Rebecca Lowry in August, 2020. On that page there are links to additional information about Rebecca's work