Your local music store can help you fix more than a broken clarinet. Learning to work effectively with your local retailer can help drive recruitment, offer networking opportunities, and make managing your budget easier. In this episode, I interview Cris Behrens of Summerhays Music about ways stores and teachers can work together.

In the first episode of the Music Ed Mentor Podcast, we share what these fellow educators wished they had known before they started – as well as tips as to how you can leverage their responses to enhance your teaching experience today.