From start to finish in this podcast, Girl Conductor - Ms. Maria A. Ellis - offers her wisdom, passion, and sheer joy in teaching and learning! Maria shares how she starts classes the first time she meets students with the intention of building relationships and knowing her students’ musical preferences. She tells her own story about being rejected from a music education training program - and how she was able to get in only 3 months later.  And she offers each of us some sound advice about how to be the most successful, influential music teachers and human beings we can be. Maria is a true cheerleader for all students and teachers, and her passion is contagious.

Show notes - musicedforward.com/podcast/19