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May 222 min read

Increase music practice with self-assessments

As the end of the school year approaches, many of us are preparing to downshift into a more relaxed summer session. This natural...

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May 12 min read

Helping Your Child with Performance Anxiety

Helping an anxious child with performance anxiety can be distressing for a parent. You want to relieve their fears, and you want the...

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Apr 242 min read

Summer Self-Care for the Private Teacher

Summer break is almost here. As you work hard to prepare your students for end-of-year recitals, auditions, or music exams, don’t forget...

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Apr 182 min read

Is it Time to Stop Private Lessons?

Happy Spring! We welcome the nice weather, beautiful flowers and thoughts of summer vacation just around the corner. Though spring is...

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Apr 42 min read

How to Re-energize Students for a Spring Performance

How to re-energize your students to perform their best on the recital as summer vacation nears

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Mar 143 min read

5 Ways to Help your Students Be Confident Performers

Spring recital season is upon us, and we all want to help our students have the best performance possible. Here are 5 things I do in the...

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Jan 183 min read

How to teach for (rather than at) our students

We've all done it - gotten so frustrated, tired, or just plain bored in a music class or lesson that we accidentally become less of a...

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