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Creating a Music Classroom Where Everyone Can Succeed
Dr. David Pope | August 20, 2023Welcome to the new school year! If you are like other teachers around the country, you are disappointed summer break is ending. However, you are filled with excitement to start a new school year and meet your new students. In instrumental music classrooms, new students can be novice players who are learning viola, saxophone, or […] Read More... -
Recruitment and Retention Tips
Dr. Charles T. Menghini | June 11, 2023As soon as school is out for the summer, use this 10-step approach to having your best recruitment year yet. 1. If not already done, meet with your administrator and set the dates for the 2023-24 recruitment season. 2. Contact your music dealer and inform them of your dates and discuss ways they can assist […] Read More... -
Conducting Your Way to Better Classroom Management
Dr. Sarah Labovitz | February 19, 2023In 1977, educational theorist Jacob Kounin published Discipline and Group Management in Classrooms. According to his observations, there was not a noticeable difference between how good and bad teachers responded to disruptive students in their classrooms. He hypothesized a proactive approach to discipline and instruction is what separated the more successful ones from their peers […] Read More... -
The Ten Commandments of Programming
Cheryl Floyd | December 15, 2022Repertoire selection is among the most important respon- Thou shalt program pop music sparingly. Of course, sibilities for all band, choir, and orchestra music educators. there are certain times when pop music is appropriate We have the freedom to make choices based on our groups’ such as pep rallies, football games, spring concerts, abilities, preferences, and […] Read More... -
5 Smart Ideas to Help Retain (This Year’s) Beginners
Marcia Neel | April 2, 2022The S.M.A.R.T. approach focuses instruction and experience around success, modeling, activities, reflection, and trust as these five elements seem to bring our newbies back for more. Success Our beginners really want to be successful; their parents want them to be successful, and of course, we also want our students to be successful so what must […] Read More... -
The Impact of a Great Teacher – Student Relationship
Dr. Charles T. Menghini | February 23, 2022I’m at that point in life when I look back and try to figure out who those people were that helped me make it along the way. Those people who were responsible for my growth and development as a young trumpet player, student, teacher, husband and human being. In taking inventory, I find my parents […] Read More... -
Programming to Get the Most Out of Your Concert Assessment Concert Cycle
Sarah Labovitz | December 18, 2021“Concert and Sight-Reading Evaluation,” “Concert Contest,” “Large Group Evaluation,” whatever name it goes by in your state, many directors find themselves programming for a capstone performance during the spring in front of a panel of judges. Whether the result of this performance is a rating or a ranking, it is often enough to make our […] Read More... -
Rebuilding the Culture
Dr. Charles T. Menghini | August 13, 2021Hopefully we are coming out of the pandemic and school bells will not ring hollow as classes begin in the fall. Despite some upticks in Covid variants, the news is positive as more and more reports indicate students and teachers will be back in school. For those who have been in class during this time, […] Read More... -
Covid-19 Relief Funding Includes Support for Music Education
Robert B. Morrison and Marcia Neel | April 6, 2021Covid-19 relief funds have been set aside to support education. Since the passage of the CARES Act in 2020, there have been two subsequent relief acts passed. All three provide increasing amounts of support through the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Funds (ESSER I, II, and III). Read More... -
Planning to Teach in a Post-Pandemic World
SBO Staff | February 12, 2021There was news about a virus that was permeating our world early in 2020, but it was not until March 11, 2020, when the National Basketball Association’s Utah Jazz star Rudy Gobert tested positive that things got serious. Soon the NBA shut down its season, the NCAA canceled March Madness and those schools who had […] Read More... -
Planning to Teach in a Post-Pandemic World
Dr. Charles T. Menghini | February 6, 2021Dr. Charles T. Menghini explains what should be front and center in your band program as music educators across the country prepare for what comes after the COVID-19 pandemic. Read More... -
Continuing the Journey
SBO Staff | August 19, 2020If you have not already done so, it is time to develop a plan – and perhaps several plans – because just as sure as we “zig,” things will “zag.” Read More...
