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Five Action Steps to Help Reduce Director Burnout
SBO Staff | February 26, 2019Five steps which I was inspired to adapt for ensemble directors after reading a blog post by educator Owen Griffith. Read More... -
Starting A Music Booster Organization
SBO Staff | November 16, 2018School music booster organizations can be a tremendous asset to a school music program, but like any group or business, they must be well-planned and organized. Read More... -
How to Use Advocacy Stats to Your Best Advantage
SBO Staff | September 7, 2016With the passage of ESSA - There is not a better time to be providing this article. Read More... -
Music Parents: We Couldn’t Do Without Them!
SBO Staff | February 15, 2016The wonder and virtues of choral parents that support your program... Read More... -
MAC Corner: Festival
Marcia Neel | January 21, 2014Teaching to the Test: Preparing school bands and orchestras for Festival
From time to time, I read articles or hear news stories that focus on teacher evaluation and how “unfair” it really is to judge a teacher by the assessment of his or her students’ work. Each time, I am reminded how much we music educators have been doing just that all along! Hello, “Performance” Assessment – even that term is borrowed from our vernacular.Being more about assessment than many of our fellow educators from the other academic areas, our students learn by “performing”; not necessarily in the concert sense of the word, but more generally in the “learning by doing” concept that is implicit in our instrumental music courses.
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