holidays
Playing for Peeps -Fun Easter Contest
This is a fun way to encourage students to play their songs for people in a causal way… to get low-stress performance experience, to feel more encouraged & motivated by their playing when new people hear them play, and as an extra by-product maybe even…
Restoring Students’ Momentum After a Break
Do you have a particular thing that you do the beginning of the year to get everyone focused again? There are three times a year when my studio has a break from lessons. Spring break is a week, summer break is 3 weeks, and Christmas…
Teaching on Mondays
When my policy is that I teach weekly throughout the year, and that lessons are by default to be considered to take place even on national holidays and other days the local school districts might take off, Mondays have been a particular and consistent source…