summer break
Students Missing and Getting Behind
This was my first summer teaching groups, and it has been frustrating to say the least. With vacations and such, it just doesn’t work. It’s not even about the money because I can convince the parents to pay no matter what, but then the students/parents…
Lessons After Summer Camp
I received an inquiry from a Mom (referred by a mom of a current student) regarding lessons for her two sons, ages 6 and 8. She asked for evening times because the boys are in camp during the day. My experience with kids in camp…
Assignments for Month-Long Break
Would it work, when there is a month-long break from teaching, to suggest that dedicated students (at the appropriate level) work through Tune Toolkit and The Chord Drill on their own? I have the vaguest recollection from the training on those that “students can work…
Managing the re-entry to lessons after summer
Greetings – School begins today in Canada, and so lessons are resuming after summer break. I anticipate some regression after the summer as not all families were able to come for a few lessons as suggested, and so I welcome any ideas re: how to…
Summer Scheduling Strategies
Dear Friends, This is going to be my first summer teaching SM. I would like to see if any of you could share with us your strategies on handling summer scheduling. It would be very big help to those of us who are still puzzling what…
Parent disappointment Issues – Discontinuing Lessons
Sometimes I want to vent all over Facebook or wherever else how disappointing some parents/students can be, but I dare not say anything, because it seems likely to only work against success in cultivating business. Here, though, seems a safe place for me to vent…
Summer Schedule- Weekly Lessons
I’m a newly licensed Simply Music teacher in CO and am working through how best to launch my studio. I’ve been reading the forum conversation entitled “Summer Dropouts” and am now feeling perplexed as to how to start teaching when it seems that there’s so…
Summer Lessons
What do most of you do in the summer regarding lessons? For my first two Summers, I pretty much just let my general policies hold. Originally, I had a policy of letting people get tuition credit for any absences they told me about in advance,…
Summer Lessons and Retention
What do you do in summer for your students? Any thoughts? I ponder this question every summer and although I usually have a full enough schedule in the summer I always wonder if I could do something differently or better. I’m with you Carrie. I’ve…
Summer Dropouts
I feel like it’s that dreaded time of year when students either take the summer off or stop entirely! It happens at the start of almost every summer, when it seems like I lose at least a quarter of my business! How do other teachers…