GUESS WHAT I FOUND!!??  I was browsing Amazon.com the other day and found these cute little 'Wine Watchers Wine Charms'... The...

It's finally finished - my book for teaching shifting in string orchestra!  I started working on this last year because I HATED tea...

This idea isn't totally new..I've heard of teachers using a variety of tubular objects for students to practice straight bowing...su...

I'm sure you've all said it before...."Stop Plucking!"  It's a common plague in the string orchestra classroom.  S...

I've been asked to co-write a method book for beginning strings and it has been fun creating pages and developing a plan for my 'dre...

The orchestra program at the high school where I taught this year is just beginning to grow.  For many years, the orchestra program was ru...

We all realize the importance of consistent practice, so it's hard to think that some students will go home for the summer and not play ...

It always feels so good to finish the last concert of the school year.  Mine was last week.  I usually have my final concert sometime during...

My district provides sample forms for reporting SLO outcomes, but I guess I am a more visual learner because I like to color-code my informa...

TEACHING STUDENTS TO LISTEN Sometimes I stop conducting during a rehearsal and I watch my students.  Do they notice that I have stoppe...

I have written about GradeCam before (www.gradecam.com), but I haven't posted some of my latest ideas about using that resource in a...

Spring time is festival season for my orchestra classes and every day we work extra hard to perfect our pieces.  A couple weeks before fe...