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1o Items that I look froward to the first day of school:  “The first day at our school is quickly approaching and I am looking forward to numerous items so that I thought it would be nice to share them as a top ten list for this post: Concert planning. I adore planning for the upcoming concerts with listening and playing through some wonderful songs. Hugs. I teach students as young as three years old and when they arrive to music class, they come in the door smiling, ready to sing and dance, and offering up sweet hugs…”

High five on the first day of school:   So what is really important? How do you start the year?  Here are my top five things new and us “oldie” teachers that give a “high five.”As my students enter the room, I have them sit on the rug, even the eighth graders!  While sitting on the rug, I like to start the year with new things I have learned or found over the summer. It creates a culture of sharing with my students. So, it’s not about all the trips and vacations the students have done, but about learning they did…

Turn off the Tuner for Better Ensemble Intonation: “What does playing in tune really mean?When we consider accurate ensemble intonation, we really are talking about two different skills. First of all we need to be able to match the notes that we play with the notes that others are producing. Technically speaking, when two notes of the same pitch are played together, their frequencies need to match acoustically. In addition to matching unison notes within the ensemble, we need to consider how the notes we play fit into the chords being played by the group…”

Music Education is about more than the music[Local OP-ED]:  “It is always interesting to find those places where two different news stories intersect. Usually, it’s only the start of a larger chain of coincidences.  We reported yesterday on efforts by two Brockville and Area Music and Performing Arts Hall of Fame inductees, Denise Bowes and Joy Goodfellow, to boost music instruction at the elementary level of the Upper Canada District School Board. The women are making their presentation to the public board, but the issue is universal. There has been a decline, in general, in music education at the elementary level in the past generation.  The hall of famers argue this is a quality of education issue, and certainly it is. No educators we have spoken to have contradicted the generally accepted…”

Music education now comes with rights technology: “Licensing and royalty service provider RightsFlow has partnered with the National Association for Music Education, one of the world’s largest arts education organizations, the companies announced Wednesday. Under terms of the agreement, RightsFlow’s online mechanical licensing utility, Limelight, will now be offered for NAfME educator and student members’ use in clearing cover songs for physical, digital, ringtone and interactive streaming usage…”

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