All Episodes

Episode 311: If They Don’t Know, We Didn’t Teach

Episode 310: Drawing Your Line in the Sand on AI in the Classroom with Dale Duncan

Episode 309: Cross-Training For Singers with Dr. Nicholas Perna

Episode 308: It’s Just Intonation After All with Ross W. Duffin

Episode 307: Education is Individual. Ensembles are not

Episode 306: Why “What Works for Me?” is the Wrong Question for Teachers

Episode 305: An Invitation to Connection with Jennifer Lucy Cook

Episode 304: You Are the Thing That Teaches with James Jordan

Episode 303: The Tool to Build the Tools-“The Workbench”

Episode 302: Revisiting the Vibrato Question

Episode 301: Is it Competition? Or Comparison? with Dr. Francis Cathlina

Episode 300: The Reason Boys Don’t Sing (That we don’t like to talk about…)

Episode 299: Organizing Your Choir for Day 1

Episode 298: You Can’t Please Everyone All the Time with Russell Scott

Episode 297: Give Them Tools and Let Them Build Part 6 (Tracking Data For Growth)

Episode 296: How to Make a Musician with Allison Wilkinson

Episode 295: Give Them Tools and Let Them Build Part 5 (Vocal Freedom and Function)

Episode 294: Reopening the All State Debate. Sight read, or nah? with David Ritschard

Car Thoughts: Programming Considerations with Chantae Pittman and Clelyn Chapin

Episode 293: Middle School is JUST The Right Age for Rigor with Ryan Lindley

Episode 292: How to Be A Choir Coach with Gary Seighman

Episode 291: Wrestling With AI in the Arts with Beth Philemon

Episode 290: Ethical Choral Gatekeeping with Samuel Grace

Episode 289: Voice Change Isn’t Just for Adolescents with Joanne Bozeman

Episode 288: When we are Forced to Choose…

Episode 287: Give Them Tools and Let Them Build Part 4 (Rhythm)

Episode 286: Give Them Tools and Let Them Build Part 3 (Pitch)

Episode 285: Teach Choir Like Band. And Band Like Choir with Matthew Arau

Episode 284: Is the Ensemble Model Outdated? With Kevin Droe

Episode 283: Beyond the Buzzwords Live at SWACDA

Episode 282: Music Literacy is MORE Than Pushing Buttons

Episode 281: Give Them Tools and Let Them Build Part 2

Episode 280: Give Them Tools and Let Them Build Part 1

Episode 279: Music Ed Podcasts From the Research Perspective with Theresa Hoover

Episode 278: 7 Years of Choralosophy from BEHIND the Mic

Episode 277: Structured Classrooms are Safer with Kevin Lackie

Episode 276: Your Program Depends on the “Beginners” with Bruce Rockwell

Episode 275: The Duality of HBCU Musicians with Dr. Craig Robertson

Episode 274: Work Less Hard than Your Students

Episode 273: Applying the Whole Language of Music

Episode 272: In Service of a Singing Culture with Tori Longdon

How to have “The Perfect Choir”and 2025 Top 10!

Episode 271: Responding to the Challenge in Education with Clelyn Chapin

Episode 270: Balancing Tradition with Innovation with Jocelyn Hagen and Timothy C. Takach

Episode 269: “Classical” Music: An Endangered Species

Episode 268: More Music for More Students with Shane Colquhoun

Episode 267: The Choir Teacher that Sucks with Mitch Al-Ubaidi

Episode 266: Leading with Intention with Dr. Justin Baeder

Episode 265: What’s Next for the Most Dangerous Choir Podcast?

Episode 264: Education’s Race to the Bottom of the Brain Stem

Episode 263: Parents As Key Players in Music Education with Marianne Forman

Episode 262: How to Avoid Making Our Singers Worse

Episode 261: The Art of Programming with Jo-Michael Scheibe

Episode 260: The World is Your Chorister with Jonas Rasmussen

Episode 259: But You Don’t LOOK Like a Conductor with Dr. Nicole Mattfeld

The First Days of Choir Part 6: Installing a Personhood Curriculum

Episode 258: Crafting Identity Through Music with Shruthi Rajasekar

The First Days of Choir Part 5: Voicing, Reflecting and Redirecting

Episode 257: Music is My Language with Ananya Venkateswaran

Episode 256: Teaching Expression from Day One with Craig Hurley and Rebecca Atkins

The First Days of Choir Part 4: Repertoire with Intent

The First Days of Choir Part 3: The Feedback Cyle

Episode 255: Uncovering the Overlooked with Hilary Apfelstadt and Alan Davis

The First Days of Choir Part 2: The Power of Infrastructure

The First Days of Choir Part 1: Introduction and Day 1

Episode 254: Finding Passion in EVERY Note with Elena Sharkova

Episode 253: Car Thoughts with Chris Maunu

Episode 252: Literacy is Agency with Kareem Weaver

Episode 251: Audience Mailbag

Episode 250: Accessible IS Beautiful with Edryn J. Coleman

Episode 249: The 10,000 Foot View of Choral Repertoire with Dennis Shrock

Car Thoughts: Evidence of Engagement is Not Evidence of Learning

Episode 248: What is a Vowel Made Of?

Episode 247: Solving Music Education’s Literacy Crisis with Carol Krueger

Episode 246: Don’t Sleep on Filipino Choral Music with Reagan Paras

Episode 245: Want to Make it on Stage? Take Choir! With Zoie Lee

Episode 244: An Ambassador for African Choirs with Ken Wakia

Episode 243: Seeing With Sound with Re Robinson

Episode 242: Vocal Ped! Don’t Blame Classical Music with Justin Petersen

Episode 241: Instrumental and Vocal Music United! With John Hinkle and Chops Podcast

Episode 240: First, Do No Harm with Megan Farison

Episode 239: Shaping the Future Through Leadership with Jessica Nápoles

Episode 238: The Art of the Consort with Apollo5

Episode 237: The Must Haves in Your Conducting Tool Box with Richard Sparks

Episode 236: Unlocking Student Musicianship with Dictation with Cindy Ellis

Episode 235: The Technique of Expressive Singing with Donald Brinegar

Episode 234: Advocating for the Symphony Chorus with Anthony Blake Clark

Episode 233: A Natural Laboratory for Reconciliation with Ryan Luhrs

Episode 232: Choral Music in Chile with Javiera Lara Salvador

Episode 231: It’s Process AND Product with Andrew Schmidt

Episode 230: Enneagram in Ensembles, Classrooms, Music and Life with Sarah McMahill

Episode 229: 2024 Year in Review. HIGHLIGHTS!

Episode 228: Skip the Education Fads and Stick With What Works with Marcie Samayoa

Episode 227: The Age of Fine Arts Icons is Over with Samuel Andreyev

Episode 226: Breaking Down Vocal Ped with David Jones

Episode 225: Growing Young Musicians in Elementary Music with Chy Billings

Episode 224: What the Heck Even is this Show?

Addressing Concerns From Equity Sings about Choralosophy

Episode 223: Music As Healthcare with Dr. Olapeju Simoyan

Episode 222: Why Your Favorite Music Ed Theory May Be Wrong