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How To Teach Music with Jessica Grant — 314 episodes

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Drum Roll Please! Welcome Back to School with Rhythm and Speech

2

Annual Halfway Goals Review

3

AMLE Institute Insights: Educating Middle School Students

4

Pirates of the Caribbean: Arrangements Inspired by Pop Music for the Classroom

5

Down: Arrangements Inspired by Pop Music for the Classroom

6

Look What You Made Me Do: Arrangements Inspired by Pop Music for the Classroom

7

Paint It Black: Arrangements Inspired by Pop Music for the Classroom

8

Five Tips for Finding and Creating Pop Song Arrangements to Use in Your Classroom

9

Feeling the Sunday Scaries...Again

10

Five Classroom Procedures to Review in the New Year

11

Reviewing 2023 and Setting 2024

12

2023 Holiday Gift Guide

13

Centers in the Music Room with Becca Davis

14

SEL in the Music Classroom with Alessandra Santaguida

15

Peer Leadership in the Music Classroom

16

Dark Nights and Mysterious Tunes: Songs that Embrace the Spirit of Halloween

17

Sour Notes to Sweet Success: Strategies for What To Do When A Class Doesn't Go The Way You Planned

18

Nurturing Musical Growth: Identifying and Supporting Struggling Musicians

19

Nurturing Musical Growth: Identifying and Supporting Excellent Musicians

20

The Midlife Perspective: How Age and Experience Enhance Teaching Part II

21

The Midlife Perspective: How Age and Experience Enhance Teaching Part I

22

Celebrate Fall with Vivaldi's Autumn: 1st Movement

23

Iconic Composers with Emi Ferguson

24

Transitioning, Building, Thriving: Note to Self with Adrian Gordon

25

F-Flat Learn Platform with Jessica Peresta

26

Preparing for Success: Clint Hardy's Back-to-School Strategies

27

What I Wish I'd Known My First Year of Teaching

28

Illustrated Children's Book Release: William's Song

29

All Things Planners with Danny McKay

30

Let's Talk ChatGPT

31

Implementing What You've Learned in Levels Courses

32

Halfway Point Goals Review for 2023

33

The Summer Blueprint: Grade Level Planning (Part III)

34

The Summer Blueprint: Long Range Lesson Planning (Part II)

35

The Summer Blueprint: Map Out Your Curriculum (Part I)

36

Exclusive Sneak Peek: Chapter 4 from Our New Book Release

37

Teacher Health and Wellness: Insights from the New Book Release

38

How to Wind Down for Summer

39

Exhausterwhelmulated

40

Wrapping Up the School Year

41

Fairy Tale Drumming and Speech Project

42

Musical Calligram Student Project

43

Things I Learned in the Woods

44

Planning on Purpose with Allison Russo

45

What's Saving My Life Right Now

46

Minecraft Musical Artist House Challenge

47

Elemental Movement with Ashley Brown Woodside

48

How to Pace Your Lesson Content

49

What To Do With The Last Five Minutes

50

How to Differentiate Music Instruction with Bryson Tarbet

51

How to Prepare for Your Musical Theatre Performance

52

How to Structure Musical Theatre Rehearsals

53

How to Prepare a Musical

54

How to Present Music Teacher Workshops and Conference Sessions

55

Rebranding: New Name, Same Music Ed Content

56

How to Tut: Creative Movement with Hands and Arms

57

How to Create an Orff Arrangement of a Pop Song

58

How to Process an Orff Barred Instrument Arrangement

59

How to Introduce a Song

60

How to Process a Song

61

Reviewing 2022 and Setting 2023

62

Part II: Highlights from your Favorite Episodes in 2022

63

Part I: Highlights from your Favorite Episodes in 2022

64

Three December Activities Your Students Will Love

65

Asking for Help, Talking to Parents, and Having Difficult Conversations with Victoria Boler

66

How to Survive Teaching in December with Beth Duhon

67

AOSA Conference Recap

68

General Music with Dr. Virginia Davis

69

Art, Music and Connection with Kathryn Patricia

70

The Myth of Doing it All with Dr. Sarah Gulish

71

Canva in the Music Classroom with Janice Wintermyer

72

Music Education with Franklin Willis

73

Peloton with Becky Barrett

74

Soundtrap Podcasting with Becky Barrett

75

Shed the Music with Bob Habersat

76

Personal Look Into The Confident Music Educator Course with Michelle Pish

77

The Confident Music Educator Course: Registration for Cohort II is open!

78

Theresa Hoover: Empowering Ensembles with Tech

79

Building Your Instrumentarium: Xylophones, Drums, Recorders, and Ukuleles

80

Organizing Your Google Drive

81

Middle School Choir with Jodi Coke

82

Decorating your Music Classroom with the Older Student in Mind

83

The Rockstar Planner with Suzanne Paulinski

84

Skincare and Make-up with Lindsey Blair

85

Prepare for Fall While Still Enjoying Summer

86

2022 Goals Review (Halfway Point)

87

Take What You Need This Summer

88

Summer Tour in Your Hometown

89

Favorite Books of 2022

90

Four Forms of Motivation

91

Summertime Meals and Snacks

92

Simplify Your Summer: Lunch Menus and Fun List

93

Elemental Music with Kate Bright

94

Activities and Lessons for the End of the Year

95

The Confident Music Educator Course

96

Orff and Kodály Can be BFFs

97

Anthony Molinaro and the Dalcroze Approach in the Classroom

98

Musikinesis with Monica Dale

99

200th Episode Celebration

100

Let's Talk Ukuleles

101

Student Choice and Feedback with Christina Reardon

102

Weighing the Teaching Decision for Next Year

103

The Taubman Approach with Edna Golandsky

104

Walking Through Grief With Those Around You

105

Hard Day of Teaching? Try These Four Things.

106

Spotify Playlist Listening Lesson for Women's History Month

107

Singing Games with Amy Knous

108

Five Songs to Teach Your Older Students

109

Five Ways to Get Your Older Students Singing

110

Playlist Organization and Spotify Listening Activity

111

Video Game Music Project

112

A Dash of Hope and a Dose of Reality

113

Reviewing 2021 and Setting 2022

114

Highlights From Your Favorite Episodes of 2021

115

Five Things You Should Try This Holiday Season

116

How to Survive Teaching the Last Week Before Break

117

The Grinch Percussion Lesson

118

Two December Lesson Ideas

119

Afternoon Ti Holiday Gift Guide

120

Pop Music in the Classroom: Motives, Hooks, Sampling, and Form

121

Popular Music in the Classroom with Kat Reinhert

122

Practice Pie with Nicola Cantan

123

Seesaw with Melissa Graham

124

Chrome Music Lab and Soundtrap: From Instruments to Paper to Digital

125

Uncover Your Song: Cover Songs with Eoin Hughes

126

Technology in the Music Classroom with Erika Moser

127

Singing with Pentatonic Scales

128

Pentatonic Scales with Barred Instruments

129

Recorders and the Pentatonic Scale

130

Pentatonic Scales

131

Take the Pressure Off

132

Classroom Rules

133

Teaching Advice You Need to Hear

134

Phonetic Beats with Faith Rodgers

135

Back to School Organization: Music Edition

136

Back to School Organization: Classroom Edition

137

Back to School Organization: Home Edition

138

2021 Goals Check-In

139

Sleep

140

Working Out: With or Without the Peloton App

141

The Four R's of Summer: Rejuvenate, Renew, Reflect, Redirect

142

Parenting in the Middle Years (Elementary-Middle School)

143

Parenting in the Young Years (Raising 0-4 year olds)

144

Healthy Summer Favorites

145

3 Topics, 3 Thoughts, 3 Prompts

146

Hold That Fermata...

147

Curriculum Design with Nyssa Brown Part II

148

Curriculum Design with Nyssa Brown Part I

149

Virtual Xylophones with Brent Geyer

150

Five Priorities for Maintaining Energy and Effective Teaching for the Remainder of the Year

151

Self Care with Beth Duhon Pt 2

152

Teacher Self-Care with Beth Duhon Pt. One

153

A Teen's Perspective of Covid: Riley's Story

154

A Tween's Perspective of Covid: Julia's Story

155

Book Chapter Preview: Enhancing with Technology

156

The Language of Music with Michelle Margiotta

157

A Place in the Staff with Jen Rafferty

158

Make a Note with Jessica Peresta

159

Book Launch Day!

160

Books I'm Loving, Listing, and Launching

161

Composing with Students: Lesson Processes and Ideas You Can Use

162

Incremental Changes Make a Difference

163

Soundtrap Rap Project

164

Yearly Goals: Reviewing 2020 and Setting 2021

165

Three Things 2020 Taught Me That I Didn't Want to Learn

166

Rest in the Chaos

167

Sequencing Rhythmic Concepts

168

Carol of the Bells

169

Pear Deck and Rhythm Writing

170

Rhythm Systems: Ways to Speak and Count

171

Can We Just Be Honest and Say It's Hard

172

Soundtrap Mini Project

173

Soundtrap Project #4: Student Podcast Project

174

Soundtrap Lesson #3: Found Sounds Project

175

Soundtrap Project #2: Fictional Character Theme

176

Soundtrap Lesson #1: Poem

177

What's on Your Cart?

178

Teaching Virtual & In-Person Simultaneously

179

Worry and Anxiety with a mix of Faith and Encouragement with Jessica Peresta

180

The Ten Things Saving My Life Right Now

181

No Teacher Tired Like Covid Teaching Tired

182

Making Music with Bill Henry and Bruce Fite

183

First Day Back

184

No Singing or Instruments. So Now What?

185

Nine Tech Tools I Plan to Use This Year

186

Reentry

187

Accepting and Planning for the Unexpected

188

Have To: Get To (Thanks Andy Speer)

189

Cooking the Magnolia Table Cookbooks

190

2020 Goal Review: Three Ways to Look at Your Yearly Goals

191

Listening In: Racism and Injustice

192

Active Listening through Storytelling and Classical Music with Robert Franz

193

What's Next

194

Reflection #5: Looking at the Fall

195

Reflection #4: Today

196

Reflection #3: Mental, Emotional, and Physical Health

197

Reflection #2: Summer

198

Reflection #1: Virtual Teaching

199

Three Things to Encourage You as You Finish The Year Well

200

Shake the Dirt with Michael Arterberry

201

Music Genre Madness Lesson Plan

202

Musical Literacy and Repertoire Selection in the Choral Setting with Dr. Carol Krueger

203

Middle School Choir with Danielle Larrick

204

General Music with Danielle Larrick

205

Making the Switch from Elementary Music to Middle School Choir with Sara Rond

206

Teaching Rhythmic Concepts Virtually

207

Play Parties and Folk Songs with Kathy Kuddes

208

Folk Song Collections with Kathy Kuddes

209

Three Things I've Learned From Virtual Lesson Planning

210

Teaching Choir Amidst COVID-19 with Beth Philemon

211

Kodály Series: Master Copies with Kristin Vogt

212

Books for All Ages with Angie Wood

213

Here I Am, There You Are

214

Orff Approach with Chris Judah-Lauder

215

Orff and Modern Band with Martina Vasil

216

Singing within the Orff Approach

217

Barred Instruments within the Orff Approach

218

Recorder Within the Orff Approach

219

Drumming Within the Orff Approach

220

Marimba Ensembles with Walt Hampton

221

Music Learning Theory with Dr. Kathy Liperote

222

Adaptive Music Education with Kelly Surette

223

Using Podcasting and Online Sites to Support Teacher and Student Learning

224

Setting (or Resetting) the Tone of Your Classroom for the New Year

225

Yearly Goals: Reviewing 2019 and Setting 2020

226

Highlights From Your Favorite 2019 Episodes

227

Sunday Sip: Here's to More

228

The Christmas Story

229

Sunday Sip: Hurry Up and Wait

230

Holiday Baking with Glenys Klem and Pam Salada

231

Christmas Music I Love

232

The Nutcracker

233

Sunday Sip: Prayer

234

Teacher Advent Countdown

235

Sunday Sip: Last 30ish Days

236

Designing Your Conference Experience

237

What Should I Pack? Essentials to Bring to Conferences

238

Sunday Sip: Thanksgiving Priorities

239

Teaching with Laryngitis

240

Sunday Sip: Three Words

241

Ten Singing Canons

242

Sunday Sip - Consider Yourself Hugged

243

Merging the Kodály and Orff Approaches in your Classroom

244

Sunday Sip: Gratitude

245

Three Things I'd Like to Thank Orff for

246

Sunday Sip: Patience

247

Three Things I'd like to thank Kodály for

248

Sunday Sip: Affirmations

249

Dreadfully Good Halloween Activities for the Music Classroom

250

Sunday Sip: Small Beginnings

251

Teacher Well Being with Jackie Sunga

252

Classical Music at Home and at School with RaeAnna Goss

253

E046 Do-Re-Mi

254

E045 Self Care during the School Year

255

E044 Enough

256

E043 Kindergarten and Kodály with Lauren Bain

257

E042 ESL and Kodály with Lauren Bain

258

E041 Mentoring Student Teachers with Tonya McKenna

259

E040 Technology and the ISTE Conference with Amanda Neuschafer and Marcela Uribe

260

E039 Composition with Lane Harder

261

E038 Pedagogy, Sequencing, and Musical Approaches with Anne Mileski

262

E037 Back in the Groove: Back to School Basics

263

E036 Revisiting Your Yearly Goals

264

E035 Grief and Loss / Anxiety and Depression with Katy Moyer

265

E034 Counseling with Katy Moyer

266

E033 Mindset for Health and Fitness with Jaime Turner

267

E032 Musical Health

268

E031 Telling Your Story with Karen Dustman

269

E30 Anxiety and Depression

270

E029 Mental Health

271

E028 Part II: Vocal Health with Darlene Jebson

272

E028 Part I: Middle and High School with Darlene Jebson

273

E027 Health with Megan Lyons

274

E026 Spiritual Health

275

E025 Detox with Kelly Cullen

276

E024 Health and Nutrition with Kelly Cullen

277

Bonus: Starting Summer

278

E023 Part II: Darla Meek

279

E023 Part I: Darla Meek

280

E022 with Drue Bullington

281

Bonus: End of Year Ideas

282

E021 Google Sites Project

283

E020 What Your Administrator Wants You To Know with Dr. Julie McLeod

284

E019 Early Childhood Music with Jennifer Ross

285

E018 Insights From a First Year Teacher with Catherine Patterson

286

E017 Part-Singing with Georgia Newlin

287

E016 Song Collecting with Becca Buck

288

Bonus - Less Than a Mile To Go

289

E015 Composition and High School Music with Evan Ramos

290

E014 Part II- Dr. Ryan Fisher and the Male Singing Voice

291

E014 Part I- Dr. Ryan Fisher and the Male Singing Voice

292

E013 Recorders with Natasha Thurmon

293

E012 Part II - Dalcroze with Terry Boyarsky

294

E012 Part I- Dalcroze with Terry Boyarsky

295

E011 Musikinesis with Monica Dale

296

E010 Part II: Interview with Victoria Boler

297

E010 Part I: Interview with Victoria Boler

298

Bonus: One Piece, Three Approaches

299

E009 Part III - Orff

300

E009 Part II- Kodaly

301

E009 Part I- Dalcroze

302

E008 Nothing Better Than a Good Book

303

E007: How to Build Your Best Teacher Wardrobe

304

Bonus: Trunk Club Experience - A New Way to Shop

305

E006: Songworks with Vicky Suarez

306

Bonus: Extra Boost of Motivation

307

E005: Finding Motivation in the Drab Days of Winter

308

E004: Resourceful Resources for Late Elementary and Middle School

309

E003: Resourceful Resources for Pre-K to Elementary

310

Bonus: Goal Reviewing 2018 and Setting 2019

311

Bonus: Rested and Rejuvenated

312

E001: Making the Most of Your Classroom Space

313

E002: Time

314

E000: Let's Start at the Very Beginning