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How Parents can Change Their Family Tree Through Their Child's Music Education ·
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The Music Parents' Guide. A Survival Kit for the New Music Parent. How Parents can Change Their Family Tree Through Their Child’s Music Education. What if everyone believed that there was no such thing as natural talent and inborn gifts? Great, but instead. It’s more intriguing to buy into the myth of inborn gifts and beliefs that certain people are. Why do we believe in innate gifts? First off, it’s much easier to convince ourselves that we were. Impact their family’s “gene pool” and c...There is no evi...
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A Message of Music to the Superintendent of Atlanta Public Schools ·
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The Music Parents' Guide. A Survival Kit for the New Music Parent. A Message of Music to the Superintendent of Atlanta Public Schools. Dear Dr. Carstarphen,. I appreciate you addressing recent rumors stating that Atlanta Public Schools would be eliminating all music programs next school year. While it is understandable that you have the all-too-common fiscal pressures mounting in your schools, I believe that your cuts are short sighted and certainly not in the best of interest of children. Even thoug...
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The Music Education (or Creativity) Achievement Gap in America, and How We Can Begin to Fix It ·
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The Music Parents' Guide. A Survival Kit for the New Music Parent. The Music Education (or Creativity) Achievement Gap in America, and How We Can Begin to Fix It. What causes this immediate handicapping of students’ potential as musicians and creative people? Lack of creative scheduling in schools. A “now go home and practice” mentality. Students will become frustrated and want to quit. This is especially the case with students from low-income families, who will fall behind very quickly if it’s...As I me...
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4 Ways Parents Can Ensure Their Child Sticks with Instrumental Music When They Graduate to Middle School ·
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The Music Parents' Guide. A Survival Kit for the New Music Parent. 4 Ways Parents Can Ensure Their Child Sticks with Instrumental Music When They Graduate to Middle School. Graduating from one to school to the next is both an exciting and crazy time, to say the least. The changes that are occurring biologically, socially, and academically in children are enough to make parents’ heads spin. With a change in school comes a lot of unanswered questions:. What will the schedule be like? Parents of students gr...
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How to Give Ownership of Practicing a Musical Instrument to Your Child ·
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The Music Parents' Guide. A Survival Kit for the New Music Parent. How to Give Ownership of Practicing a Musical Instrument to Your Child. Racticing a musical instrument regularly is tough for most kids. Mean that when your child is giving you a hard time about practicing it means that they hate music and want to quit. They just don’t like practicing, and that’s okay…for now. Give your child ownership of their own learning. What is “ownership of learning”? Ideally, practice should happen every day. I...
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An End-of-Year Letter to New Music Parents ·
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The Music Parents' Guide. A Survival Kit for the New Music Parent. An End-of-Year Letter to New Music Parents. As our school year winds down, I would like to congratulate you on completing the first year of your child’s instrumental music study! Their failures throughout their musical journey thus far. As lucky as your child is to have had musical instrument instruction in school this year, let’s be clear about their time on task: If your child attended every weekly small group lesson for the entir...
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The Music Parents' Guide · Page 2 of 6 · A Survival Kit for the New Music Parent
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The Music Parents' Guide. A Survival Kit for the New Music Parent. Why Scheduling More Performances Will Save Your Child’s Musical Life (and Your Music Program). We are a few months into a new school year. Has your child had a performance yet? When students open their instrument case for the first time, they are excited to begin their musical journey. They also want to become good at playing their … [Continue reading]. Are We Really Teaching Students to be Creative When We Teach the Arts in Schools?
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June 2015 · The Music Parents' Guide
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The Music Parents' Guide. A Survival Kit for the New Music Parent. Archives for June 2015. Why Everyone Must Continue to “Defend” Music Education (Using Any Means Necessary). I ran across a piece last week on Huffington Post. On the surface, there is a lot to agree with in an “art for art’s sake” argument, but with today’s educational and political landscape, this argument alone will not get us to where we want to be: music as a core part of every child’s school day. The Superintendent of Atlanta Public ...
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3 Things Parents Must Tell Their Children When They Begin a Musical Instrument ·
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The Music Parents' Guide. A Survival Kit for the New Music Parent. 3 Things Parents Must Tell Their Children When They Begin a Musical Instrument. Hopefully your child will begin a musical instrument through their school music program. If so, when they bring home their instrument for the first time, it is more than just an exciting day…. It is an opportunity. 8230;Perhaps one of the greatest opportunities in your child’s life thus far. That will last a lifetime. Psychological traits that include. There a...
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