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Blog post on ways to improve the design of a classroom to better serve students.

EastWest Sounds is one of the most popular sources for digital instruments. The website includes an online store, community blogs, news and updates, and customer support.

The Talent Code is a blog centered website by the published author of a book of the same name, Daniel Coyle. The Talent Code is a book that talks about the importance of proper practice and its link to success. The purpose of this website is to share ideas of effective strategies for successful practice that correlate with the book. The ideas that are shared have a direct connection for practice for students both at home and in the performing arts classroom.

This is an excellent blog post detailing the steps for utilizing and more specifically creating a Kahoot game. Kahoot can be used for reviewing test questions, instrument families, pitch names, or rhythmic examples. This article details tips and tricks for creating a game for your class.

Clinician and Trumpet player Chris Clark discusses the challenges of creating a middle school lead trumpet player for Jazz Band. He includes strategies and exercises to help develop such a player

A blog I love dedicated to thoughts on the performing musician. Great resource with approaches to use as an individual performer and information to present to students.

Dr. Noa Kageyama is a sport and performance psychologist with a music background.  He provides very interesting and introspective articles to help people improve themselves as people and performers, and offers a course to teach you how to overcome performance anxiety.  Great resource for people who struggle with performing.

How To Overcome Stage Fright & Performance Anxiety

This a rhythm game that can be used as a fun activity in private lessons. This allows piano teachers to add some new activities to lessons that will also help students review rhythm.

This a rhythm game that can be used as a fun activity in private lessons. This allows piano teachers to add some new activities to lessons that will also help students review rhythm.

This website has a cool ear training applet. Other links discuss improvisation and trumpet techniques.

This article references learning theories for teaching vibrato. I will use it for dissecting vibrato for 5th grade.

Garageband lesson plan/ideas for middle to high school students. Can be adapted to specific needs, but is very well done with a lot of information, including plan outlines, scoring, assessments, and rubrics.

This is a great website for all jazz piano players. This is for the beginning jazz pianist or the experienced. It takes the reader/ student through a series of lessons that are chronological in nature. There are links to blogs and products that can help any level of piano player. The videos explaining jazz concepts are well laid out and very educational.

This website offers jazz tutorial videos for jazz pianists. It offers a beginners course where it outlines the basics and slowly increases the difficulty level. Coaching videos are available on a variety of skills and topics

This website is a great resource for learning to play jazz piano. It offers coaching and beginner courses. The site also provides professional development and support for educators.

Project Based Learning is an excellent strategy for increasing motivation and excitement through instruction. This article details the steps for designing a PBL unit.