How Do You Launch A Band Trip? The school year is rapidly coming to a close, and you may have just returned from a Spring trip with your band. As a result, you may be thinking of where your band should go next Spring and how you can help even more students be a part of it. Here at Green Light, we ... Read More about How Do You Launch A Band Trip?
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Empowered Leaders – Inspired Performers: How Student Leadership Shapes the Culture of Our Organizations
If culture is everything, then student leadership is one of the strongest forces shaping that culture. In our profession, we talk constantly about excellence…better tone, stronger fundamentals, recruitment, retention, competitive success. But those results do not exist on their own. They grow ... Read More about Empowered Leaders – Inspired Performers: How Student Leadership Shapes the Culture of Our Organizations
Three Ways to Make Your Ensembles, Lessons, and Classes More Accessible for Every Student, No Matter How They Learn Best
The population of learners in our ensembles is becoming increasingly diverse in many ways, including how they learn best. For some students, a disability or diagnosis may affect their learning. Others who do not have a disability or diagnosis may just learn in ways that are unique and that require ... Read More about Three Ways to Make Your Ensembles, Lessons, and Classes More Accessible for Every Student, No Matter How They Learn Best
A Second Technique to Help Students Overcome Performance Anxiety: Power Pose
After I've taught kids all about their "inner superpower" (which you can read about here), the next step is the help them learn to further handle the physical aspects of performance anxiety in the moments before a big performance. This lesson is taken from the wonderful TED talk by Amy Cuddy. ... Read More about A Second Technique to Help Students Overcome Performance Anxiety: Power Pose
One Technique to Help Band Students Overcome Performance Anxiety: Inner Superhero
Here’s one concrete technique to help band students overcome performance anxiety. I usually teach this concept to 6th grade beginners in the spring so they can continue to utilize it as they get older and have higher stakes performances. This is how I explain it to a class: So, solo ... Read More about One Technique to Help Band Students Overcome Performance Anxiety: Inner Superhero
What Should You Do With Your Band’s Baggage?
Let’s face it: your band has baggage. Not the emotional drama kind (though a couple of band parents probably have that too) we’re talking about literally transporting all the stuff you’ll need when traveling by plane. With Spring Break right around the corner, you may be wondering about the most ... Read More about What Should You Do With Your Band’s Baggage?
