This is a lesson by culinary analogy. Recipe: Ingredients: 1 can of Cento peeled tomatoes 1 beefsteak tomato or a couple or three roma tomatoes tomato paste (I used Cento) salt (something like 1 tsp or maybe a little more) roasted fresh garlic, 4 or 5 cloves olive oil some
I keep fresh flowers in the house. This is important. I am under renovation and half the house looks like it's under construction...because it is. Yet, there are fresh flowers in the house. Why? 1. It's not as expensive as you think it is: This
0:00 /1:45 1× Drink Your Water is a professional development workshop I deliver to K12 and college professors. This is an excerpt--you can see the page numbers in the bottom right corner. The bigger presentation is an entire self-care package for teachers. Today, though, we want
I'm a mathematician, a musician, a teacher, a producer, and a writer. I'm a mother, daughter, sister, cousin, niece, and friend. I just wanna make music, have great dinners, and laugh a lot. But now I live in a country where some citizens at the highest
This is my backyard fence. It took two, five hour days to put it up. I designed it, acquired the perfect pallets for free, found the right posts at Lowes for $5, got the auger for the holes at the Carhartt Tool Library (for free), and asked a friend to
1. Tonight is Educator Night at the Detroit Cultural Center. 2. On Thursday, there is an Educator's Roundtable in Hamtramck. 3. I'm attending two conferences this week on artificial intelligence and education and how to curb cheating. Taking care of our teachers is essential. It is
Keeping a piano journal is vital for monitoring your progress. Today's journal entry is about gratitude. Usually it's about some song I worked on, but the feeling of gratitude is the reason, I think, that my music comes out differently. I think it's also
I was in the car. The music was cranked up. I had my perfect French press coffee in my mug and was headed to the 10 a.m. show. It's the 50th anniversary of the release of Jaws, and when it came out I was four, so obviously
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Types of Practice - Google DocsTypes of Practice - Google Docs.pdf183 KBdownload-circleStudio Design Questions - Google DocsStudio Design Questions - Google Docs.pdf174 KBdownload-circle I have never had issues with students not practicing. I've usually had the opposite problem, actually--I've had students who weren't
WHY ARE SOME TEACHERS ABLE TO CONSISTENTLY PRODUCE STELLAR MUSICIANS? Good teachers create systems and strategies that reveal the answers to these questions: * How will the student know if they completed their at-home practice satisfactorily? * How will the teacher know if the student has learned what they're
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The Piano Instructor has arrived at Ghost. Here's why we transferred.