Teacher BURNOUT is Real. I have spoken with hundreds of choir directors across the country who are feeling stressed and even BURNT OUT during festival, competition, and musical season. I’ve written a blog post to provide tips on preventing burnout! Here’s my blog post: 18 Tips To Prevent Choral Teacher Burnout
Your 10 Question Choir Midterm Exam
How well are your students really doing at the midpoint of the school year? If you are curious, this blog post for you. I hope every high school and middle school choral director uses this exam as a way to benefit their singers and improve their choral program! Here is my blog post: Your 10 Question Choir Midterm […]
The 11 Winter Choir Concert Songs I Repeat Every Year
There are 11 winter concert songs that I repeat every year. In this blog post, I’m going to share each of them, provide a recording, a link for the sheet music, and most importantly, tell you why each song is repeated. Whether you choose to follow in my footsteps or not is less important […]
8 Reasons I Repeat the Same Holiday Choir Music Every Year
There are 8 reasons why I choose to repeat the same holiday music each year for my choir. Before calling me lazy. read my blog post to understand my rationale. Whether you choose to follow in my footsteps or not is less important than understanding how this approach could help you to build […]
11 Choir Halloween Tricks (and Treats)
October can be both a PRODUCTIVE and FUN month in your choir. Don’t miss the opportunity to utilize HALLOWEEN and all of its festivities to engage your students, build community DEVELOP SOME ADVANCED MUSICAL SKILLS! CHECK OUT MY BLOG POST: 11 Choir Halloween Tricks (and Treats)
Should Choir Members Be Forced To Sing Solo?
When it comes to choir members singing by themselves, there are generally two schools of thought: 1. Singers in a choir should never be forced to sing by themselves. 2. All singers need to be graded individually for how they perform because choir is a skills-based class. My approach differs from the two. HERE IS […]