It can be quite difficult to engage our remote choral learners, especially since most of us have less than six months of experience in this “new normal.” This new blog post presents a simple, tangible approach that will help to engage most of your remote students. The way WE approach remote learning will have a great effect on […]
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7 Simple Choral Hacks for Google Classroom
For many of us, Google Classroom has become our permanent classroom. Over the past few months, I’ve seen more and more ways to utilize google’s platform. As a result, I’ve decided to share 7 Simple Choir Hacks for Google Classroom that will improve the effectiveness and efficiency of your choral program, not just during the pandemic, but […]
9 Tricks and Treats for a Hybrid Halloween Choir Rehearsal!
A Choir Halloween Rehearsal can be festive and productive even when fully remote, hybrid, or live and masked. In fact, I believe our students need Choir Halloween more than ever. It’s something to look forward to and can be one of the most memorable rehearsals of the year. If well-planned, this special rehearsal can be productive, creative, and serve as a way […]
3 Reasons I’ve Ditched Smart Music for Sight Reading Factory
After 10 years of using Smart Music for weekly sight-singing homework assignments, I have officially moved on. I have slowly transitioned fully into Sight Reading Factory over the past 5 years but UNEXPECTEDLY decided to fully abandoned the Smart Music ship in late September. This was not planned, but it became a necessity. And once I did, […]
VIRTUAL CHOIRS: The Two Reasons many of us HATE them!
Do you HATE virtual choirs? Most of us had absolutely no opinion on “the value of VIRTUAL CHOIRS” until two weeks ago. Since then, we have all become experts, or at least, experts of our own opinion. I believe this blog post will be useful to Virtual Choir HATERS and Virtual Choir lovers. Here is my latest […]
Choosing the RIGHT Distance Learning Option!
This is a time like no other. Most of our schools are closed indefinitely as we are grieving the loss of our choral year. Now we are left finding a brand new way to do our job while living our personal life in crisis/survival mode. How do we navigate this ever-changing world, living with instability […]