Beg, Borrow, & Steal Your Way to Excellent Teaching How Do You Become an Excellent Teacher? Beg, Borrow, and Steal By Lisa Sempsey and Crystal Pridmore Music teachers are collectively some of the most generous, brilliant, compassionate… Read More »
Elemental Musical Adventures At the beginning of the pandemic, music teachers everywhere struggled with how to transfer our music instruction to a virtual platform. I ended up in what I felt… Read More »
On Music and Grief: Using Song to Help a Community in Trauma As music teachers, we thrive off the moments that touch a student’s life. There is excitement when a shy student finds their confidence on the violin; excitement when… Read More »
Swing is the New Steady Beat It is said that you get only one opportunity to make a first impression, for first impressions matter greatly in the health and strength of a relationship. As… Read More »
Griff Gall, ACEMM’s Winter Spotlight Recipient An Elemental Approach, A Child-Centered Approach Griff Gall’s twenty-two years of teaching music and movement in Grades K-5 have given him ample experience in reaching his students using… Read More »
Inclusion using Diverse Children’s Literature in the Music Room Change is ever constant. The field of education is evolving rapidly to accommodate the learning needs of the current generation of students. Increased knowledge and research regarding learning… Read More »
Listening Lessons in the Active Music Classroom Music listening is perhaps the most frequent way that we engage with music. Individuals listen, connect with, and respond to various styles of music on a daily basis.… Read More »
The Joy of Movement in Music Education by David Frego “Joy arises in the child the moment his faculties are liberated from any restraint, and he becomes conscious of his control over them, and decides on the… Read More »
Fall 2019 Spotlight Award – Lisa Meyer Congratulations to Lisa Meyer, ACEMM’s Fall 2019 Spotlight Award recipient! A master teacher who seeks to create unity and build community through music, serving both her students and… Read More »
Building Empathy Through Elemental Music and Movement Implicit bias causes us to have feelings and attitudes about other people based on characteristics such as appearance, race, ethnicity etc. These attitudes are activated involuntarily and develop… Read More »
