Professional Development

Review the national standards and how you can align your lesson planning and outcomes assessment in the context of modern music curricula.

Get access to google slide lesson plan templates, forms for surveys and exit tickets, and classroom templates, along with an extensive standards-based activity bank including therapeutic check-ins and games, music listening, practicing, performing, and producing.

Go deep into the heart of trauma-informed pedagogy to apply neurosequential and polyvagal theory to your modern music pedagogy.

Explore lesson planning with therapeutic intent and a trauma-informed perspective.

Discuss how to deescalate during those thorny moments in class when students and teachers get triggered.

Practice self-regulating and co-regulating activities.

Take home our Guidebook for Therapeutic Integrations.

Learn how to use accessible iconic notation resources inside Music Atlas, to break through barriers of false prerequisites.

Discover a storehouse of curricular resources including the Piano Atlas, Guitar Atlas, Ukulele Atlas, Bass Atlas, Audio Atlas, and more.

Take home instantly usable stylistic lesson resources and song maps, play-alongs and instructional videos.

Gain fundamental competency in utilizing digital audio workstation (DAW) technology to record student works.

Understand the basics of signal flow and audio engineering, so you can avoid  speaker-busting pops and ear-busting feedback.

Test out lesson plans that center beat-making, lyric-writing, and individual and collaborative producing.

Empower your students' relationship with music by adopting a "process-is-content" paradigm.

Explore ways to consistently engage students with evidence-based responsive practices, from classroom setup to student projects.

Test different ways of sequencing the elements of lessons, while balancing self-directed learning and collaboration.

Discuss and problem-solve ways to activate your school administration and larger community in relationship with your music students.

Self-employed in the Music Industry focuses on providing information and resources for musicians who are self-employed or considering self-employment in the music industry, including how to form an LLC and get an EIN, a template spreadsheet for tracking spending and savings, mission, vision, goals, etc.

Building a Music Studio covers the technical and practical aspects of building a home or professional studio for music production.

We will look at different tiers of equipment, the necessities, the extras, and why you might want them (or not). We will discuss your specific needs as relevant.

Performing with Technology covers the use of technology in live performance, including digital instruments, effects processors, and MIDI controllers.

We will demonstrate a system using Ableton with a mix of triggered samples, live instruments, and pre-recorded tracks, using in-ear monitors and click tracks.