The Music Ed Mentor Podcast

Today I’ve brought on one of the world’s foremost experts in a truly relevant topic in music education today: Social Emotional Learning. Dr. Edgar presents internationally on music education and social emotional learning and literally wrote the book AND the workbook “Music Education and Social Learning.”

Because today is International Women’s Day — and because March is Women’s History Month — I’m going to share some stories of amazing women in music.

If you’ve ever wondered about which technology you should be using in your classroom, this episode is for you. We’ll also discuss how tech can make your job easier, and what great tech is available for free. Joining me are two of my most tech-savvy contacts, Stephen Keys and Ryan Sargent. Stephen is a Google certified educator and trainer, an Apple teacher, a Flipgrid Ambassador, and a Soundtrap Certified educator. Ryan is Vice President of TI:ME (Technology Institute for Music Educators) the leading professional organization for the integration of technology in music education. He’s also the social media manager at MakeMusic.

Most music education degrees come with a K-12 teaching certificate, but that doesn’t mean you feel comfortable with the K-4 kids. Most of us focused on secondary school in college, and when confronted with the realities of teaching elementary music we have to make some adjustments. In this episode, I talk with master elementary music teacher David Row about everything you need to know to teach elementary music.

For today’s episode I brought in my friend Shawna Long, an award-winning music technology teacher who recently transitioned from teaching middle school music technology classes to teaching elementary music. A teacher of her caliber so celebrated for her successes could probably have chosen any position that she wanted. Today we'll explore why we might transition between jobs and how we can do it most successfully.