In preparation for teaching this fall, I’ve been working on some new resources to put in our custom assignment books and just to have available to use with my students. I decided to put music staff paper on the back of each week’s assignment page, but I also wanted to have a picture of a […]
Monday Mailbag – 4 Tips for Teaching Students How to Practice
[It’s back! After taking a break over the summer, I have an incredible backlog of questions in my inbox so I’m excited to resume the Monday Mailbag feature here on Music Matters Blog. I always love hearing from other teachers with both thought-provoking questions and helpful answers. Many teachers send questions with the hope of […]
The Creative Life – Day Four
The conference ended Saturday morning with a time of singing together, a few final thoughts from Michael Card, and lots of farewells and gathering of contact information before heading our separate ways. We were asked to fill out a survey about the conference. One of the questions was, “How have you seen God work in […]
The Creative Life – Day Three
This morning I decided to get up extra early for a sunrise hike up the mountain to a spot overlooking the Garden of the Gods. It was a beautiful morning, and so neat to look out over the sprawling Colorado Springs metropolis as the sun rose. This is a shot looking behind me with the […]
The Creative Life – Day Two
Instead of staying in the castle, I opted to stay in one of the other lodges on the Glen Eyrie property. For one, I love getting outside and walking from place to place instead of being inside the same location all day. Plus, I’ve stayed in the castle before and it was less expensive to […]
The Creative Life – Day One
The first scheduled event of The Creative Life conference was dinner on Wednesday evening. I joined a table of other conference attendees and we enjoyed meeting one another and finding out what brought each of us to the conference. There was something familiar to me about the lady sitting across the table from me, but […]
