Teacher Toolkit

Our students need human connection now more than ever. K Michelle Lewis explores how drum circles can help meet children’s social and emotional needs.
Do you struggle with granting yourself grace? LeslieAnne Bird gives us the permission slips we all need right now.
In her open letter to music teachers, Meg Tietz offers words of reassurance and solidarity with her reminder that you are not alone.
Crystal Pridmore offers perspective designed to reframe your mindset about the coming year and help establish boundaries.
Samantha Puterbaugh shares some great advice on stocking your music cart, communicating with your colleagues, and staying positive.
To help navigate emotions during these turbulent times, Michelle Marie offers strategies that are rooted in three things.
Whether guiding your students, your colleagues, or your family members, Michelle Marie has outlined 4 steps to leading others through anxiety.
The ButtOn chair promotes active sitting and is freely distributed as a digital file. Using some plywood, a tennis ball and bungee cord, a ButtOn chair can be made for about seven dollars!
Martina Vasil discusses how teaching and learning processes found in modern band classrooms parallel many aspects of the Orff-Schulwerk approach
The members of Chaotic Harmony Classroom tackle the subject of self care and share openly about their own struggles to find balance and peace while managing the ups and downs of teaching hundreds of students.
Joan Eckroth-Riley and Wendy van Gent discuss the integration of Music Learning Theory with Orff Schulwerk

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