This website is really a catch-all for creative ideas and research that I do along the way to try to be the productive and inspirational piano teacher that I aspire to be while not working my life away. I tend to lean to the side of being an unorganized person who LOVES organization. I…
Reducing Stress with Budgeting
When you hear the word budget, you probably start to cringe immediately, but I promise, in the long-run, it can be the way in which you reduce stress in your studio. In my studio, my periods of financial stress come in December and May due to recitals/awards and at tax season when I have to…
Aquarium Sort
The idea for this game came from two sources…..the first was these dry erase pockets that I use EVERYWHERE in my studio. The second was some generic fish cut outs that I saw at dollar tree. I decided to make this into a sorting game to reinforce counting and sorting in 3/4 and 4/4 time….
Registration Graphic
I am taking a little time in May when it is extremely important to market our services to create a series of graphics in Canva that will be great for various Facebook/Instagram advertising this summer. My hope is that I will have enough of these that I can just rotate through them in the next…
Stress-free Scheduling
Ok….I realize I may be stretching things a little far here. We all know that scheduling students is very much like putting together a puzzle where the pieces keep changing. For many teachers, this is the most difficult part of the year. Once you have registered a studio full of students, where do you put…
Relax Lyrical 