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…
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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…
Beautiful Balance
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…
Relax Lyrical 