Posts targeted at music teachers — classroom management, rehearsal routines, teacher account workflow, method-book selection, and webinars.
Erin Cole Steele’s playbook for retaining students through summer: pass-off assignments with EEi recordings and incentives, EEi Resources for written work, student-choice solo books, Sheet Music Direct PASS streaming, Noteflight Marketplace, and parent communication about practice expectations and summer camps.
Read More →Solo and full ensemble repertoire that aligns to specific page numbers in the EE method — five levels for band (Explorer, Performer, Artist, Expert, Master) and five for strings, plus theme-based collections including holiday, Broadway, classical solos, film, and Beatles arrangements.
Read More →Keep students playing through winter break: assign the EEi Holiday Music Activities Sheet from the Resources section, encourage family concerts using the Music Studio’s professional accompaniments, suggest practicing with friends, and share new holiday music videos including a 360-degree LA Philharmonic performance.
Read More →Tailor the EEi Music Studio to your curriculum by enabling or disabling specific songs in your students’ accounts. Three steps: open the Music Studio, click SONGLIST in the left-hand column, then toggle individual songs on or off — useful for skipping content or matching pacing.
Read More →On-demand recording of the August 2019 webinar on starting beginning band students. Covers instrument-specific pedagogy for brass and woodwinds, developing music reading skills, building strong fundamentals, establishing practice habits, and using the EEi Music Studio to shape tone quality from day one.
Read More →On-demand strings webinar with Soo Han (Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory) and Steve Smith (Hal Leonard). Covers instrument-specific pedagogy for beginning strings, music reading, fundamentals, practice habit formation, and the EEi tools and resources that support each step.
Read More →A 20–30 minute on-demand webinar on using EEi to keep students focused: creating recording assignments, using the grade book efficiently, building self-assessment rubrics, getting feedback to struggling students, and FAQs — plus a downloadable EEi Lesson Plans PDF with classroom activities.
Read More →Build EEi Recording Assignments to track student progress on EE exercises, fundamentals, class music, and concert prep. Pick the exercise or all-music title, set points and due date, choose recipients, optionally attach a self-assessment rubric, then grade submissions on a color-coded grid as they come in.
Read More →EEi's My Students section gets refreshed sorting, list view, search, mobile-friendly layout, and three streamlined ways to add students — invite by link, Excel upload, or one-by-one.
Read More →EEi offers instrument-specific fundamental resources for beginning band students: posture, breathing, mouthpiece placement, first sounds, long tones, articulation — worksheets and videos correlated to EE Books.
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