Posts targeted at music teachers — classroom management, rehearsal routines, teacher account workflow, method-book selection, and webinars.
Late August 2020. Charlie, Tim, and Paul map the three buckets every band director is teaching out of — virtual, face-to-face, or hybrid — and walk each through with practical strategies. Kevin Lynch, fifth-year director at Shirley Heim Middle School in Stafford County, Virginia, joins to share how a county-wide team of ten directors unanimously decided to start sixth-grade beginners virtually.
Read More →Late-August 2020. The hosts make the case for beginning-band performance and walk through Hal Leonard's Flex Band catalog, then welcome Lorinda Davidson from the Brisbane Girls Grammar School in Australia — calling in from a 9:25 Tuesday morning while the U.S. is still in Monday evening — for an international view from a country already back to in-person rehearsals.
Read More →Episode 4 is about assessment — not the high-stakes kind, but the everyday formative checkpoints that tell a teacher whether the concepts are landing. Dan Harrison, longtime director at Thompson Middle School in Oswego, Illinois, joins along with Steve Smith for a deep look at how to use the EE quizzes and the EEi resource library.
Read More →Episode 3 honors two giants the band world lost that week — Eddie Green and Robert Spradling — then digs into review and reinforcement strategies for the new school year. Aaron Cole, the master middle-school director from Tapp Middle in Georgia, joins as the featured guest along with EEi's Steve Smith.
Read More →Episode 2 takes on the year-one problem head-on: how do you start beginners when nothing about the recruiting playbook still works? Charlie, Tim, and Paul welcome veteran Chicago-area music dealer George Quinlan Jr. and EEi's Steve Smith for a practical look at instrument selection, pre-band classes, and the new video-submission feature.
Read More →The premiere episode of EE Band Talk, recorded as music teachers prepared for an uncertain fall 2020 return. Charlie Menghini, Dr. Tim Lautzenheiser, and Paul Lavender talk recruitment, retention, and culture, then welcome veteran beginning-band teacher Terry Little and Hal Leonard's Steve Smith to share what actually worked.
Read More →Recording of an EEi webinar on connecting with students through online learning: reaching students musically, supporting at-home playing, providing resources, and making online time more meaningful. Includes downloadable brass and strings weekly practice suggestions, lesson ideas, and self-assessment rubrics.
Read More →A few minutes to set up your EEi Teacher Account for next school year: remove students who left, advance the rest, archive recordings, and roll over your assignments.
Read More →Three ways to use EEi: Teacher Account alone, Student Accounts alone, or Connected Teacher and Student Accounts — with assignments, recordings, resources, and practice logs.
Read More →Writing counts under rhythms helps students see how rhythms fit together. Pick a counting system, set guidelines for marking held notes and silences, and use EEi rhythm worksheets.
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