Lately, I’ve been reading Tim Flannery’s Life on Earth: A Natural History of the Planet and it’s been blowing my mind. As you may know from speaking with me or looking at the Music page, I am quite the biophiliac – I am infatuated with life on this planet. Flannery’s book opens with Darwinism and Neo-Darwinism, exploring the separation between selfishness and altruism that social dogmatists … Continue reading Music Ed Monday – The Medea Hypothesis
While I had a whole other idea for a post this week, the “Gov. Rick Perry forgetting which three agencies he wants to scrap” has really been occupying my mind – but not for the forgetting; but rather, what it is that he wants to scrap: Commerce, Education and, uh… Wait a sec… EDUCATION?! What does that say about the state of the social state … Continue reading Music Ed Mondays – Placing the Focus
Isn’t that just a wonderful picture? He’s smiling away, having a great time 🙂 As humans, we are so good at routine, I would even go so far as to say that we excel at routine. We wake with the sun, eat breakfast, go to work, come home, eat some more, read our book or follow our shows, then sleep with the moon in the sky, … Continue reading Music Ed Mondays – The Gorilla Story
“Whatever gets repeated, gets remembered.” – Michael Brandon This simple sentence blew my mind during my second year of teaching, which was the year that Michael Brandon came to our school. He and I teach the Instrumental and Academic areas of our Music Program – yes, it can be more than just Band, Choir and Drama, but more on that in another post. While we … Continue reading Music Ed Mondays – “Whatever Gets Repeated…”
“Being together, not just doing together.” – Bill Kristjanson Music Educator There really is something magical about the music room, isn’t there? It’s not just a classroom (though, it definitely is that as well), kind of the same way that the gym isn’t just a classroom, there’s something special that happens there too, albeit in a different way. We don’t play music to hash out … Continue reading Music Ed Mondays – Being Together
“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all” – Aristotle It goes without saying, but sometimes we (not only as teachers, but as a culture) really get caught up in our day-to-day, be it curriculum, routine, meetings, or whatever. It’s not necessarily our fault because that’s just the pace of our world, but when we get reminded about the why of … Continue reading Music Ed Mondays – Educating the Heart
