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Tone III

There is another aspect to tone that heavily influences and even overshadows the previous two essays. As a string teacher advocate, I will now focus on how we can nudge ourselves into becoming better teachers by becoming aware of the tone in our life. There is a way in which we go about our day-to-day …

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Tone Part II

Tone has another side that’s too often missed, hence this post. (Part I is the previous post on this blog.) What happens when we dictate everything we want as teachers for the student, and don’t notice our own tone in the process? What happens when we demand things from the parents of our students if …

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Save school orchestra – soul call for your help

School orchestras need help now. After spending the night at a Buddhist monastery in Suzhou, China, I reconfirmed my awareness that we must extend assistance to school orchestra teachers and the families of our students and potential students in order to get the message to school boards that orchestra is an integral part of a community that must be supported and sustained.

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