This week’s wrap-up post from MTNA 2019 didn’t include this photo, so I had to share it as the featured photo for this week’s Friday Finds. 🙂 I have a good friend who totally rocks high heels, so this photo was for her.
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Besides my own wrap-up post, there were a lot of other wonderful wrap-up posts written this week from the national conference in Spokane. Here are the ones I’ve caught thus far:
Christina Whitlock (author of the Varsity Musician’s Playbook on Piano Pantry)
Benjamin Steinhardt (one of the admins of The Art of Piano Pedagogy Facebook group)
Joy Morin (ColorinMyPiano.com)
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An Easy Timeline for Creating Your Own Solo Festival. I’ve often thought about doing something like this, but have never taken the initiative to make it happen. I think it’s a great idea though. The fact that you can cater it to your own studio’s progressive plan, and it would be really convenient for students to not have to travel to a festival location and two the biggest reasons I would do it.
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Oh my goodness, have you ever seen anything like this vintage typewriter for music notation? How interesting!
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The Three Modes of Piano Teaching by Samantha Coates.
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It’s the time of year when we need to think about talking to students who need to move to a longer lesson next year. Check out Wendy’s guide for how to move students to longer lessons.
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If you’re a sucker for photos of beautiful homes, check out this one.
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There are two daily blogs that I read. Seth Godin’s (of course), and Amy Bernadette (which I heard about from Seth Godin).
One of my favorite posts from Amy B. thus far is “What’s on Your ‘Not-to-Do’ List?”
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I’ve been experimenting more and being brave with doing some Facebook Live videos on the Piano Pantry Facebook page. I did five short videos on staying organized at conferences and have also recently done a couple of other videos, each one highlighting one item from the previous week’s Friday Finds.
Friday Finds #121 – Some favorite stickers and how I organize them!
Friday Finds #125 – Music Learning Academy Podcast
I’m not making a declaration that I’ll be doing that every week or anything, but thought you might like to know!
