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Education Issues

• Accompanists
  • Why should my school hire an Accompanist?
  • High School Accompanist fees
  • HS Accompanist terms of employment
• Do sports induce Asthma?
• Encouraging better Audience behavior
• Justifying an Auditorium
• Block Scheduling
  • Strategies for Block scheduling
  • Impact on Music Enrollment
  • Pacing a 73-minute middle school rehearsal
  • The case against block scheduling
• Classroom discipline
• College issues
  • Should my college choir sing at Commencement?
  • Non-students in college choirs
  • Recital attendance requirements for music majors
  • Survey of hours rehearsed and credit offered
  • Tenure and promotion standards for conductors
  • Number of Units for ensembles
  • Credit (student and faculty) for Voice lessons
• Teaching Conducting - left hand independence
• Teaching Conducting
• Discipline strategies for high school
• End-of-year activities after concerts are done
• Facilities
  • Designing a school Auditorium
  • What are the best Dimensions for a rehearsal room?
• Question about a Foreign student
• Grading
  • Grading a student who Misses a performance
  • Grading Rubrics for choirs
  • Testing chorus students
  • Writing assignments for 6th grade choir
• Gymnasium acoustics
• Starting a HS Jazz choir
• Top reasons to Join high school choir
• Legal matters
  • Rationale for dividing JH choirs by Gender
  • Adapting to Jehovah's Witnesses
  • Arts and the No Child Left Behind Act
  • Title IX issues
• Pros/cons of individual Lessons
• General Middle school strategies
• Getting started with Musical Theater
• Religious music in public schools
  • Choralist discussion
  • Joint statement of current law
  • A Parent's Guide
  • Patriot-News editorial
  • Performing Religious Music (from the Anti-Defamation League)
  • Sacred Music in the Public Schools - Duke University Law Journal
  • The School Prayer Case--Monkey Trial of the 90s
  • U.S. Secretary of Education Riley's letter to Superintendents
• Starting a HS choir
• Activities for Starting the school year
• What is the State of Music Education in the U.S.?
• Substitute teacher ideas
• High school Theory texts
• Is it a conflict of interest to give Voice lessons to your choir students?
• Watching when other groups perform
• Why study music? (academic/intellectual benefits)
• The Winter Concert Dilemma