The Beth and Kelly Show: Music Teaching (and Life)

JEN has great resources for all types of music educators AND students. They have outdone themselves making it easy and affordable to become a member. This is a great org, folks!

In this episode we learn from Native music educator Michelle McCauley who has done so much of the work, maneuvering within our limited euro-centric structure, to help us all understand how to appropriately approach the incorporation of Native culture within our curricula.
We close with a Northern Paiute numbers song that uses the dialect Michelle learned as a little girl. This song is a circle dance song of the Great Basin, composed by Michelle to be used in the classroom. Follow her on Instagram for access to more instructional videos: Thaswrong

Maryland MEA are examining their structures and offerings through an equity lens, and changing them to center process and learning.

On this special Earshot Jazz episode of the Beth and Kelly Show, we discuss making jazz available FOR ALL of our music students. Congrats to Joe & Kamala!

We're joined by music education power couple Theresa and Chuck Hulihan as we make the case that NOW IS THE TIME to start incorporating the National Music Content Standards. Key takeaway: PROCESS over PRODUCT.

We discuss the importance of integrating Hip-Hop into the world of music education, and spitball ideas about how to do that, all with our new friend Clovis de Milo from Sourcery Records.

We're talking Music Education at the collegiate level with Kevin Weingarten from the University of Washington School of Music. How can we use design thinking to transform our teaching practice? Kevin demonstrates true ally ship while Beth and Kelly discuss the painful ways that gatekeeping almost crushed their dreams.

Sammy Miller, and everything he touches, is drenched in sincerity. Tune in and find out how to engage with this awesome human, his music, and his band. info@thisisplaybook.com

Joined by our very good friend and Hawks-watching (and wings eating) pal Tom D’Angelo — a former Roosevelt Jazz student (the self-appointed transition director in Scott Brown’s first year of teaching at RHS taking over for the legendary Waldo King), AND former parent of a Roosevelt Jazz student! We talk about inspiring mentors in our lives (Scott and Robert Knatt), and we talk about the many ways teachers and parent boosters can form productive and positive alliances that sometimes result in lifelong friendships.

We debrief about our all day zoom camp that focused on decolonization and making the Ballard H.S. music department more culturally responsive with guest Courtney Rowley (Choir Director at Ballard High School) . During camp there were lots of learning moments; and we had tough conversations. Camp was like a turbulent flight that landed safely and we're ready to do it again with your students!