The Inspiring Music Teachers Podcast is here to support, encourage, and celebrate the incredible music teachers around us who are changing lives through music every day. Your host Jessica Sudduth will introduce you to music educators around the world who are doing exciting things in the classroom, private studio, concert hall, and community and inspire you to keep pursuing excellence in your teaching as you follow your dreams. We'll also touch on business tips and tools for entrepreneurial music educators who are building their own creative businesses.
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The Inspiring Music Teachers Podcast is here to support, encourage, and celebrate the incredible music teachers around us who are changing lives through music every day. Your host Jessica Sudduth will introduce you to music educators around the world who are doing exciting things in the classroom, private studio, concert hall, and community and inspire you to keep pursuing excellence in your teaching as you follow your dreams. We'll also touch on business tips and tools for entrepreneurial music educators who are building their own creative businesses.
Teaching Music to Deaf Students with Kelly Surette
Inspiring Music Teachers Podcast
43 minutes 29 seconds
6 years ago
Teaching Music to Deaf Students with Kelly Surette
How do you reach students with music when they are not able to hear?
It seems like an impossible task. But Kelly Surette is an adaptive music instructor who will inspire you to truly believe that ALL children can and should participate in musical experiences.
Her upcoming book Creative Miracles: A Practitioner’s Guide to Adaptive Music Instruction, about her experience over the last decade teaching music to students with special needs and those who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing with disabilities, will equip you with practical tips and inspiring stories to prepare YOU to reach all students with music. And her blog focuses on all things music teacher, teaching music to special needs, how to make your music school more inclusive, and other topics important to today's music teacher.
In addition to teaching music, Kelly is a mom of two, and she also talks with us about balancing creative work with motherhood, how she was inspired to start writing, and the importance of pursuing your own passions.
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Resources & Links:
Music Teacher Business Launchpad
Small Group Mastermind application
IG: @musicbusinessmom
Connect with Kelly:
Adaptive Music Maker Blog
Kelly's Website
IG: @adaptive_music_maker
FB: Kelly Surette
About Kelly:
Kelly attended The Boston Conservatory as a musical theater major and received her Bachelor of Arts in Theater from Merrimack College. Kelly holds her Masters in Science in Music Industry Leadership from Northeastern University with a concentration in Entrepreneurship (selected RISE participant – Research, Innovation, and Scholarships Expo.) Kelly currently works as an adaptive music instructor at The Children’s Center for Communication and The Beverly School for the Deaf. Prior to working at CCCBSD, Kelly was the Executive Director of Amplifi Adaptive Music Programs, an organization that provided adaptive music programming for those with developmental, physical, and intellectual disabilities. Kelly was also a voice, piano, and musical theater teacher for many years at several local music schools including The Music Academy of Chelmsford, The Real School of Music, and Performing Arts Programs.
Kelly is the composer of the musical Miles to Amelia (a 2013 NYMF candidate), Given The Musical, and Never Saw Gray Like This Before (winner of the Merrimack College Award for Social Justice, The Campus Catalyst Grant, and for this work Kelly was a nominated member of the Women’s Leadership Seminar.) Kelly is a proud graduate of The Greater Hartford Academy of the Performing Arts.
Kelly lives in Groveland, Massachusetts with her husband, Kristopher, and their two beautiful daughters, Brielle and Chelsea.
Inspiring Music Teachers Podcast
The Inspiring Music Teachers Podcast is here to support, encourage, and celebrate the incredible music teachers around us who are changing lives through music every day. Your host Jessica Sudduth will introduce you to music educators around the world who are doing exciting things in the classroom, private studio, concert hall, and community and inspire you to keep pursuing excellence in your teaching as you follow your dreams. We'll also touch on business tips and tools for entrepreneurial music educators who are building their own creative businesses.
