Guess what? We released "Teaching Students to Integrate Singing and Expression" this week! It's for choral and musical theater students... check it out!
We will be releasing a new free (for a limited time) resource soon too (maybe in the next few days). This podcast discusses the topic for the resource which is audiences and their impact on student performers. Let's examine what is happening and how this new release is going to help it.
Check out Uplevel U: Music's newly released "Critical Listening for the General Music Classroom" and Helping Students Love and Appreciate Scales resources!
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We just wanted to clarify on what is getting released the next few months, as there was a little change of plans. The big K-8 curriculum project is getting expanded, so it will be taking longer than expected (all good things for you).
In the meantime, we also promised a singing and expression course, which will be released by the end of August! THAT was also promised a few months ago, so that one is coming to the Uplevel U: Music catalog first.
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The new school year is about to begin, or maybe already has for you! Where we are from, the school year will be starting in just under a month, but either way, thoughts about kicking off a fresh, new school year are afoot.
How are you going to have an amazing school year, filled with student progress, inspirational moments and skillful performances? Have you decided how you'll reach those goals? Let's discuss in this podcast episode...
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Special Announcement! Vocal Pedagogy for Non-Voice Majors has been released! Check it out today!
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Many of our music teachers out there are general music teachers. It's time that they get more assistance from Uplevel U: Music. In this quick little check-in episode, Kay discusses a little bit about her time teaching K-8 general music and how little assistance she had to get things started- including no curriculum. It happens, but it shouldn't happen to any teacher. Let's discuss!
Check out Uplevel U: Music's newly released "Critical Listening for the General Music Classroom" and Helping Students Love and Appreciate Scales resources!
Special Announcement! Vocal Pedagogy for Non-Voice Majors has been released! Check it out today!
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What is Critical Listening? Critical listening skills are the skills students (and people) should be using to actively listen to a piece of music and pick it apart into components. In this episode, we begin to dig into what it means to critically listen to something, and how you, as the music teacher, is responsible for helping guide students into that ability.
Using Uplevel U: Music's newly released "Critical Listening for the General Music Classroom" resource, it has never been easier to help students attain this skill and for you to enjoy their journey.
Special Announcement! Vocal Pedagogy for Non-Voice Majors has been released! Check it out today!
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First, big apologies for the break. There were definitely some extenuating circumstances. The last few weeks have taught me some serious life lessons, and I want to share that with you in this episode, from the point of view of the busy teacher.
This content really wasn't what I had in mind, obviously, as you will understand, but the message and the three life lessons I'll be speaking about I hope will inspire you to do the same when life throws you curveballs.
Special Announcement! Vocal Pedagogy for Non-Voice Majors has been released! Check it out today!
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Today's episode focuses a little bit on the dire circumstance of vocal health in today's students. Like many other health issues, it's easy to say that children are a little immortal, or that "it won't happen to them" or that it is likely to only happen to the singers that tour, rehearse and practice for hours a day.
But that isn't true.
Isn't that what happens during the last few weeks of the musical? Aren't students singing for hours each day?
Voice issues and vocal nodes are issues that can happen to anyone, and it's our responsibility as music teachers to help students sing safely and pain-free, and to help them understand what that all means.
Special Announcement! How to Teach Your Students to Use Fakebooks and Lead Sheets has been released as another one of our Free or Low-Cost Resources.
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Special Announcement! How to Teach Your Students to Use Fakebooks and Lead Sheets has been released as another one of our Free or Low-Cost Resources.
Today I take you through what it's all about, why it is a helpful resource for teachers to have and what possibilities it opens up for students to create.
Now that this resource has been released, the focus is now set on our next course which will focus on vocal tone development, vocal health and other vocal/choral techniques for the singers you teach. The approach that makes this different is that this is aimed toward the teacher that did not have as much vocal training themselves, or that do not feel as confident teaching voice and tone development as they wish they had, especially since teaching a topic you cannot see, and can barely feel is just so subjective! This course will break into that and give you what you need to become confident with teaching voice.
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Special Announcement! Character Development and Stage Presence for the Dramatic Arts has been released! This episode discusses some of the details of the course. As a special thank you for listening to this podcast, use the coupon code, StealTheShow10 to get $10 off!
So what's next for Uplevel U: Music? What topics are going to be covered in future episodes? Listen and see and have a chance to voice your opinion of what content you'd like to see at Karen@musicroombuffalo.com.
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We've gotten a lot done in the last month!
First, introducing our first free resource "The Metronome Game", where you can now gamify metronome skills to help students transition to using metronomes consistently, correctly and without frustration.
Now we are working to get our next course up and running. "Character Development and Stage Presence" is set to be released around the end of march. In this podcast episode, I wanted to discuss some of the reason for the need for this course, where the ideas came from, and what the results of some of the ideas are.
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Big news coming! We are about ready to release our first course of 2025! It's called "My Orchestra Doesn't Squeak: Perfect Technique by Middle School"
It's exactly what you're hoping it is. The course includes the teaching sequence and objectives for the first 7+ orchestra group, troubleshooting, tried-and-true instructional delivery, plenty of photo and video footage to see the correct way to do everything for string technique. There's so much more even than that!
The course is set to be released the week of February 17th and the live course catalog (link below) will be updated to include it!
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Happy New Year! Today it seemed like a good idea to take a break from professional development and talk about other needs for teachers- health.
How are your New Year's resolutions going? Are some related to mental health at all? Last episode was about physical health and I was going to have a section on mental health and realized I should just include it in another episode, so here we are!
The topics we discus in this episode are identifying what about mental health needs changing and list-making for the changes and positives that don't need changing. We also discuss meditation and how to properly handle self care in your life so that it is effective.
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Happy New Year! Today it seemed like a good idea to take a break from professional development and talk about other needs for teachers- health.
Many people make New Year's resolutions right now that are health-related, so let's talk about some easy ways to help accomplish some of those most popular resolutions.
The first area was physical health, and after discussing nutrition, physical activity, health care and meal prepping, Kay decided to break off and save mental health for the next episode. There's plenty to think about and work out in the meantime!
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We just released "Improvisation in the Performing Arts!" Check it out by clicking the link!
We also discuss some course ideas for next year, especially some that help drama/theater, dance and orchestra teachers. If you are a drama/theater or a dance year, I'd love to hear from you if you have any suggestions. The episode speaks about where we are starting, but I'd love to know about other topics that would help for later on.
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This episode is just a quick update about our improvisation course, and about what 2025 is going to be looking like!
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The argument to be had in this episode is that more frequent improvisation opportunities leads to more comfort and stronger audition skills in students, which in turn leads to students performing at a higher level when given different opportunities. We examine theater, dance, and instrumental student examples and how this cause and effect is extremely likely, but only if students are given these types of chances.
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After the exciting release of "Growth Mindset for Music Teachers", Kay begins by talking about how we are already looking at the possibility for some bonus material being added. There's just so much to know, and a new book is prompting her to do a little research with her students to bring you even more goodness to our latest course.
Next, there's a free resource coming to Uplevel U: Music- one that will help you manage your professional development much easier!
Lastly, the next course that will be released will be about improvisation. There's a lot to unpack here, and Kay asks some really important questions about how improvisation is being handled in your program/school/district to get us started on the next topic.
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Uplevel U: Music has finally released the "Growth Mindset for Music Teachers" course!
In this episode, Uplevel U: Music founder and course developer, Kay Janiszewski, talks about some of the final pieces of information of the course, including the number of course hours, and about the free preview course that is also available. She also makes a prediction about how impactful this course's material will be once many teachers have taken it.
Check out the full version of the course HERE.
This is the FREE version of the course.
And HERE is a course report where you may review all the logistical and standards connection information.
Enjoy a coupon code for 20% this course! Enter MindsetTrailblazers (case sensitive) into the coupon code field upon checkout. Excited to see you there!
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After lots of time in research and development, the newest Uplevel U: Music course, "Growth Mindset For Music Teachers" is almost ready to be released! Look out for it next week!
In this episode, Uplevel U: Music founder and course developer, Kay Janiszewski, discusses what the course is all about, how it is applicable to every teacher and why growth mindset in our teachers and students could change the world. Growth mindset is very important, but often is misunderstood or feels impossible to adopt. Kay describes how this new course gives the knowledge, the self-analysis, the solutions and the implementation of a personalized plan that you make during this course to help convert your thinking into growth mindset.
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A discussion topic worth discussing, we are talking about the pros and cons for taking professional development courses during various points during the year, and how that can impact your instruction.
Between summer vacation, after the first few weeks of school and later in the school year, there are issues and advantages to consider for each time.
The bottom line is that the timing needs to be most effective for you and when you're able to implement what you have learned.
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