Anna Fagan shares her experience with music lab and how it all began for her in this review below. I love her story and maybe yours is similar? Whether or not you have been running a music lab for years or just getting started, music lab was born to solve a problem....
Guest Review: Music Lab- Setting Up For Success! A Course Overview
I am happy to announce that the brand new course, Music Lab - Setting Up For Success has been released! If you have a music lab that you are wanting to improve or interested in beginning a music lab or doing any kind of lesson rotation, this course is for you. Lizbeth...
Music Lab Release Party
Today we kick off the release of the new online course, Music Lab - Setting Up For Success! I'm thrilled to have this available to teachers. Customized for You The journey for this course began almost 6 months ago when I wanted to create an in-depth course to help...
Have You Taken the Free Music Lab Course Yet?
Did you know that Music Educator Resources has online courses you can take? Yep! I enjoy doing online courses because I love to help teachers improve their teaching, learn, grow and stretch. One of the courses that I have shared is The Basics of Starting a Music Lab,...
Tech Tuesday: Organize Websites to iPad Folders
If you are like me, you have websites you use over and over again whether for yourself or for your students. While you can always bookmark those websites, if you are using the iPad (especially with students), I found it even better to create an icon for that specific...
Rotating Lessons: All Your Questions Answered
Rotating lessons or what is also known as 20/20/20 lessons seems to be a popular format many teachers are trying out in their studios right now. I call mine, rotating lessons because it describes exactly what the students are doing when they are at lessons,...
Feature Friday: Music Lab Task Cards
Music Lab Task Cards I wanted to begin with the music lab task cards for 3 reasons! 1) They literally changed my studio this year! Students are focused, engaged and most importantly, lab is purposeful! 2) Summer is the perfect time of year to purchase them so you can...
Music Lab Task Cards UPDATE
With fall semester coming to a close, I thought I would give an update on how things have been going using the music lab task cards. So far I am thrilled with the results from using the lab cards. I have seen more engagement, staying on task, less "wasted" time and...
Once Upon A Time; A Music Lab Story
Once Upon a Time there was a piano teacher who lived in a small town. She enjoyed teaching piano lessons but was looking for something to spice things up a bit. Something that would allow her students to learn and engage in more than what there was time for during...
Top 3 Student Benefits for Music Lab
A few weeks ago, I had a teacher contact me that was brand new in implementing a music lab for her studio. She was writing up a letter for parents explaining the new feature and wanted to include some benefits to get them excited. She was asking for my thoughts and I...