by Melissa Stouffer | Aug 25, 2026 | All, Running Your Classroom, The Sustainable Music Teacher
We’re all about saving time, making templates to make life easier, and making what we use work for us. Taking back ANY amount of time in our day, even 5 minutes, is a great way to be able to get one more thing done, one more something ready, or spend less time...
by Melissa Stouffer | Aug 12, 2025 | All, Running Your Classroom, The Sustainable Music Teacher
Classroom teachers use parent helpers all the time for reading, individual work, copies, for events, and more. But music teachers tend to be reluctant. Why? If you are in a K-5 school those parents’ students are your students for SIX years. And while we only see...
by Melissa Stouffer | Sep 13, 2022 | All, Improve Your Skills, Running Your Classroom
This is the time of year we set goals, targets, etc. Not only do we set goals for our students, but we set them for ourselves as well. Here are some professional goals that you might want to make one of yours this year. More student praise If you aren’t great at...
by Melissa Stouffer | Apr 12, 2022 | All, Running Your Classroom
I see lots of posts asking about money given to music teachers for places that would be GREAT if you are a classroom teacher, but don’t always have great music selections. Office stores, the big box stores, and sometimes even teacher stores aren’t great...
by Melissa Stouffer | Aug 24, 2021 | All, Classroom Management, Running Your Classroom
As music teachers, we have lots of things to keep track of during the day. Multiple classes later and we’ve forgotten to do some of the basic things like input attendance for those of us who have to do that, or prep things that take forever to set up. Here are...
