by Melissa Stouffer | Oct 14, 2025 | All, Classroom Management, Concerts, SEL
Students can be fearful. Not spooky or Halloween fun, but from “stage fright”, feeling like they are on display, or putting themselves on the line. Real scary can be harder than spooky. We can tell students that ghosts and ghouls aren’t real, but we...
by Melissa Stouffer | Jan 17, 2023 | All, General Music Lessons, SEL
One of the benchmarks for music education is responding to music. It’s not only important to help expose students to all kinds of music, but also to help them develop language for describing music. But there is definitely more than one way to respond....
by Melissa Stouffer | Nov 1, 2022 | All, Literature, Music History, SEL
In summer 2021 at The Music Crew’s free virtual conference, I talked about this awesome book which gives listening examples that coincide with a feeling for each letter of the alphabet. The only problem I had with it was the majority of the listening examples...
