by Whitney | Oct 28, 2013 | 4 D's, Delight, Drive, Featured
Every time I attend an inspiring session at a conference, I love to take notes. Then when I want to incorporate something into my studio, I pull out my notebook and read through the awesome ideas I wrote down. Today I wanted so share a quote that came from my notebook... 
by Whitney | Aug 16, 2013 | 4 D's, Drive, Featured, Printables, Resources
My studio semester begins next week – so many little things left to prepare before the first student arrives! One of my projects this summer was beginning a point system (based off Spring’s post here) to reward practice but keeping track of points in... 
by Spring | Jul 16, 2013 | 4 D's, Drive, Featured, Printables, Resources, Worksheets
Over the last semester I became dissatisfied with my current assignment sheet method – just writing everything out on a piece of notebook paper and writing a mini practice chart at the bottom of the page each week. I believe that assignment sheets are very... 
by Whitney | Jul 11, 2013 | 4 D's, Delight, Drive, Featured
Most students come to their piano lesson alone, practice alone and perform alone. Not the most exciting hobby when there are all the team sports and dance groups around is it? So our solution? Piano ensemble camp! It allows us to still teach private lessons as we... 
by Spring | Jun 5, 2013 | 4 D's, Drive, Featured, Printables, Resources, Worksheets
Our summer session of lessons has begun and I thought my students needed a change of pace from piano points, so I’ve started a “Super Summer Practice Club.” The goal of this is to get students at the piano or at least thinking about piano as many... 
by Spring | Apr 17, 2013 | 4 D's, Drive
I shared with you recently about a couple incentive programs I launched in my studio. The Piano Points system was explained in this post and I shared about my idea for practice bracelets here. I thought I would give you an update on how these have been working for...