Spotlights & Tips
Director Tips – Candi Granlund: Advocacy Approach
Mrs. Candi Granlund, Band Director at Sycamore School, recently joined us on the Director Spotlight. Today, she talks with us about her advocacy approach with her students. Next week, we will have the entire interview with Candi! We hope you enjoy this segment from...
Director Tips – Candi Granlund: Working With Administrators
Mrs. Candi Granlund, Band Director at Sycamore School, recently joined us on the Director Spotlight. Today, she talks with us about working with school administrators and how that relationship affects what happens in the classroom. We hope you enjoy this segment from...
Director Tips – Candi Granlund: Try Something New
For today’s installment of the Director Spotlight, we interviewed Mrs. Candi Granlund, Band Director at Sycamore School in Indianapolis. In this segment of the interview, Candi offers her tip trying something new in the classroom! We hope you enjoy this edition of the...
Music Truths
You’re Using More Of Your Brain When Playing An Instrument
Research indicates the brain of a musician, even a young one, works differently than that of a nonmusician. "There's some good neuroscience research that children involved in music have larger growth of neural activity than people not in music training. When you're a...
Music Instruction Is Relevant For Multiple Disciplines
The cognitive structures developed through music instruction "exposed and illuminated more general organizing structures relevant for multiple disciplines." ~ Portowitz,P., Lichtenstein, O., Egorova, L., & Brand, E. (2009). Underlying mechanisms linking music...
School Music Helps Achievement In Math and English
An analysis of data from the National Educational Longitudinal Study of 1988 demonstrated a significant correlation between participation in school music groups and achievement in math and English. ~ Broh, B. A. (2002). Linking extracurricular programming to academic...
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