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Guest blog submission by Rebecca Pollack. Rebecca facilitates the Creative Writing program at Marin School of the Arts at Novato High School in San Francisco Bay Area. When she’s not reading, writing, planning, or grading, she can be found chasing her two young children around the local playground. Our most recent project explored how media,…
A couple weeks ago 350 teachers and student delegates met in Malmö, Sweden for the 27th European Association of Music in Schools Conference. The theme of the conference was “The School I’d Like” which emphasized student-centered classrooms and encouraged music teachers to design their teaching around the individual students. The courage to trust the students…
Guest post by Richard McCready Girls Make Beats is a music production club at River Hill High School, in Clarksville, MD. Music Technology has been a curricular option for all students at River Hill since I began teaching there in 2007. Over the years I noticed how all Music Tech classes had very few girls…
Soundtrap for Education earns prestigious industry recognition for student creativity and expression Stockholm, Sweden, and Palo Alto, CA – May 9, 2019 – Soundtrap, the online collaborative music and podcast recording studio, today announced that Soundtrap for Education was named a 2019 SIIA CODiE Award finalist in the Best Tool for Student Creation or Expression…
We’re excited to announce a brand new offering from our partner, MusicFirst – Noteflight Learn and Soundtrap for Education bundled in a single subscription. Every music student should learn to compose music using digital tools, and this is an ideal pairing! Soundtrap for Education and Noteflight Learn Bundle Do your students create and compose music…
Below are just a few words we’ve recently received from one of our inspiring world language teachers… “Soundtrap has been a truly collaborative tech tool for my students learning Spanish. In our recent project, students who do not always attend class or do work for me actually finished their songs and presented them to the…
Guest Post by Bruce & Erin Upstead Great American Epic is a classroom and after-school podcasting experience that creates student agency in the American Dream by helping students identify and celebrate the core American values. All to answer the question: What makes America great? In creating student podcasts, we are not asking students what will…
By Michael Peterson (Coach Mike), teacher, Abraham Stockton School Knowing the Neighborhood I’m an educator at Abraham Stockton School, PS 297, in Brooklyn teaching fifth-grade kids aged 10/11 about wellness – everything from the physical to emotional and social wellness. I grew up in the very same neighborhood that the school is in. We are…
Shedthemusic’s Production Through Performance curriculum is a new take on the music technology class. The student-centered course uses a flipped classroom philosophy to deliver an exciting method of learning how to create pop music using the piano keyboard as the primary instrument. There are twenty-eight projects that are separated into six units covering the basics of how…
Guest blog post by Zach Diamond, Music and Music in Spanish Teacher to 6th-9th graders at DC International School. Listen to this: No, this little song isn’t perfect. It wouldn’t get played on the radio – if we’re nitpicking, maybe the gain’s a little high on the voice; the sounds the girls make before they sing should…