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The 2026 results will greatly change the makeup of the 120th Congress and legislatures across the country. Here is what we might expect for the impact on education.
Musicianship is the disciplined and imaginative capacity to understand, create, organize, and communicate through sound in ways that contribute meaningfully to human experience.
Rethinking musical ability is not just about classroom practice but also about how qualifications are structured, how success is measured, and how the curriculum is shaped.
The opportunity is not merely to become better musicians. It is to become better at understanding where our musicianship can make a difference.
“Whatever the format, my most important strategy is to start early and move from big choices to small ones.”
The rubric’s job is not to reduce artistry to checkboxes. It is to make your expectations visible so students can aim at something real. Here are three sample rows from my own program.
The fundamentals of our work (ensemble, mentorship, the shared discipline of making something beautiful together) travel well beyond the walls of a traditional school.
Teach as if the person in front of you is the whole point, because in that room, finally and truly, they are. That is not a lesser pedagogy. It might be the truest one we have.
Every school has a story. Every community has a story. And sometimes, the most powerful stories are the ones that are rewritten by its children.
This article argues that delivery is itself a creative act and offers a practical five-phase arc teachers can run across a semester.