Webinar: Spreadsheet Tips to Efficiently Run Your Ensembles and Classes

Presenter: Don Nguyen

Running ensembles and teaching general music both require excellent organizational skills. In this session, you will learn how you can use spreadsheets to efficiently track attendance, inventory instruments and your music library, send mass personalized communication to parents, quickly see how many students are in each section, manage your ensemble’s budget, produce personalized documents for students, quickly prepare names for your concert program, and much more.

Don Nguyen teaches 5th and 6th grade general music and directs the 5th grade band and 5th-12th grade percussion ensemble at Upper Merion Area Middle School in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. He received his Bachelor of Music in Music Education and his Bachelor of Arts in Spanish in 2021 and his Graduate Certificate in ESL Teaching in 2022 from West Chester University of Pennsylvania. He is certified to teach Music K-12, Spanish K-12, and ESL K-12 and is now completing his Master of Arts in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages.

NAfME presents this live virtual event at no charge to all as a service to the music education profession. To register, you must enter your NAfME member information or create a nonmember account. After registering, check your email for instructions. A recording of this program will be available to all registrants for one week following the live event. Members can also view archived NAfME webinars in the NAfME Academy. The views expressed are those of the presenter; they do not necessarily reflect the views of NAfME.