Music Ed Forward Podcast
The Music Ed Forward podcast empowers teachers and arts leaders understand the possibilities and overcome the challenges within music education. How do we create meaningful learning opportunities for students that will stick with them? How do we design professional learning opportunities for teachers that make curriculum come alive for students? Nyssa walks with you, step by step, uniting frameworks and theory with daily classroom practice with inspiration and ease. Need some encouragement to continue your journey as an innovative music educator? You’ve come to the right place! Join the global Music Ed Forward community in transforming students, teachers and communities through music education. More info at musicedforward.com
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 38 minutes
- Episodes
- 24
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2022
Music Education for Social Change - interview with Dr. Juliet Hess
Dr. Juliet Hess offers both theory and practical suggestions about how music classrooms are uniquely poised to inspire and support social change at the intersections of activism, critical pedagogy, a…
Music Education and SEL: The Heart of Teaching Music
As music educators, we are well aware of the importance of Social Emotional Learning (SEL), especially in the wake of pandemic learning and teaching. But what might it look like in the music classro…
Do Your Students Know (Your Why)?
Do students know why you show up at school every day? Could sharing your “why” help you connect with students - and possibly even invite more student agency in your classroom? This episode contains…
Empowering Student Voice and Centering Joy in Black Lives Matter and AAPI Communities - interview with Alice Tsui
Alice Tsui joins us on the podcast this week to talk about how to create brave spaces that empower student and collective voice while centering joy in Black Lives Matter and AAPI communities. Alice’s…
Visioning Forward: Centering Students, Facing Fear, and Reshaping Music Education - interview with Maria A. Ellis
From start to finish in this podcast, Girl Conductor - Ms. Maria A. Ellis - offers her wisdom, passion, and sheer joy in teaching and learning! Maria shares how she starts classes the first time she …
Imperative Curriculum Re-Design in Music Ed: 3 Ways to Adjust Course Now and in the Future
As music educators, we’ve learned too much this past year to go back to “normal,” as soon as pandemic safety allows. From the lessons of pandemic teaching to the anti-bias/anti-racist lessons learned…
Claiming Agency for Change: Inspiring the Music Educators of Tomorrow” - interview with Dr. Carlos Abril
Dr. Carlos Abril joins us in the podcast today to talk about the current role - and the potential future impact - of colleges and universities in moving music education forward. He has a clear and c…
T.H.U.G. L.I.F.E- The Hate U Give Little Instruments F***s Education - Part II - interview with Jasmine Fripp
In part 2 of this conversation with The Passionate Black Educator, Jasmine Fripp, highlights the importance of music educators being fluent in diverse styles of music in order to serve and empower ou…
T.H.U.G. L.I.F.E. - The Hate U Give Little Instruments F***s Education
In this episode, Jasmine Fripp, The Passionate Black Educator, talks about the ways music educators, our music classrooms, and our music curricula “give hate” - whether we are aware of it or not. Ja…
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Access: What’s the Hold-Up? - an interview with Dr. Karen Howard
Shouldn’t diversity, equity, inclusion, and access be central to all of our learning with students and teachers? Dr. Karen Howard shares context and practices to further diversity, equity, inclusion,…
Resilience and Equity- an interview with Elena Aguilar
In this episode, Elena Aguilar shares her journey as a transformational coach and how she works with coaches. Elena’s coaching and consulting work lead her to write a book about resilience, seeing ho…
"Onward" - A Resilience Read
Ready for some practical, tried-and-true, made-for-teachers resilience advice? Me too! This podcast shares some of the highlights of Elena Aguilar’s book “Onward: Cultivating Emotional Resilience in…
Tools to Calm the Nervous System
How can we shift the nervous system when it gets locked into fight-flight mode? This podcast has simple, quick, practical tools to help you move into “rest and digest” mode. And we can ALL use that …
Real Life Resilience for Pandemic Music Teachers - An Interview with Kate Webster
This week Dr. Kate Webster shares her experience of pandemic teaching, self-care, and resilience as inspired by her experiences as a Music Educator, Runner, Yoga Teacher, and Mom. Kate's easy-going, …
Strengthening Self-Compassion and Resilience with Fran Prolman
What is the difference between self-care and self-compassion - and why does it matter? What is working for teachers and school communities around the world as we see to strengthen resilience? This …
5 Resilience Building Strategies for 2021
We made it to 2021. Now what? This new beginning to a new year has been long-awaited and long needed. This podcast outlines 5 Resilience Building Strategies for us personally and professionally, as w…
What 2020 Has Taught Me - Part 3: We Can. We Have. And We Will.
We can. We have. And we will. Although we didn’t wish for it, 2020 and this pandemic has shown us, as music educators, what is possible as we have united to support one another, our students, and ou…
What 2020 Has Taught Me - Part 2: I Believe in the Inner Gold
2020 and pandemic teaching has caused many teachers to question their effectiveness, suitability for the profession, and - in difficult moments - their worth as a teacher. This podcast takes head-on…
What 2020 Has Taught Me - Part 1: I Can Do Things Differently
2020 has included countless challenges - and we have learned a lot. Part of 1 of this 3-part series outlines how teaching necessarily looks differently - and how our mindset has to be open to those …
The Power of Mindset in Online Learning
Moving from classroom instruction to online learning takes translation. Our mindset about priorities and possibilities will, in large part, determine our experience, as well as our students’ experie…