My thanks to Tad Greig and the Westminster College Wind Ensemble for their recording of “Rising Winds from the Valley”. The piece written for the Seneca Valley Freshmen Concert Band debuts tonight under the direction of good friends and colleagues Varden Armstrong and Bob Matchett. The piece is now available from Bandworks, alongside great music from Patrick J. Burns and […]
A busy week begins at school tomorrow (after an unexpected four day layoff on Doctor’s orders), then a trip to Kent State. On Wednesday I will be leaving for Hershey, Pa. for the PMEA 2011 State Conference. I will be presenting on Thursday about “Raising the E.E.Q. (Ethical and Emotional Quotient) of Your Ensemble” at 2:00 p.m. If you cannot […]
What does it mean to say a school is making “adequate yearly progress”? What is the value of a standardized test that produces an aggregate score for a group of students in one school and has it compared in the local newspaper against scores from another? How does student performance on a standardized exam relate to future vocational aspirations? […]
I don’t even know where to begin after the last 30 days, but it has been exciting, thought-provoking, reflective, and emotional.
