Walk a mile in your neighbor’s shoes: Diversity in the teaching studio
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Perspectives: Diversity in the teaching studio
January 2017; Vol. 9, No. 1
Walk a mile in your neighbor’s shoes: Diversity in the teaching studio by Rachel Kramer and Bennyce Hamilton Music is the universal language. This phrase has been in my vocabulary since I was young enough to understand what it meant. As I have become a...
A moment that makes a difference
July 2014; Vol. 6, No. 4
Teaching music to prison inmates is exactly 30.8 miles from my front door in suburbia to the thick metal door of the Warren Correctional Institution, home to 1,400 male inmates. On my scheduled teaching days, I arrive with my contractor badge and clear plastic bag and wait...
Walk a mile in your neighbor’s shoes: Gender issues in piano teaching
May 2016; Vol. 8, No. 3
Change, learning, and growth are able to happen when conversations begin. Conversations about what I think, and what you think, and how I feel, and how you feel rarely happen in this screen-crazy, busy world we live in. Yet, there are often important questions looming...