Creative Piano Pedagogy

🥳 SURPRISE! Need some ear training activities for upcoming fall lessons or group classes that work for every age/level? Looking for a visual schedule to use in lessons and keep your students on track? Browsing for a few new, unique resources to engage students in lessons without breaking the budget?

We. 👏 Got. 👏 You. 👊

✏️ From August 1-15 you can snag ANY AND ALL of our digital teaching resources 20% off- no coupon needed!

…..but the super fun part? We’re including that discount for Teacher Consults and the beloved Adaptive Piano Pedagogy 101 course! 🤩

✏️ just head on over to www.creativepianopedagogy.com to snag some deals (link also in bio)

☺️💙 thank you SO much for supporting our small business! Every like/share/comment/note of encouragement/purchase of any amount helps support the CPP Podcast, blog, and everything we do to help encourage and support our fellow teachers 🫶

We only have a couple of spots left for the 2026 Piano Teacher Reset! Would you like a few days (only a couple of hours a day) to meet with a small group of teachers in a relaxing and encouraging workshop-style environment? And you can even stay in your PJs! Join us on Monday, July 27-29 to reset your creative soul!

💻 head on over to www.creativepianopedagogy.com to register!

For episode 29, we're taking a slight pause from our normal podcast programming to share a quick and encouraging reminder to create community with your colleagues! This week's challenge: take a colleague to coffee! ☕ Get to know a new teacher to your organization or community, or meet with someone you'd like to get to know better! We'd love to hear about it! Back to our normally scheduled programming soon... 😉

😮‍💨 Burnout is no joke...especially for creative musicians. The old saying "You can't pour from an empty cup" is 💯 accurate.

Whether you're currently in a season of burnout, working through it, or just feeling creatively exhausted- we'd love to invite you to our upcoming virtual Piano Teacher Reset Retreat.

No travel plans, no airports or connecting flights. Just 3 days of connecting, learning, and creating together to remember your "Why" to channel your creativity into improvising and composing at the piano.

At the end of big conferences, we leave with crumpled handouts and a brain full of so much information that it can be overwhelming. At the end of the Improvisation Reset, you'll leave with recordings and resources from every session and workshop, a clear map of strategies to help YOU stay connected to music and sustainable ways to help your students use improvising and composing!

Comment BURNOUT and we'll send over the link with the retreat schedule and registration so you can save your spot while seats are still available. We can't wait to Reset together. 🌊

How many times have we witnessed teachers be critical and quick to judge their colleagues, often behind a screen on social media? 🙋‍♀️ What if we were intentional about building each other up and creating community? Come listen to our heartfelt discussion and find out what our challenge is for YOU! ☕ You can find our latest episode on your preferred podcast platform!

🇺🇸 “America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.” -Harry S. Truman

❤️ grateful for all the amazing people who make our country great

🤍 for the incredible ingenuity, diversity of thoughts/talents and imagination in our students

💙 and for all the teachers, both in the U.S. and abroad- who contribute their collective kindness, creativity and imaginative problem-solving to the music and piano teaching profession

🇺🇸 Happy 250, America!

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🥳 Help us wish a very Happy Birthday to Tara! 🎂

Tara is often working behind-the-scenes, problem-solving and doing important things like

🎈 creating our community portals + helping with login or purchase issues
🎈 working her website magic to create beautiful visual experiences with smooth checkout processes for guests
🎈 problem-solving and fixing tech issues for everything from website to emails to member logins to glitches that make our eyes crossed 🤪
🎈 working quietly and efficiently to make sure our Book Club, podcast, courses, upcoming summer retreat (and much more!) go smoothly

Tara is a true gem of a person, a wonderfully compassionate teacher and I’m so grateful to have her at CPP! Happiest of birthdays, Tara! Hope your coffee is extra delicious today 🥳

🤪When my piano looks like this, you know it’s been a fun day…truly! What a joy to teach first lessons to two new students this week (one bright, energetic young beginner + one lovely transfer student.)

The mess on the piano is reflective of our first lessons together:

🪄 using fun activities to explore rhythm, movement, learning to sit at the piano, singing and improvising together to see all the magic that music has to offer

✨ and helping ignite a spark in a sweet student who has worked so hard the past several years in piano, but never really felt a connection to the music they’ve played.

What a delightfully fun task to bring out ALL the music, play/listen together and rate it to see what they liked- and witness their complete surprise when they heard jazz and ragtime for the first time (they’re hooked!)!

My favorite moments were when the youngest new musician said “your clock is a trickster” when I announced that the lesson had to stop, and when the sweet older student (grinning widely) asked to borrow music to take home this week! 🤩 Mess on the piano= signs of joy, musicing and beautiful discovery.

😀 what do you love about those first piano lessons?