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The schedule is (almost!) finalized, the arrangements for the finale performance are coming together, and our education team is striving to make our upcoming National Teacher Training Summits in Austin and ...
We are extremely pleased to share our newest resource with you:
Let's Play! is a web-based application that offers a progressive series of classical guitar solos, in braille and traditional notation, with audio guides that focus on guitar technique and braille music literacy.
For the past six...
In recent months we've seen a rise in employment opportunities for classroom guitar teachers. So much so that we added a Jobs Section to our Teacher Forum to keep you all up to date on the latest openings across the United States. In fact, a new job opening in New Mexico was just added this week!
We had a particularly...
Last week, the National Endowment for the Arts wrote a spotlight of the St. Louis Classical Guitar Society program, "Guitar Horizons", which was the recipient of an FY18 NEA grant. Our colleagues in St. Louis are the force behind this musical initiative to heal a community...
The Cleveland Classical Guitar Society was recently featured in a radio story that highlighted the tremendous success of their education programs. We got a chance to speak with their executive director, Erik Mann, who offered some insights into his organization's achievements.
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Dear Guitar Education Colleagues,
It is a truly remarkable time to be in guitar education.
Two separate partner districts wrote me this week with stories of significant, vertically aligned (elementary-high school), program growth. All month we’ve been adding new full time job openings for guitar educators across the country to our new...
By Jeremy Osborne
One of the benefits of teaching guitar at the Gardner-Betts Juvenile Justice Center is getting to witness the high rate of positive change that learning music brings to my students. Music has the unique ability to provide an honest experience in which the students’ hard work brings them legitimate recognition. For many of my students, this has never happened before. I...
GuitarCurriculum.com is used by teachers in classrooms around the world, including at the Gardner Betts Juvenile Justice Center in Central Texas where Austin Classical Guitar (ACG) offers daily guitar ensemble classes for youth who are incarcerated. Many of the students in this program have at one time or another found themselves in the...
Dear Guitar Education Colleagues,
We asked one of our favorite guitar education leaders, Dr. Kevin Vigil from Loudoun County, Virginia, to share some thoughts about how he prepares for a new school year. Wow, are we glad we did! These are awesome, and we hope you find them helpful too. More on Kevin and his program is online here...
In 2006, Pushpa Basnet founded the Early Childhood Development Center, a special home in Nepal for children whose parents are incarcerated. Due to overcrowding in Nepal’s orphanages, these young people are often left to live with their parents in prison or by themselves on the streets. In recognition of her work, she was chosen as CNN’s Hero of the Year in...