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I have to say that our staff hired two recent college grads who are about ten years younger than the rest of the faculty and wow it is such a breath of fresh air. Inexperience can be a beautiful energy.

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A child just walked into my room and looked awed to realize I was playing “Popular” on recorder if anyone needs an ego boost today

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What’s the queer community version of “inviting someone to the cookout”?

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This is a message for singers only but some days I wish I could just take off my jaw and hang it on the wall for a while ya know?

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I was very lucky to receive an ulu knife and curved cutting board and when I tell you it is the best pill cutter…

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Celebrating #SuperbOwlSunday by sharing some of my owl paintings! #ArtYear #SciArt #owl #BirdArt #Painting #Watercolor #onlybeautifulthings

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I am so sick. I have not been this sick in a minute. And there is no way in hell I’m missing school tomorrow because we’re zooming with the astronauts stuck in space. Imma show up masked in the back of the auditorium and disappear like the phantom of the space opera

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I really hate that one of the undeniable signs I’m about to be massively sick is that I start effusively praising and complimenting everyone around me. It’s like my brain knows sick is coming and gives all my final words to my friends/coworkers.

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Every year when my kids start ukulele we do a month long unit on music from Hawaii/Samoa/Cook Islands and Māori music. Then we study how Hawaii was colonized and how the ukulele came to be. This year, reading this history aloud feels extra awful.

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My cats have independently taught themselves to pee directly into the floor drain in my basement…it feels like I should stop them but actually it’s amazing?

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Yes that would be flagging all research about “females”

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“Different Trains” came on shuffle and I immediately thought “uh oh Same Trains”

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As school positions open up, don’t forget there’s a difference between Progressive Education/Progressive Schools and progressive education/progressive schools. Capitals are a theory, uncapitalized is a mindset.

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They’re available for new music concerts in 2025!

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(cw suicide) i probably think about this image set more than anything else i saw on tumblr a decade ago. That's Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy btw.

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Another day, another weird recorder curriculum find

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If you see this, quote with a bridge from your gallery.

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As the transgender community continues to fight for civil rights in the U.S., one of the most common arguments against progress is that transgender people are a recent phenomenon. But it’s a fight that’s been happening here for decades and around the world for centuries. ⤵️

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99% I love my unbelievable variety of options for grocery shopping and then sometimes I want Golden Curry cubes but I went to the Mexican/Polish/Korean store instead of the Mexican/Romanian/Japanese store and so my quest is failed

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Sadly Listlessly Opening YouTube Instead

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We’ve reached the dangerous point in the school year where I start wondering if I can put things off until the school year ends so I never have to do them

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I created a project two years ago and it involves a lot of organization and work and unfortunately the children love it and I have to do it forever now…

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Only 85 more individualized student narratives about twice weekly music classes to go… 40% done!

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We don’t do grades, we write individual narratives for every student and it can be a very nebulous little system…but believe me there is a very different meaning if I call your child “inquisitive” vs “curious”

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Cat wants to sit in my lap while I write but also wants to paw at my face for love so unfortunately he is in cuddle jail now…

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BLTs are a breakfast food. No further questions.

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Smoll one really likes the snow

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Feel like musical theater is missing more songs specifically designed for me to sing to my dog (obviously all songs can be for my dog with the right mindset) www.youtube.com/watch?v=k79f...

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My three year old is feeling very sorry for my partner who is neither in preschool nor an elementary school music teacher and so he doesn’t get to dance at work.

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Also please if anyone has an omnichord to sell me for less than $500 me and my students would love to make beautiful (and magical, and silly, and probably some terrible,)music.

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I am going through the remainders of our 100+ year old school’s music curricula collection and there are some amazing gems and there are some things that went straight in the trash and made me feel icky to have touched

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Aggressive approach from this old recorder curriculum…

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The secret to parenting in a cold place might just be the indoor nature center with playground membership

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KICK OFF THE NEW YEAR WITH THE INTERNET ARCHIVE! 🍾 Starting at 12:01am ET, we'll be revealing the creative works from 1929 and sound recordings from 1924 that are entering the public domain in the US. Learn how you can celebrate throughout January: blog.archive.org/2024/12/26/c...

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Bringing my annual post about Paul Hindemith's hand-drawn Christmas cards over here this year.... I encountered these in 2013 at the Sacher Foundation where they don't let you take pictures, but a bunch of them are online! I did my best with the alt text. www.hindemith.info/en/life-work...

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Early morning Christmas assistant

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