Professional Excitement

 After a full year of working on it, my piano/voice and voice only curriculum are completed!

At Kansas City School of Music the kiddos don't use the typical method books for beginning piano.  Scott and a couple of other teachers came together and designed their own curriculumn that combined all the things they liked for the different method books.  The binder contains the equivalent of the primer level and level 1.  It spends a lot more time on prestaff notes while focusing on technique and form.  My task was to come up with an equivalent for voice.  Young vocal students are required to learn piano at KCSM, because Scott values literacy.  He wants the voice students to be musically literate which is often a problem with vocalists.  About half of my students are combination piano and voice students.  I also have several students who originally came to KCSM to learn piano and then decided they also wanted to practice voice.  They continue on with their piano teacher and I start teaching them voice.  I put together a separate binder for those students.  It's taken a lot of time and revisions, but I finally have a finished project, and all of my students now have their respective binder.  I'm sure I'll have to continue to revise it as I use it more, but I'm thrilled to have such a large undertaking done!