August 4, 2025 • 15 mins
In this episode, I’m sharing the questions I asked myself after a year that looked successful on paper but felt… off. I had full classes, amazing students, and met my income goals. But something wasn’t quite right.
So I reworked my schedule. I rethought how many students I actually want to teach, what formats bring me the most energy, and how I define success on my terms.
If you’ve ever found yourself filling every available time slot, feeling like more students equals more success, or wondering how to protect your joy while paying the bills, you’re not alone.
This one’s for you.
Mentioned in this episode:
My Music Staff 60-day free trial: www.mymusicstaff.com/scrappypianoteacher
Episode 50 on Profit First: go back and listen if you want to rethink how you organize your studio finances
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Keywords: piano teaching, studio management, music education, teaching strategies, group lessons, private lessons, teacher support, teacher burnout, teaching methods, self-care
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(00:00):
Hello, howdy, hi, welcome to theScrappy Piano teacher podcast.
If you are new here, welcome. My name is Jacqueline Rosick.
You can call me Jackie. And this podcast is for teachers
who are in need of teacher talk with someone who's perfectly
happy to be imperfect and find humor as we chug along creating
(00:20):
music and magic for our students.
I love helping teachers find clarity and sustainability in
their students and prep for thatinevitable burnout that sneaks
up even when things look good onpaper.
And that's kind of what today's episode is all about.
But before we dive into studio numbers and lesson formats and
(00:41):
whether you're quote UN quote doing enough, I need to tell you
about how my 5 hour drive home from NCKP turned into a 24 hour
adventure of error codes, Skippo, and a lot of car
craziness. But first, I need to tell you
about NCKP. Guys, it was amazing.
(01:01):
I got to meet up with online teacher friends and give them
super big hugs. I got to attend some really
great sessions and I left with much needed clarity.
I really needed clarity. I needed it.
And I got it for the upcoming school year, which I'm going to
tell you about in this episode today.
Now for those of you who have never been, NCKP is held every
(01:22):
other year in Lombard, which is just outside of Chicago, IL.
It's all about piano pedagogy and I always, always leave super
duper inspired. If you did not go this year and
you're able to go in 2027, put it on your list.
Even the virtual option is totally worth it if you simply
cannot make it in person. Rewinding just a little bit,
(01:45):
just a little bit. Back in March, I recently got a
fully electric 2025 Chevy Equinox.
I love this car. It is smooth, it is quiet, it's
perfect for local driving I do around town.
I've got a huge sunroof. Oh, it's so big.
I love it. So I thought why not take it on
my first real road trip when going to Chicago.
(02:07):
And if I went, that part was fine.
On the way up there, totally fine.
Stop a charging station, charge it up is great.
But on the way home, completely different story because the car
wouldn't charge. Just wouldn't charge.
So me and my roommate, Jill. Hi, Jill.
Yeah, we tried. Oh, gosh.
It was six or seven different charging stations.
(02:28):
We could not get this stinking car to charge for the life of
us. Yeah, We ended up at a Chevy
dealership in Lombard, close to that area, and fortunately it
did charge a smidge. But I will tell you that the
staff was not very helpful. If anything, they thought I was
crazy. So thank goodness I was taking
(02:49):
pictures of error codes and calling my own sales dealer, the
guy who sold me the car in Marchbecause he was my helper.
But anyway, they weren't helpful, but they did help me
get a charge. So by this point, it's really,
really late. We have to stop and get another
charge in order to make it. So we're going to stop at the
same place that we did on the way up because we knew that that
(03:12):
charging station worked. And this charging station was in
Lafayette, IN. So we get to Lafayette, it is
definitely time to charge. We're not going to make it much
farther. And guess what?
The charging station that workedbefore did not work.
And so we drove around. We're trying some other stuff.
We tried Tesla stuff. We tried anyway.
It didn't work. Didn't work.
(03:33):
And then we go back to the original charging station and we
kind of sit there. It was in a Walmart parking lot.
And this is me and my roomie, Jill.
A shout out to Jill Jansen because I'm telling you, there
was no better person on the planet to get put in this
situation with than her. She was so great.
But we're sitting there in the Walmart parking lot looking at
each other like, what are we going to do?
So we try the charging station one more time and it works like
(03:56):
what is going on? So by this point it is late.
It is late, and the car is telling me that I'm going to
have to stop three more times tocharge in order to make it home,
which you guys is not normal if you don't drive an electric car.
I'm telling you that that is notnormal.
Those of you who drive electric cars, you should be nodding with
me being like, yeah, that's weird.
(04:17):
So we make the decision to get ahotel because it's late, we
don't want to get stranded in the middle of nowhere and we
just wanted to play it safe. We played Skippo, we may have
had a cocktail because I'm sorryif you go through that, you're
totally justified in getting a cocktail.
And we got some sleep and a great breakfast the next
morning. So, I mean, counting our
(04:39):
blessings here. Now, after breakfast, we load up
the car and we're like, OK, we're going to do this.
It was a beautiful day. We're going to make this work.
And I kid you not, as I'm pulling the car out of the
parking lot of that hotel, I knew immediately that the car
was fine because I know that car, I've been driving it for a
few months. We've kind of, you know,
(05:01):
developed a bit of a relationship here.
And yeah, I looked at Jill and Iwas like, I'm pretty sure that
the car reset itself or something.
And sure enough, it was fine. It was fine.
On the way home. I took it to the dealership the
next day. They kept it for a few days and
gave me a loaner. Fortunately, I had all the
pictures of all the error codes and all the messages that it was
giving me. And so they believed me.
(05:23):
They didn't think I was nuts or crazy, but they ended up, you
know, resetting it, doing all the things, and car is fine now.
Yeah. Anyway, it took us 24 hours, so
I dropped Jill off first. I got home at 4:30 PM on Sunday
afternoon, over 24 hours after we had departed from Chicago.
(05:44):
So Needless to say, when I pulled in the garage and my
husband came out to give me a hug, I was a mess and I cried a
lot. Whatever.
I have a point to this, I promise.
Because to me, the entire experience is kind of like a
metaphor for my teaching life over the past year.
Because here is the truth. You can have everything working
(06:05):
on the outside, a full studio, your dream schedule system
someplace, and still maybe feel like something's not quite
right. Because burnout, that dreaded
word, doesn't always show up like a big bursting fire.
Sometimes it's those weird little error messages where
you're like this isn't right what is going on?
(06:27):
And the more you try to push through and the more it doesn't
work, eventually just kind of shuts down and you realize you
need a reset. So on to my point.
This past year I had finally built what I thought was it with
my studio. The dream setup.
I had 7 full group classes. I had a handful of private
(06:48):
students I loved and adored, allwith 45 minute lessons because I
love me a 45 minute private lesson.
I had a waiting list that was just thick and juicy and
wonderful and financially I had more than hit my goals.
So yay, Jackie, right? Looks like success.
Sounds like success. Smells like success.
(07:09):
But inside something was just off.
I was a lesson planning constantly.
I was switching gears all day from my group prep, then my
private prep, multi level juggling.
I was researching, I was tweaking, I was staying up late.
I was also running this podcast,I was meeting with teachers.
I'm creating resources, managingall the behind the scenes
(07:31):
projects. So yes, I know whose fault is
that. It's my fault.
I get it, I get it, I get it. But at some point it started to
feel like I really wasn't teaching anymore when it came to
my studio. I was managing, I was directing,
and I was leading, but I wasn't really connecting.
And, you know, I will say that my students really held through.
(07:51):
I don't think they even noticed that I was going through
whatever I was going through because they were playing
beautifully. They were doing the work, the
recitals were great, everybody'shappy, parents are happy,
everything's good. But I knew something was off and
it took me a while to figure outwhat it was.
And I've realized that I I wasn't nurturing, I wasn't
really doing the teaching that Ihave learned to love and do.
(08:15):
I would I didn't have the ability to track each student's
growth, not just their performances, but who they were
as musicians day-to-day. I can't even explain it now, but
let's just say that I wasn't being fulfilled as a teacher.
And I do want to be clear about something.
I am not anti group. I fully support group lessons.
(08:36):
I love group lessons. I believe in Group teaching.
I've seen it work beautifully. I know so many teachers who
thrive in that format and I again, fully support it.
But this year, it just was not the right fit for me.
I wasn't showing up the way thatI wanted to show up.
And when that started to happen consistently more than not, I
(08:57):
knew it was time to make a change.
So I decided for this next year going forward, I'm going to make
some tough but very necessary decisions.
So I raised my rates, which wasn't tough that needed to be
done, but I raised my rates. I added more flex weeks to give
myself more breathing room, which again, not tough.
Knew I needed that one. But was what was tough is I
(09:18):
broke all my group lessons up into buddy lessons.
So instead of groups of four, I'm now going to have groups of
two. And I stopped accepting new
students. I totally did away with my
waiting list. All the new students I have been
turning away and handing over toother teachers and you guys,
that has been the hardest thing.I have worked so hard on my SEO
(09:43):
on my website. Inquiries have been flowing.
I see potential in every messagethat lands in my inbox.
And I want to say yes to everyone, but I had to remind
myself that I am not the only teacher in the world.
These students don't need me perSE.
They need a great teacher that'sgoing to fit them.
And I am surrounded by them. I have amazing teachers all
(10:09):
around me that are happy to takestudents, and I really had to
get honest about my capacity. I think that when you're
planning your studio, it's so easy to default to how do I fill
every possible hour, every nook and cranny?
And questions can trick us into thinking that more equals
(10:30):
better. So let me offer a better set of
questions. How many students can I serve
well before I lose my joy of teaching?
What formats actually energize me instead of draining me?
Maybe groups energize you and you need those.
Maybe it's just probably lessons.
Maybe you're like me and buddy lessons are the sweet thing.
(10:52):
Am I designing a studio that works on paper but not in my
real life? And most importantly, what's my
version of enough? It is not a badge of honor to be
burned out all the time. So I'm going to walk you through
a quick little we'll call it a framework.
Ask yourself, what's your monthly financial need with
(11:14):
margin for profit first? You guys, if you missed my
episode on profit first, I can reference it in the show notes.
So let's say that you just want 3000 a month.
That is going to include what you're going to pay yourself,
what you set aside for taxes, what you're going to reinvest
into your studio, and what you save later on for your bonus
profit. Another question, how many hours
(11:36):
do you want to teach each week, realistically?
So let's say you want 20 hours aweek.
It's 80 hours a month. OK, now divide your goal by your
time. So 3 grand divided by 80 hours,
that's $37, $0.50 an hour. So are your current rates giving
you that return? If you, if not, I mean,
obviously you can raise your rates.
(11:57):
You can shift your formats to buddy lessons or groups to up
that number. You can cut your admin time by
putting better systems in place,which you guys know, I love my
systems. So it's not always about
teaching more. It's really about teaching
smarter. And most importantly, with
margin, because I want to be totally real.
(12:18):
Being overwhelmed is not impressive.
It is not a bragging right. Wearing yourself thin without
breaks is not a badge of honor. It is a recipe for burnout.
Even when everything looks fine,it's not fine.
Success is not all about fillingyour calendar.
It's building a studio that supports your real life, not one
that's going to consume it. Now, if you are in the season of
(12:41):
reevaluating like I was, I do want to point you to two things.
If you're reworking your studio structure, I have my policy
workbook. It's not just a template.
There is a template, but it's not just a template.
It's going to walk you through what a studio policy really is
and is not. There is a comparison chart to
help you decide what fits. Again, there is a policy
template, there is my free calendar template, and there are
(13:04):
waivers in there as well. So that's on sale right now at
Scrappy pianoteacher.com. Another thing that might help
you is the August Scrappy session, which is on August 15th
of 2025. It's at 11:30 AM Eastern Time.
And what we're going to be doingis we're going to be working on
standard operating procedures. So, SO.
(13:26):
PS we're going to do them in Google Docs, but also templates
in my music staff because most of the people that I work with
tend to work with my music staff.
I'm pretty sure that my music staff is the only software that
has templates in it. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I
don't think the other ones have that.
So if you want to try my music staff, if you don't have it, I
do have a 60 day free trial link.
(13:49):
Normally they only give a 30 dayfree trial link.
So if you're wanting to try thatout, I have a code.
It's mymusicstaff.com/scrappy Piano teacher.
Again, it'll give you 60 days for free.
So you're welcome to have that up and running before you come
to the Scrappy session, but you don't have to because we're
going to be doing it in Google Docs as well.
So this will have admin systems to help you coast through your
(14:12):
burnout season instead of collapsing during it.
So it's going to set you up for the whole year.
OK, so back to what I'm talking about though.
How many students do you really need?
How many students do you need? How many students do you need to
consider yourself to have a successful studio?
Do you want to know the number that I heard the most at the
NCKP? Because I asked this question a
(14:33):
lot to a lot of teachers and 25 seem to be the magic number.
Now, is that your magic number? Well, only you can answer that,
but I hope so. This episode can give you a few
ways to go honest with yourself.Like I had to get honest with
myself. It's not just about numbers, you
guys. Let's not compare.
I have 80 students and I work five days a week, six days a
(14:55):
week, seven days a week, and I have no breaks.
I'm so happy. No, you're not.
Don't give me that. If you want margin, that doesn't
make you lazy, OK? That doesn't make you an
unsuccessful teacher, all right?The success is what you define
it to be. You're not wrong for saying no
to more. You're allowed to find joy
again, even if it means making changes that no one else sees
(15:17):
coming. So I hope that gives you guys
some encouragement. As far as how many numbers of
students verse how much to make,it's so hard.
It's not hard sometimes to really figure out that number
because we want to take all the students.
Like give me a yeah, I'll teach your student.
I'll teach you. No, no, no, I'll take you.
I'll take you. No, no, you don't need them.
(15:37):
You don't need them all. So with that, I would like to
know what your magic number is. What is your magic number?
Do you know it? Have you found something that
works beautifully for you and you've stuck with it over the
years? I want to know.
So with that, I hope you guys have a great week.
I'll talk to you later and keep teaching.
Keep and keep doing all the things and I'll talk to you guys
(15:57):
soon. Bye.
Hello, howdy, hi, welcome to theScrappy Piano teacher podcast.
If you are new here, welcome. My name is Jacqueline Rosick.
You can call me Jackie. And this podcast is for teachers
who are in need of teacher talk with someone who's perfectly
happy to be imperfect and find humor as we chug along creating
(00:20):
music and magic for our students.
I love helping teachers find clarity and sustainability in
their students and prep for thatinevitable burnout that sneaks
up even when things look good onpaper.
And that's kind of what today's episode is all about.
But before we dive into studio numbers and lesson formats and
(00:41):
whether you're quote UN quote doing enough, I need to tell you
about how my 5 hour drive home from NCKP turned into a 24 hour
adventure of error codes, Skippo, and a lot of car
craziness. But first, I need to tell you
about NCKP. Guys, it was amazing.
(01:01):
I got to meet up with online teacher friends and give them
super big hugs. I got to attend some really
great sessions and I left with much needed clarity.
I really needed clarity. I needed it.
And I got it for the upcoming school year, which I'm going to
tell you about in this episode today.
Now for those of you who have never been, NCKP is held every
(01:22):
other year in Lombard, which is just outside of Chicago, IL.
It's all about piano pedagogy and I always, always leave super
duper inspired. If you did not go this year and
you're able to go in 2027, put it on your list.
Even the virtual option is totally worth it if you simply
cannot make it in person. Rewinding just a little bit,
(01:45):
just a little bit. Back in March, I recently got a
fully electric 2025 Chevy Equinox.
I love this car. It is smooth, it is quiet, it's
perfect for local driving I do around town.
I've got a huge sunroof. Oh, it's so big.
I love it. So I thought why not take it on
my first real road trip when going to Chicago.
(02:07):
And if I went, that part was fine.
On the way up there, totally fine.
Stop a charging station, charge it up is great.
But on the way home, completely different story because the car
wouldn't charge. Just wouldn't charge.
So me and my roommate, Jill. Hi, Jill.
Yeah, we tried. Oh, gosh.
It was six or seven different charging stations.
(02:28):
We could not get this stinking car to charge for the life of
us. Yeah, We ended up at a Chevy
dealership in Lombard, close to that area, and fortunately it
did charge a smidge. But I will tell you that the
staff was not very helpful. If anything, they thought I was
crazy. So thank goodness I was taking
(02:49):
pictures of error codes and calling my own sales dealer, the
guy who sold me the car in Marchbecause he was my helper.
But anyway, they weren't helpful, but they did help me
get a charge. So by this point, it's really,
really late. We have to stop and get another
charge in order to make it. So we're going to stop at the
same place that we did on the way up because we knew that that
(03:12):
charging station worked. And this charging station was in
Lafayette, IN. So we get to Lafayette, it is
definitely time to charge. We're not going to make it much
farther. And guess what?
The charging station that workedbefore did not work.
And so we drove around. We're trying some other stuff.
We tried Tesla stuff. We tried anyway.
It didn't work. Didn't work.
(03:33):
And then we go back to the original charging station and we
kind of sit there. It was in a Walmart parking lot.
And this is me and my roomie, Jill.
A shout out to Jill Jansen because I'm telling you, there
was no better person on the planet to get put in this
situation with than her. She was so great.
But we're sitting there in the Walmart parking lot looking at
each other like, what are we going to do?
So we try the charging station one more time and it works like
(03:56):
what is going on? So by this point it is late.
It is late, and the car is telling me that I'm going to
have to stop three more times tocharge in order to make it home,
which you guys is not normal if you don't drive an electric car.
I'm telling you that that is notnormal.
Those of you who drive electric cars, you should be nodding with
me being like, yeah, that's weird.
(04:17):
So we make the decision to get ahotel because it's late, we
don't want to get stranded in the middle of nowhere and we
just wanted to play it safe. We played Skippo, we may have
had a cocktail because I'm sorryif you go through that, you're
totally justified in getting a cocktail.
And we got some sleep and a great breakfast the next
morning. So, I mean, counting our
(04:39):
blessings here. Now, after breakfast, we load up
the car and we're like, OK, we're going to do this.
It was a beautiful day. We're going to make this work.
And I kid you not, as I'm pulling the car out of the
parking lot of that hotel, I knew immediately that the car
was fine because I know that car, I've been driving it for a
few months. We've kind of, you know,
(05:01):
developed a bit of a relationship here.
And yeah, I looked at Jill and Iwas like, I'm pretty sure that
the car reset itself or something.
And sure enough, it was fine. It was fine.
On the way home. I took it to the dealership the
next day. They kept it for a few days and
gave me a loaner. Fortunately, I had all the
pictures of all the error codes and all the messages that it was
giving me. And so they believed me.
(05:23):
They didn't think I was nuts or crazy, but they ended up, you
know, resetting it, doing all the things, and car is fine now.
Yeah. Anyway, it took us 24 hours, so
I dropped Jill off first. I got home at 4:30 PM on Sunday
afternoon, over 24 hours after we had departed from Chicago.
(05:44):
So Needless to say, when I pulled in the garage and my
husband came out to give me a hug, I was a mess and I cried a
lot. Whatever.
I have a point to this, I promise.
Because to me, the entire experience is kind of like a
metaphor for my teaching life over the past year.
Because here is the truth. You can have everything working
(06:05):
on the outside, a full studio, your dream schedule system
someplace, and still maybe feel like something's not quite
right. Because burnout, that dreaded
word, doesn't always show up like a big bursting fire.
Sometimes it's those weird little error messages where
you're like this isn't right what is going on?
(06:27):
And the more you try to push through and the more it doesn't
work, eventually just kind of shuts down and you realize you
need a reset. So on to my point.
This past year I had finally built what I thought was it with
my studio. The dream setup.
I had 7 full group classes. I had a handful of private
(06:48):
students I loved and adored, allwith 45 minute lessons because I
love me a 45 minute private lesson.
I had a waiting list that was just thick and juicy and
wonderful and financially I had more than hit my goals.
So yay, Jackie, right? Looks like success.
Sounds like success. Smells like success.
(07:09):
But inside something was just off.
I was a lesson planning constantly.
I was switching gears all day from my group prep, then my
private prep, multi level juggling.
I was researching, I was tweaking, I was staying up late.
I was also running this podcast,I was meeting with teachers.
I'm creating resources, managingall the behind the scenes
(07:31):
projects. So yes, I know whose fault is
that. It's my fault.
I get it, I get it, I get it. But at some point it started to
feel like I really wasn't teaching anymore when it came to
my studio. I was managing, I was directing,
and I was leading, but I wasn't really connecting.
And, you know, I will say that my students really held through.
(07:51):
I don't think they even noticed that I was going through
whatever I was going through because they were playing
beautifully. They were doing the work, the
recitals were great, everybody'shappy, parents are happy,
everything's good. But I knew something was off and
it took me a while to figure outwhat it was.
And I've realized that I I wasn't nurturing, I wasn't
really doing the teaching that Ihave learned to love and do.
(08:15):
I would I didn't have the ability to track each student's
growth, not just their performances, but who they were
as musicians day-to-day. I can't even explain it now, but
let's just say that I wasn't being fulfilled as a teacher.
And I do want to be clear about something.
I am not anti group. I fully support group lessons.
(08:36):
I love group lessons. I believe in Group teaching.
I've seen it work beautifully. I know so many teachers who
thrive in that format and I again, fully support it.
But this year, it just was not the right fit for me.
I wasn't showing up the way thatI wanted to show up.
And when that started to happen consistently more than not, I
(08:57):
knew it was time to make a change.
So I decided for this next year going forward, I'm going to make
some tough but very necessary decisions.
So I raised my rates, which wasn't tough that needed to be
done, but I raised my rates. I added more flex weeks to give
myself more breathing room, which again, not tough.
Knew I needed that one. But was what was tough is I
(09:18):
broke all my group lessons up into buddy lessons.
So instead of groups of four, I'm now going to have groups of
two. And I stopped accepting new
students. I totally did away with my
waiting list. All the new students I have been
turning away and handing over toother teachers and you guys,
that has been the hardest thing.I have worked so hard on my SEO
(09:43):
on my website. Inquiries have been flowing.
I see potential in every messagethat lands in my inbox.
And I want to say yes to everyone, but I had to remind
myself that I am not the only teacher in the world.
These students don't need me perSE.
They need a great teacher that'sgoing to fit them.
And I am surrounded by them. I have amazing teachers all
(10:09):
around me that are happy to takestudents, and I really had to
get honest about my capacity. I think that when you're
planning your studio, it's so easy to default to how do I fill
every possible hour, every nook and cranny?
And questions can trick us into thinking that more equals
(10:30):
better. So let me offer a better set of
questions. How many students can I serve
well before I lose my joy of teaching?
What formats actually energize me instead of draining me?
Maybe groups energize you and you need those.
Maybe it's just probably lessons.
Maybe you're like me and buddy lessons are the sweet thing.
(10:52):
Am I designing a studio that works on paper but not in my
real life? And most importantly, what's my
version of enough? It is not a badge of honor to be
burned out all the time. So I'm going to walk you through
a quick little we'll call it a framework.
Ask yourself, what's your monthly financial need with
(11:14):
margin for profit first? You guys, if you missed my
episode on profit first, I can reference it in the show notes.
So let's say that you just want 3000 a month.
That is going to include what you're going to pay yourself,
what you set aside for taxes, what you're going to reinvest
into your studio, and what you save later on for your bonus
profit. Another question, how many hours
(11:36):
do you want to teach each week, realistically?
So let's say you want 20 hours aweek.
It's 80 hours a month. OK, now divide your goal by your
time. So 3 grand divided by 80 hours,
that's $37, $0.50 an hour. So are your current rates giving
you that return? If you, if not, I mean,
obviously you can raise your rates.
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You can shift your formats to buddy lessons or groups to up
that number. You can cut your admin time by
putting better systems in place,which you guys know, I love my
systems. So it's not always about
teaching more. It's really about teaching
smarter. And most importantly, with
margin, because I want to be totally real.
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Being overwhelmed is not impressive.
It is not a bragging right. Wearing yourself thin without
breaks is not a badge of honor. It is a recipe for burnout.
Even when everything looks fine,it's not fine.
Success is not all about fillingyour calendar.
It's building a studio that supports your real life, not one
that's going to consume it. Now, if you are in the season of
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reevaluating like I was, I do want to point you to two things.
If you're reworking your studio structure, I have my policy
workbook. It's not just a template.
There is a template, but it's not just a template.
It's going to walk you through what a studio policy really is
and is not. There is a comparison chart to
help you decide what fits. Again, there is a policy
template, there is my free calendar template, and there are
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waivers in there as well. So that's on sale right now at
Scrappy pianoteacher.com. Another thing that might help
you is the August Scrappy session, which is on August 15th
of 2025. It's at 11:30 AM Eastern Time.
And what we're going to be doingis we're going to be working on
standard operating procedures. So, SO.
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PS we're going to do them in Google Docs, but also templates
in my music staff because most of the people that I work with
tend to work with my music staff.
I'm pretty sure that my music staff is the only software that
has templates in it. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I
don't think the other ones have that.
So if you want to try my music staff, if you don't have it, I
do have a 60 day free trial link.
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Normally they only give a 30 dayfree trial link.
So if you're wanting to try thatout, I have a code.
It's mymusicstaff.com/scrappy Piano teacher.
Again, it'll give you 60 days for free.
So you're welcome to have that up and running before you come
to the Scrappy session, but you don't have to because we're
going to be doing it in Google Docs as well.
So this will have admin systems to help you coast through your
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burnout season instead of collapsing during it.
So it's going to set you up for the whole year.
OK, so back to what I'm talking about though.
How many students do you really need?
How many students do you need? How many students do you need to
consider yourself to have a successful studio?
Do you want to know the number that I heard the most at the
NCKP? Because I asked this question a
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lot to a lot of teachers and 25 seem to be the magic number.
Now, is that your magic number? Well, only you can answer that,
but I hope so. This episode can give you a few
ways to go honest with yourself.Like I had to get honest with
myself. It's not just about numbers, you
guys. Let's not compare.
I have 80 students and I work five days a week, six days a
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week, seven days a week, and I have no breaks.
I'm so happy. No, you're not.
Don't give me that. If you want margin, that doesn't
make you lazy, OK? That doesn't make you an
unsuccessful teacher, all right?The success is what you define
it to be. You're not wrong for saying no
to more. You're allowed to find joy
again, even if it means making changes that no one else sees
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coming. So I hope that gives you guys
some encouragement. As far as how many numbers of
students verse how much to make,it's so hard.
It's not hard sometimes to really figure out that number
because we want to take all the students.
Like give me a yeah, I'll teach your student.
I'll teach you. No, no, no, I'll take you.
I'll take you. No, no, you don't need them.
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You don't need them all. So with that, I would like to
know what your magic number is. What is your magic number?
Do you know it? Have you found something that
works beautifully for you and you've stuck with it over the
years? I want to know.
So with that, I hope you guys have a great week.
I'll talk to you later and keep teaching.
Keep and keep doing all the things and I'll talk to you guys
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soon. Bye.
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