Uplevel U: Music For Current and Future School and Studio Music Teachers

Guess what? We released "Teaching Students to Integrate Singing and Expression" this week! It's for choral and musical theater students... check it out!

We will be releasing a new free (for a limited time) resource soon too (maybe in the next few days). This podcast discusses the topic for the resource which is audiences and their impact on student performers. Let's examine what is happening and how this new ...

We just wanted to clarify on what is getting released the next few months, as there was a little change of plans. The big K-8 curriculum project is getting expanded, so it will be taking longer than expected (all good things for you).

In the meantime, we also promised a singing and expression course, which will be released by the end of August! THAT was also promised a few months ago, so that one is coming to the Uplevel U: Mu...

The new school year is about to begin, or maybe already has for you! Where we are from, the school year will be starting in just under a month, but either way, thoughts about kicking off a fresh, new school year are afoot.

How are you going to have an amazing school year, filled with student progress, inspirational moments and skillful performances? Have you decided how you'll reach those goals? Let's discuss in this po...

Many of our music teachers out there are general music teachers. It's time that they get more assistance from Uplevel U: Music. In this quick little check-in episode, Kay discusses a little bit about her time teaching K-8 general music and how little assistance she had to get things started- including no curriculum. It happens, but it shouldn't happen to any teacher. Let's discuss!

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What is Critical Listening? Critical listening skills are the skills students (and people) should be using to actively listen to a piece of music and pick it apart into components. In this episode, we begin to dig into what it means to critically listen to something, and how you, as the music teacher, is responsible for helping guide students into that ability.

Using Uplevel U: Music's newly released "Critical Listeni...

First, big apologies for the break. There were definitely some extenuating circumstances. The last few weeks have taught me some serious life lessons, and I want to share that with you in this episode, from the point of view of the busy teacher.

This content really wasn't what I had in mind, obviously, as you will understand, but the message and the three life lessons I'll be speaking about I hope will inspire you to d...

Today's episode focuses a little bit on the dire circumstance of vocal health in today's students. Like many other health issues, it's easy to say that children are a little immortal, or that "it won't happen to them" or that it is likely to only happen to the singers that tour, rehearse and practice for hours a day.

But that isn't true.

Isn't that what happens during the last few weeks of the music...

Special Announcement! ⁠How to Teach Your Students to Use Fakebooks and Lead Sheets has been released as another one of our Free or Low-Cost Resources.

Today I take you through what it's all about, why it is a helpful resource for teachers to have and what possibilities it opens up for students to create.

Now that this resource has been released, the focus is now set on our next course which will focus on vocal tone developme...

Special Announcement! Character Development and Stage Presence for the Dramatic Arts has been released! This episode discusses some of the details of the course. As a special thank you for listening to this podcast, use the coupon code, StealTheShow10 to get $10 off!

So what's next for Uplevel U: Music? What topics are going to be covered in future episodes? Listen and see and have a chance to voice your opinion of ...

We've gotten a lot done in the last month!

First, introducing our first free resource "The Metronome Game", where you can now gamify metronome skills to help students transition to using metronomes consistently, correctly and without frustration.

Now we are working to get our next course up and running. "Character Development and Stage Presence" is set to be released around the end of march. In this podcast ep...

Big news coming! We are about ready to release our first course of 2025! It's called "My Orchestra Doesn't Squeak: Perfect Technique by Middle School"

It's exactly what you're hoping it is. The course includes the teaching sequence and objectives for the first 7+ orchestra group, troubleshooting, tried-and-true instructional delivery, plenty of photo and video footage to see the correct way to do everythin...

Happy New Year! Today it seemed like a good idea to take a break from professional development and talk about other needs for teachers- health.

How are your New Year's resolutions going? Are some related to mental health at all? Last episode was about physical health and I was going to have a section on mental health and realized I should just include it in another episode, so here we are!

The topics we discus in this episode are ide...

Happy New Year! Today it seemed like a good idea to take a break from professional development and talk about other needs for teachers- health.

Many people make New Year's resolutions right now that are health-related, so let's talk about some easy ways to help accomplish some of those most popular resolutions.

The first area was physical health, and after discussing nutrition, physical activity, health care and meal prepping, Kay...

We just released "Improvisation in the Performing Arts!" Check it out by clicking the link!

We also discuss some course ideas for next year, especially some that help drama/theater, dance and orchestra teachers. If you are a drama/theater or a dance year, I'd love to hear from you if you have any suggestions. The episode speaks about where we are starting, but I'd love to know about other topics that would help for later on.

Be ...

This episode is just a quick update about our improvisation course, and about what 2025 is going to be looking like!

Haven't bookmarked our ⁠Live, Interactive Professional Development Catalog by Uplevel U: Music⁠ yet? Here it is! Bookmark this link because it'll be updated regularly with new products- downloads would be outdated.

Visit our page and check out our course offerings at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.musicroombuffalo.com/uplevel-u-music...

The argument to be had in this episode is that more frequent improvisation opportunities leads to more comfort and stronger audition skills in students, which in turn leads to students performing at a higher level when given different opportunities. We examine theater, dance, and instrumental student examples and how this cause and effect is extremely likely, but only if students are given these types of chances.

So about that fr...

After the exciting release of "Growth Mindset for Music Teachers", Kay begins by talking about how we are already looking at the possibility for some bonus material being added. There's just so much to know, and a new book is prompting her to do a little research with her students to bring you even more goodness to our latest course.

Next, there's a free resource coming to Uplevel U: Music- one that will help you manage your profe...

Uplevel U: Music has finally released the "Growth Mindset for Music Teachers" course!

In this episode, Uplevel U: Music founder and course developer, Kay Janiszewski, talks about some of the final pieces of information of the course, including the number of course hours, and about the free preview course that is also available. She also makes a prediction about how impactful this course's material will be once many teachers have t...

After lots of time in research and development, the newest Uplevel U: Music course, "Growth Mindset For Music Teachers" is almost ready to be released! Look out for it next week!

In this episode, Uplevel U: Music founder and course developer, Kay Janiszewski, discusses what the course is all about, how it is applicable to every teacher and why growth mindset in our teachers and students could change the world. Growth mindset is ve...