Teaching Music: From Classrooms to Homes
Stories by NC Music Educators During the COVID-19 Quarantine
Teaching Music: From Classrooms to Homes is a platform for NCMEA members to share brief narratives about the innovative ways you are teaching music online during the COVID-19 pandemic.
These stories can be about everything from creative ways you are using online technology to how music is helping support the social and emotional needs of your students. Student testimonials about missing live music making experiences in school are also important to share.
We will share these stories via social media and also use them in our advocacy work at the North Carolina General Assembly this spring.
The consequences of this pandemic will have far reaching outcomes for the economy, and consequently, will require difficult decisions from those who are composing budgets in years to come.
Here are some of the submissions:
- Social Distancing Won’t Dampen Students’ Love of Music – An Online Bulletin Board
Johnathan Hamiel
R.J. Reynolds High School
Forsyth County - Music In Our Schools – A Student Video
Kimberly Zimmerman
Swansboro Middle School
Onslow County - Music During Quarantine – A Student Essay
Eugene Cottrell
Pine Crest High School
Moore County - Singing Songs on Google Voice!
Amber Houk
Glenwood Elementary School
McDowell County - Music Teacher Keeps Students Creating
Pamela Day
Richlands Elementary School
Onslow County - Using Flipgrid to Create Musical Community – A Student Video
Angela Caswell
Pilot Mountain Elementary School
Surry County - Music Making at Pleasant Grove and E.M. Yoder Elementary
Kelly Poquette
Pleasant Grove and E.M. Yoder Elementary Schools
Alamance County - Cougars Trapped in the Den – Student Podcast & Testimonials
Janice Swoope
Reid Ross Classical School
Cumberland County - You Can Cage the Singer, But Not the Song – Student Video
Kami Keesor
Margaret B. Pollard Middle School
Chatham County - Old Dog Learns New Tricks to Reach Out to Her Music Students
Laura Sullivan
Rosman Elementary and TC Henderson School of Science and Technology
Transylvania County - Brightening the Day with Music
Melanie Cole
Fairview Heights Elementary School
Richmond County - Bridging the Gap and Keeping the Connection
Marianne Breneman
Private Studio of Marianne Breneman
Wake County - From A Coaching Perspective
Lauren Lutz
L.J. Bell Elementary School
Richmond County - Similar But Different: Students and Parents Miss Being Part of A Performing Ensemble
Shawn Wellman
I.C. Imagine School
Buncombe County - Music Education is Important In the Schools
Kacey Matheson
L.J. Bell Elementary School
Richmond County