Studio Structure & ocation

Think Outside The Home: Teaching Options And Opportunities Teaching In Students' Homes
Editor's Note: This is the sixth installment in a series of columns exploring various teaching options.

Think Outside The Home: Teaching Options And Opportunities Teaching In Students' Homes
Editor's Note: This is the sixth installment in a series of columns exploring various teaching options.

Think Outside The Home: Teaching Options And Opportunities Teaching At A Non-Profit Organization
Editor's Note: This is the fifth installment in a series of columns exploring various teaching options.

Think Outside The Home: Teaching Options And Opportunities Teaching At A For-Profit Organization
Editor's Note: This is the fourth installment in a series of columns exploring various teaching options.

Think Outside The Home: Teaching Options And Opportunities Part 2: Online…And Onward
Editor's Note: This is the third installment of a series of columns exploring various teaching options.

Think Outside The Home: Teaching Options And Opportunities Part 2: Online…And Onward
Editor's Note: This is the third installment of a series of columns exploring various teaching options.

Think Outside The Home: Teaching Options And Opportunities Online ... And Onward
A student moves out of state or to a rural area.

Think Outside The Home: Teaching Options And Opportunities Forks In The Road
Editor's Note: This is the eighth and final installment in a series of columns exploring various teaching options.

Think Outside The Home: Teaching Options And Opportunities "The Middle Man"
Editor's Note: This is the seventh installment in a series of columns exploring various teaching options.

Think Outside The Home: Teaching Opportunities And Options Part 1: Independent Contractor or Employee
A home studio is not for everyone. Home ownership may not be feasible or funds may not be available for purchasing a quality instrument. I can just hear my banker friends saying "But that's why the banks are here! We can help." However, the choice to add debt may not be attractive either, especially for young professionals with student loans. Home studios/ownership may not be compatible with contemporary lifestyles that include urban apartment living, delayed marriage or a desire for mobility.

Business Structure Options for Music Teachers
Are you trying to decide on the best business structure for your teaching? OR are you looking for ways to upgrade or change your current teaching situation? Besides the two traditional platforms (independent studio and university faculty) there are other attractive choices available.

Stepping Stones for Emerging Careers: A Comparison of Select Studio Models
Professional musicians’ careers are becoming increasingly multidisciplinary, and even within the field of music teaching, the possibilities for building a career may come in a variety of formats.

Starting a Music School
Many independent music teachers think about expanding their studios and starting a music school when their student load exceeds their available teaching hours. To start a music school that follows best business practices is not as simple as renting a commercial space, hiring a couple of teachers and printing new business cards. Careful preparation and planning are necessary to not only be financially successful, but to also be professionally responsible.

Having It All Without Doing It All
I had just finished teaching a series of pedagogy classes, covering many business aspects of running a studio (including studio policies, marketing, recordkeeping, tax returns), when one of my students, with a deer-in-the-headlights look, asked, "Can I just keep working for you (the Community Arts School) when I graduate? I'll never be able to do all this! I just want to teach."

A New Calendar, A New Paradigm
It is 20 degrees and snow is still on the ground here in the Midwest; what better time to think summer, or better yet, re-think summer. The superintendent of my state's largest school district, Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS), met last November with hundreds of out-of-school-time providers (such as YMCA, Boys and Girls Club, afterschool enrichment programs, church groups) and challenged them to re-think summer as "out-of-school-time" programming. IPS is championing a new "balanced" calendar that reduces the current summer break from 10 weeks to five weeks, adds three-week breaks in the fall and spring, and increases winter break to four weeks. A primary reason for this proposal is to counter the documented "summer learning loss" of children who are away from a structured school routine for two to three months. I can almost hear music teachers cheering! Our profession has long advocated that taking the summer off from music study results in skill and learning loss and the need to catch up in the fall.

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