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 Mr. Ahrens teaches band at Bear River High School in Grass Valley, CA. Find him online: Twitter
 @MrAhrens
  www.davidahrens.us & Sound Education are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. |
Summer Professional Development Projects Each Summer I try to, as a professional development project, take on a secondary instrument and improve my abilities on it. (My primary instrument is the horn). Back in college, I took the basic pedagogy courses for brass, woodwind, string, and percussion instruments. I learned to play each instrument . . . → Read More: Ever-Improving Chops on Secondary Instruments It’s hard for me to believe, but I will begin my 12th year teaching high school band in one week. During that time, I’ve been at two schools. The first for five years and the second for seven now. At the time that I left my first band, I had just begun to . . . → Read More: A Band That Plays Together, Plays Together Yesterday was the first meeting of my band’s Student Leadership Team (SLT). Just a short time ago, I announced to my students at Summer Band that I wanted to meet with all Juniors and Seniors prior to our camp (which begins next Monday). A few days ago (while on vacation in Utah) I sent out both . . . → Read More: Student Leadership Team Music Education Professional Learning Network Opens to Public Grove City, PA – July18, 2010 — The Music Education Professional Learning Network (MPLN) opens to the public, at12:00 pm EDT, on July 19, 2010. The MPLN is a new Website specifically developed for music educators, pre-service music teachers, and teaching musicians of any kind. As its base framework, it . . . → Read More: Press Release: Music Education Professional Learning Network Opens to Public
There are many things in the Web 2.0 world that are simply “cool”. The geek in me is attracted to websites that let me paint the screen like Jackson Pollock, or calculate my daily caloric intake, or send little messages out to the cyber world about what I’m doing at any given moment. But . . . → Read More: Twitter has just busted open for me |
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"I shall seize Fate by the throat; it shall certainly not bend and crush me completely." - Ludwig van Beethoven, 1801 |
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