Great mentors can be hard to find
Teaching instrumental music is simply different than teaching other subjects. Even if you’re an experienced musician, your children may want to learn an instrument you don’t know how to play. Or maybe you have no musical background at all. Regardless of your situation, we can help you facilitate instrumental music education for your children is not just good, but great.
Traditional professional development opportunities are not designed for homeschool parents or co-ops. What you need is a mentor.
Why not hire a master mentor?
Without personalized mentorship, it can be difficult to:
What you get
MENTORSHIP PREPARATION
Work with our master mentors to design a custom mentorship program specific to your needs, limited only by the number of hours your family or group purchases.
ONE-ON-ONE MENTORSHIP
Receive personalized resource material and real-time feedback while you teach your children based on your custom-designed mentorship program.
GROUP
MENTORSHIP
Receive personalized resource material and mentor-facilitated workshops with real-time feedback based on your custom-designed mentorship program.
GUIDED COLLABORATION
Join a private homeschool parent community to share your most valuable mentorship takeaways, creating ongoing learning opportunities at no additional cost.
TESTIMONIALS
Stephen is undoubtedly the best String Orchestra Teacher and Mentor I have known in my entire orchestra and band teaching career (1966 – 1983) and as K-12 Administrative Supervisor of Music for the Salem-Keizer School District (1983 – 2011).
Learning from Dr. Burrack is great because his passion is enlightening and contagious! He motivated and inspired me going into a new school year, and I can honestly say I have a new understanding of our standards and feel better equipped than ever.
I recognized early on as a public school orchestra teacher that, although I was giving my very best effort, I was not always able to get the results Stephen gave me as his high school orchestra student. I reached out to Stephen for mentorship; I visited his classes to see best practices in action, met with him for tips and insight through score study, and finally had him join several of our rehearsals as a clinician. These experiences equipped me with the tools and expectations that helped me to elevate my teaching effectiveness.
Dr. Fred Burrack has great chops and demeanor in rehearsing bands. He is extremely knowledgeable, engaging, and gets the most out of the ensemble. Dr. Burrack is a fantastic clinician!
The way Stephen explained things always had the right balance of technical information and pure magic. And the results were stunning…we sounded inspired and we WERE inspired. It was the kind of group experience you usually read about in a glossy magazine or a novel, but here we were, living it in real life.
Dr. Burrack’s in-service absolutely provided what we were hoping to address. He gave us a lot to think about and some concrete ideas we can start implementing. Our district’s feedback is all positive. Thank you so much!
The combination of passion and knowledge that Stephen Nelson brings to music education is exceedingly rare. To this day, I find myself passing along knowledge to my students that he imparted to me, and I revisit some of his profound wisdom while working on my own playing.
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