Your Passion, Their Success! Winter Workshop 2025

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January 8-11
watch pre-recorded sessions on your own time and join live workshops on January 11th!

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For Concert Band Teachers,  Orchestra Teachers, and Homeschool Parents

FREE

Learn for free via step-by-step pre-recorded professional development (PD) sessions at your own pace and on your own time and live workshops on January 11th. Registrants will receive a certificate for each session completed.

WIN PRIZES

Receive one entry to win $1,000 toward a Jupiter instrument, two Heckman Batons (worth $50-$60 each), two Amazon gift cards ($50 each), or one of four $25 JPM Music Publications gift cards for each pre-recorded you complete and/or live session you attend.

See full giveaway rules here.

PERSONALIZED

Optional: opt-in during registration to receive free written feedback when you complete sessions between January 8-January 11th from our Roundtable Representatives, then you can rewatch the recorded materials for free, forever.

VIRTUAL SWAG BAG

Everyone who participates will receive one $25 gift card to GIA Publications and a free shipping coupon code from JW Pepper.

Live forums you can attend for free

  • Blend and Balance

  • Building a Collaborative Classroom Culture

  • Effective Rehearsal Techniques for Bands and Orchestras

  • A Look at the Future of Music Education (keynote)

Pre-recorded sessions you can watch for free

  • Maximizing Student Engagement (K12 only)

  • Blend and Balance (K12 only)

  • Improving String Instrument Skills (K12 only)

  • DIY Instrument Repair Hacks (K12 only)

  • Building a Collaborative Classroom Culture (K12 only)

  • Effective Rehearsal Techniques for Bands and Orchestras (K12 only)

  • Advocating for Music Programs (K12 only)

  • Recruitment and Retention (K12 only)

  • Diverse Music and Composers (K12 only)

  • Practical Student Assessment Techniques

  • How to Teach Students to Play in Tune

  • Developing Strong Sight-Reading Skills in Instrumental Students

Get Started in 3 Easy Steps!

How to Create an Account

1.

REGISTER FOR THE WORKSHOP. IT ONLY TAKES 2 MINUTE

How to Create an Account

2.

RECEIVE INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO ACCESS THE WORKSHOP LEADING UP TO JANUARY 8TH

How to Create an Account

3.

SUPERCHARGE YOUR TEACHING WITH ACCESS TO PERSONALIZED PD FROM JANUARY 8-11

Meet our Roundtable

Shannon Waldo

Shannon Waldo
Chair

K-12 General Music
Billings R-IV School District
Billings, MO

Kim Lundgren

Kim Lundgren
Representative

Retired 5th Grade Band/Strings Teacher
Poway Unified School District
San Diego, CA

Valerie Coolidge

Valerie Coolidge
Representative

Jr/Sr High Music Director
Oroville School District
Oroville, WA

Melinda Pickering

Melinda Pickering
Representative

Ware Elementary
Geary County USD 475
Fort Riley, KS