Your Passion, Their Success! Self-Paced Professional Development

For Concert Band and Orchestra Teachers

PERSONALIZED

Step-by-step professional development (PD) year-round. Free feedback during our summer symposium.

FREE

You can access the recorded materials for free, forever.

WIN PRIZES

Complete sessions during our Summer Symposium dates for a chance to win prizes totaling $1,500+! 2023 info coming soon.

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Topics you can learn about for free

  • Effective Use of Practicing Musician

  • Maximizing Student Engagement

  • Diverse Music and Composers

  • DIY Instrument Repair Hacks

Practicing Musician

Follow our step-by-step instructions to get started today!

Symposium Speakers

Jake Douglass
CEO/Founder
Practicing Musician

Stephen Nelson

Stephen Nelson
K-12 Orchestra Director with fifty 1st place competition wins, three Vienna Youth and Music Festival wins, and one Grammy award

Randall Bearden
M.M.E.
K-12 band and choir director
Instrument Repair Tech Certified

Quincy Hilliard, Ph.D
Composer in Residence
Heymann Endowed Professor of Music
University of Louisiana – Lafayette

Meet our Roundtable

Shannon Waldo

Shannon Waldo

Chair

K-12 Music Teacher and
Director of Bands,
Billings R-IV
School District.

Billings, Missouri

Kim Lundgren

Representative

Retired 5th grade Band
and String teacher
Poway Unified
School District.

San Diego, California

Practicing Musician

Follow our step-by-step instructions to get started today!

Join our team!

We’re on a mission to help every child, everywhere, be joyfully engaged in music.

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