This week we tackle some stocking-stuffer sized topics regarding the end of the semester. Midwest recap is coming next week, followed by our interviews.

Olin, Veronica and John are headed to Chicago today for the Midwest Band and Orchestra clinic. On this episode we discss the value of local and national professional organizations and their annual conferences.

This is the first installment as we try to work through the new National Core Arts Standards and unpack them. Also on the table is how we incorporate the standards into our teaching and how we can do better.

We address the challenges we're facing and what we're doing to improve as teachers over this year and into next semester. The followup of how exactly we're doing with that will be coming in a blogpost on the website. aMusEdCast.org