Author: Michelle Tuesday

October and November are a blur. MTMS opened on 9/26/2010 and skyrocketed to well over 100 students in two months. Our Holiday Recitals are already upon us, and compared to our 1-hour Spring Recital and our 1.5-hour Summer Recital, our Holiday Recital will consume 6 hours crossing two days. Once again, we are enormously grateful to our host, Potbelly Sandwich Works at Stoneridge Plaza, and we encourage you to buy lots of steamy soup and tasty milkshakes for you and your hardworking performers.

Personally, the business has consumed my time. My Potbelly performance schedule has dropped from six days per week to five days, and I passed up a great opportunity to perform again for Sunny 95’s Girls Night Out event, which was so much fun this summer. And I haven’t added a single new Christmas song to my holiday repertoire this year, nor written a new original song in over a year. And clearly, blogging has taken second place to hiring teachers ,scheduling students, and planning events like the Mifflin Township Fire Department Open House, the Gahanna Holiday Lights! Festival, and our 2010 Holiday Recitals. Make no mistake: Starting a small business takes up all of your time. Here are a couple of tips that I have found help make a business start-up successful: Continue reading “Fall 2010”

When I mention mixed tapes, any readers over thirty know what I’m talking about. Those of you 29 and younger, besides being chronologically blessed, are wondering what the heck a mixed tape is. For those, like me, less chronologically blessed, allow me to take you on a journey down memory lane.

My father had has a reel-to-reel in his stereo system dating back to the 70’s. Believe it or not, the thing still works. Back before dual tape decks, which were before CD players, which were before MP3 players, which were before iTunes, a reel-to-reel was the only way to make your own mix of music. Continue reading “Mixed Tapes”

Education experts agree that students absorb information better when they receive it in different ways. For example, students who hear information presented by a teacher in a classroom after reading it in a book are more likely to retain the information than students who only read the information in a book. Students who see pictures or demonstrations remember then information better than those who only hear it in a lecture. And students who actively “do”, such as practicing a musical instrument, are more likely to retain what they’ve learned about playing the instrument than students who simply watch a teacher or someone else doing it. Continue reading “Computer Lab: How Technology Reinforces Learning”