TEACH SUZUKI

Written by Paula E. Bird, copyright 2014 Last week I had a particularly difficult lesson with one of my young nine-year-old students. Actu...

Written by Paula E. Bird, copyright 2014 I have noticed that the tenor of my friends' Facebook posts have changed lately as we enter i...

written by Paula E. Bird, copyright 2014 I got a wee bit behind last week, and unfinished tasks pulled at me. I could not seem to catch up...

Written by Paula E. Bird, copyright 2014 When I think about goal setting, I typically think in more traditional terms: linear progression ...

written by Paula E. Bird, copyright 2014 Recently I listened to a few sermon messages about talents: what talents (or gifts) we are give...

written by Paula E. Bird, copyright 2014 One of my favorite university classes is my section of String Techniques classes that includes no...

Written by Paula E. Bird, copyright 2014 "We must recognize that we were born as wonderful human beings with limitless possibilities....

written by Paula E. Bird,  ©2014 How to find more time in a day? Impossible, you say. Everyone is given the same 24 hours each and ever...

Written by Paula E. Bird,  ©2014 What a difference practice makes! I have such a varied group of parental approaches to practice session...

The Hidden Teaching Points: the Road to a Deeper Teaching Relationship Written by Paula E. Bird,  ©2014 I would like to warn my readers ...

Written by Paula E. Bird,  ©2014 Today is the first Monday of 2014. I like to greet my Mondays with thoughts about what I want to accompli...

What is a priority? The Merriam-Webster dictionary instructs us that a priority is the state of being before something else: "something...

I did not have very many good writing topic ideas for today. My brain is fried. I lack creativity and crave more sleep. I need to do laundry...

Written by Paula E. Bird ©2013 When I joined the symphony many years ago, I recall watching a woman enter rehearsal and stride to her ...

My studio began offering fall semester lessons two weeks ago. The first week I thought I had come up with the perfect plan to encourage the...