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The Beth and Kelly Show: Music Teaching (and Life) Beth Fortune and Kelly Clingan
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Dubbed “the Beth and Kelly Show” by colleagues, we’re teaching soulmates who love to talk shop and laugh along the way. We don’t have all the answers, but we do have a ton of experience and are willing to ask questions and make mistakes. Subversive in approach, we explore solutions and highlight allies as we continue to move our practice forward.
Theme music by Sean MacCarthy-Grant
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The Beth and Kelly Show Episode Sixteen: Nicole Melrose
How do we best serve students who have endured trauma and students with special needs? Music educators can always always benefit from support and ideas for building a more welcoming, safe environment for all in our learning spaces. Listen to this uplifting, HOPEFUL conversation we had with Nicole Melrose of StringRise — an org built around helping music educators build thriving and equitable music learning communities. As we near the first day of school — and we ALL need a pep talk right about now — this episode is a must-listen!
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The Beth and Kelly Show Episode Fifteen: Annie Booth
This episode is entitled “Tale As Old As Time.” Featuring musician/ composer Annie Booth of Brava Jazz Publishing, a music publishing company that publishes only jazz music by femme composers — for jazz bands of all playing levels, we engage in an AMAZING amazing convo — all anchored in the “Tale As Old As Time” — that being the ridiculousness regarding the speed bumps, roadblocks, traps, and flat out brick walls that femme contributors continue to encounter in the jazz community (and other music communities) STILL. In 2023. Please listen, and consider what YOU can do to take action toward change!
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The Beth and Kelly Show Episode Fourteen: Sarah Hart
The topics we discuss with WA music educator Sarah Hart have to do with shining a light on how the mental health of teachers plays directly into the ways that we can then turn around and serve our students and school community. Unfortunately, the systems we exist within are designed to both keep us perpetually “small” and we are made to believe we need give and give and give and just suck it up. It is an emotional topic and we need to start unpacking it. Thanks Sarah for helping us touch on the tip of the iceberg.
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The Beth and Kelly Show Episode Thirteen: Laurie de Koch
Anyone want to brush up on their nonprofit knowledge? This episode with Laurie DeKoch, Executive Director at Seattle JazzED is not to be missed! It is a shame that music educators are not taught more about nonprofits and nonprofit leadership in college. This type of understanding / work tends to be something that we inevitably find ourselves navigating. And, having an understanding of what boards do, etc. would really help those of us that want to pursue leadership positions in our MEAs or other associations.
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The Beth and Kelly Show Episode Twelve: Felipe Morales-Torres
Broadcasting from the Rochester, NY Hyatt in our “Live From NAfME NE” episode with music educator, pedagogue, and conductor Felipe Morales-Torres from The Bornoff Foundation for the Advancement of String Education! We got into a deeply riveting discussion about repertoire, and programming, and honoring cultures, and navigating/ working to bring authenticity to the music of various cultures that is available to us from educational music publishers. We didn’t want to stop the conversation!
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The Beth and Kelly Show Episode Eleven: Adrian Gordon
We had an amazing convo with Adrian Gordon, an outstanding composer, author, and full-time music educator! We talk about the educational music publishing business and roadblocks he’s experienced — causing him to create his own publishing company https://www.adriangordonmusic.com/compositions. He also shares with us about his new book “Note To Self: A Music Director’s Guide to Transitioning to a New School and Building a Thriving Music Program".
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