White teachers looking for authentic, sustainable ways to create equitable classrooms for all students, especially BIPOC students, will benefit from this conversation between Miriam and Missy, 2 teachers who have been part of the FAME community for m...

  Social Emotional Learning (SEL) is something on the lips of many educators. For those who aren’t yet familiar with it, Dr. Scott Edgar, author of Music Education and Social Emotional Learning: the Heart of Teaching,

  Music Ed Tech guru, author, and elementary music teacher Amy Burns talks to Missy about Missy’s arch-nemesis, technology. Tune in to hear about ways Amy is using technology to forward instruction in her classroom!

  David Rankine is a dual-endorsed Teacher Trainer with the FAME organization and he comes on the podcast to chat with Missy about how things have been going for him up in Canada during COVID. He also talks about his brand new series, Mr.

  Dr. Loneka Battiste, Assistant Professor of Music Ed at the University of Tennessee, describes the importance of seeing, acknowledging, and connecting with every student in your classroom and the disequilibrium she herself experienced as she came to ...

  Laura Harmon is Associate Music Director of the Philadelphia Girls Choir and an elementary music teacher in Southern New Jersey. She and Missy discuss what life as a choir director is like right now in the Covid era.

  Maria A. Ellis joins Missy to talk about Bach & Beyoncé, her new radio show where she gets to geek out about her love for music and challenge assumptions about a broad spectrum of musical genres, including Classical Music.

Music teachers don’t always know what to do for Black History Month, and there are far too many only doing a lesson in February. Jasmine talks to Missy about the importance of making sure that long before February rolls around,

  FAME Teacher Trainer and Indiana Music Educator Association’s 2021 Outstanding Elementary Educator Award recipient Andy Himelick talks with Missy about how teaching is going for him during the pandemic. They chat about his First Steps and Conversatio...

  FAME Teacher Trainer and Indiana Music Educator Association’s 2021 Outstanding Elementary Educator Award recipient Andy Himelick talks with Missy about how teaching is going for him during the pandemic. They chat about his First Steps and Conversatio...