3:00pm – Ignorance Is Not Bliss: Legal Issues for the IMT Led by Lee Galloway, Beth Gigante Klingenstein, and Scott McBride Smith. Health insurance - policies are available for self-employed people through MTNA, MENC, and other organizations. Add an extra policy to your homeowner’s or renter’s insurance policy to protect your studio materials and your piano against theft, flood, [...]

1:30pm – Financial Success: Taking Control of the Present and the Future Led by Lee Galloway, Beth Gigante Klingenstein, and Scott McBride Smith. Why are independent music teachers (IMT) so underpaid?  Beth had quite a list of contributing reasons!   Here’s a few: Most IMTs are women. We do not raise rates often or by enough.

11:30am – Finding & Keeping Students Led by Lee Galloway, Beth Gigante Klingenstein, and Scott McBride Smith. This session involved a lot of discussion as a group.  Attendees raised their hands to share ideas for finding and keeping students.  Here’s a few ideas that I jotted down: On your registration form, ask how the student heard [...]

10:30am – The Creative Curriculum Led by Lee Galloway, Beth Gigante Klingenstein, and Scott McBride Smith. Make a plan for yourself, to focus on (1) continual growth, (2) quality, and (3) innovation.  As Peter Drucker once said, “We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most [...]