Why I love Simply Music

This year I have been teaching Simply Music for 7 years. This Australian piano method has changed the way I teach, learn, play and relate to people. I have never been happier with my experience with Simply Music.

This past week Simply Music unveiled their new teacher status qualifications and they require a little more from all teachers. There is also new status qualifications so that I can advance. I've been asking Simply Music about this for about 2 years and they have been working on revamping them for at least that long.

When I started teaching there was about 1/2 the teachers that there are now. In Michigan I was one of 2 teachers at the time and now it has grown to 15 or more teachers and still growing!

While growth is amazing it can create (as I've learned in my own studio) a need to develop new systems to handle the growth in a breakthrough way. I believe these new qualifications for SM teachers will help to manage the growth for SM. Quality teachers are so important for the method.

I love Simply Music for the following reasons..

- the method isn't just about playing great sounding songs it's about helping students move toward creating breakthroughs for themselves. Students with special needs.. learning to play, adult students learning to play for the first time... students getting excited about learning piano!

-the method changes teachers and students alike. I've grown so much personally as much as I have in learning to teach.

-the method creates opportunities. 3 teachers at our studio trained with SM and started teaching. they are excellent teachers and were given the opportunity.

- the method creates families growing together.. families come together to lessons and learn together, SM has a family of teachers, my family is growing together because of the biz opportunity.

-the method is about growth
I get the chance to grow in my musicality.. create compositions, create and learn blues, jazz. Students get the chance to grow in the same ways and also develop their intergrity.

This time is a turning point for SM as it propels into the next years of moving forward into new countries, new homes, new families and new teachers!