Robby's Ellicott Mills Middle School colleague, Ben Denne, joins the show to talk about designing a sequential instrumental music curriculum, and how they track student progress in the FileMaker app. Other topics include:

Workflows for producing virtual band/orchestra videos
The importance of developing audiation in student musicians
The strengths of binary performance rubrics
Art vs. Craft
Understanding relational databases
Data-driven music teaching (the good kind)
Lots more music teaching philosophy

Show Notes:

App of the Week:

Robby - Discord

Ben - IDAGIO

Album of the Week:

Robby - Sarah Jarosz | World on the Ground

Ben - Marc Ribot | Y Los Cubanos Postizos

Where to Find Us:

Robby - Twitter | Blog

Ben - EMMS Music | HoCoYo

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Screenshots of Our FileMaker Database: Our table of assignment records (Right) and the Layout we use to enter performance records (Left)

Image of Performance Packets:

#10 - Designing Curriculum and Assessing Students with FileMaker, with Ben Denne