Chaotic Harmony

In this episode, Crystal, Jon, & Marc talk about what teachers need to really thrive in their workplace. From physical to emotional and everything in between, the need teachers have are wide ranging and vary in different geographic and professional environments. Song of the Week: "Johnny Grim" lesson by Mr. DelGaudio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljXXJ8BO4fk&ab_channel=MrDelGaudio Mr DelGaudio's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQYWaG448hPsGO13simiMsA Our Social Media: @CHClassroom Find Us on Instagram, Twitter or Youtube Marc Keehmer: @mrKeehmer Crystal Pridmore: @FinneyVAPA Jonathan Seligman: @mrSeligman Email: chaoticharmonyclassroom@gmail.com Bryan Pridmore is a financial advisor at Mission Trails Financial. Mission Trails Financial provides awareness, education, and implementation for individuals and businesses looking to navigate their financial pathways. As a Fiduciary, the financial advisor is required to act within the best interest of the client. Please set up an appointment by calling (619) 419-0238 or by visiting https://missiontrailsfinancial.com Crystal Pridmore is a co-host of Chaotic Harmony Classroom. To see more of what she is doing, visit Crystal Pridmore's home page at https://www.crystalpridmore.com Production & Equipment provided by Bryan Pridmore with Pridmoria.com "Capturing Memories Worth Treasuring" https://www.pridmoria.com https://www.facebook.com/pridmoria/

In this episode, Crystal, Jon, & Marc talk about how each of them is handling concerts during this year of distance learning. They also examine patterns of behavior in their personal and professional lives that they want to change. Song of the Week: "The Leaf Man" round by Crystal Pridmore Our Social Media: @CHClassroom Find Us on Instagram, Twitter or Youtube Marc Keehmer: @mrKeehmer Crystal Pridmore: @FinneyVAPA Jonathan Seligman: @mrSeligman Email: chaoticharmonyclassroom@gmail.com Bryan Pridmore is a financial advisor at Mission Trails Financial. Mission Trails Financial provides awareness, education, and implementation for individuals and businesses looking to navigate their financial pathways. As a Fiduciary, the financial advisor is required to act within the best interest of the client. Please set up an appointment by calling (619) 419-0238 or by visiting https://missiontrailsfinancial.com Crystal Pridmore is a co-host of Chaotic Harmony Classroom. To see more of what she is doing, visit Crystal Pridmore's home page at https://www.crystalpridmore.com Production & Equipment provided by Bryan Pridmore with Pridmoria.com "Capturing Memories Worth Treasuring" https://www.pridmoria.com https://www.facebook.com/pridmoria/

In this episode, Marc, Crystal, and Jon talk with Manju Durairaj about a wealth of topics—from cultural responsiveness to appreciation vs. appropriation to using technology in a 21st century music room, to teachers creating content and materials relevant to their classroom. Join us! Our Social Media: @CHClassroom Find Us on Instagram, Twitter or Youtube Manju Durairaj: @manjudurairaj Marc Keehmer: @mrKeehmer Crystal Pridmore: @FinneyVAPA Jonathan Seligman: @mrSeligman Email: chaoticharmonyclassroom@gmail.com Bryan Pridmore is a financial advisor at Mission Trails Financial. Mission Trails Financial provides awareness, education, and implementation for individuals and businesses looking to navigate their financial pathways. As a Fiduciary, the financial advisor is required to act within the best interest of the client. Please set up an appointment by calling (619) 419-0238 or by visiting https://missiontrailsfinancial.com Crystal Pridmore is a co-host of Chaotic Harmony Classroom. To see more of what she is doing, visit Crystal Pridmore's home page at https://www.crystalpridmore.com Production & Equipment provided by Bryan Pridmore with Pridmoria.com "Capturing Memories Worth Treasuring" https://www.pridmoria.com https://www.facebook.com/pridmoria/

In this episode, Marc, Crystal, and Jon share a nugget of wisdom as well as an activity they're experimenting for this trying year. It's different year. A weird one. But all three share insights from a different perspectives to ensure our community that we don't go too far one way. Song of the Week: "This Land is Your Land" Our Social Media: @CHClassroom Find Us on Instagram, Twitter or Youtube Marc Keehmer: @mrKeehmer Zoe Kumagai: @msKumagai Crystal Pridmore: @FinneyVAPA Jonathan Seligman: @mrSeligman Email: chaoticharmonyclassroom@gmail.com Bryan Pridmore is a financial advisor at Mission Trails Financial. Mission Trails Financial provides awareness, education, and implementation for individuals and businesses looking to navigate their financial pathways. As a Fiduciary, the financial advisor is required to act within the best interest of the client. Please set up an appointment by calling (619) 419-0238 or by visiting https://missiontrailsfinancial.com Crystal Pridmore is a co-host of Chaotic Harmony Classroom. To see more of what she is doing, visit Crystal Pridmore's home page at https://www.crystalpridmore.com Production & Equipment provided by Bryan Pridmore with Pridmoria.com "Capturing Memories Worth Treasuring" https://www.pridmoria.com https://www.facebook.com/pridmoria/

In this episode, Crystal, Jon, Zoe & Marc talk to Dr. David Frego about creating a culture of movement in the classroom through Dalcroze Eurhythmics. This episode was recorded in March 2020 before the COVID shutdown. Song of the Week: "The Scat Song" or "The Doo Doot Round" Our Social Media: @CHClassroom Find Us on Instagram, Twitter or Youtube Marc Keehmer: @mrKeehmer Zoe Kumagai: @msKumagai Crystal Pridmore: @FinneyVAPA Jonathan Seligman: @mrSeligman Email: chaoticharmonyclassroom@gmail.com Bryan Pridmore is a financial advisor at Mission Trails Financial. Mission Trails Financial provides awareness, education, and implementation for individuals and businesses looking to navigate their financial pathways. As a Fiduciary, the financial advisor is required to act within the best interest of the client. Please set up an appointment by calling (619) 419-0238 or by visiting https://missiontrailsfinancial.com Crystal Pridmore is a co-host of Chaotic Harmony Classroom. To see more of what she is doing, visit Crystal Pridmore's home page at https://www.crystalpridmore.com Production & Equipment provided by Bryan Pridmore with Pridmoria.com "Capturing Memories Worth Treasuring" https://www.pridmoria.com https://www.facebook.com/pridmoria/

In this episode, Crystal, Jon, & Marc talk about the 2020/2021 school year. We check in with each other on how teaching is going, and how distance learning isn't perfect, and we as teachers need to show ourselves a little bit of grace. Song of the Week: Casillas Elementary Alumni Choir present Switchfoot's "Float" Our Social Media: @CHClassroom Find Us on Instagram, Twitter or Youtube Marc Keehmer: @mrKeehmer Zoe Kumagai: @msKumagai Crystal Pridmore: @FinneyVAPA Jonathan Seligman: @mrSeligman Email: chaoticharmonyclassroom@gmail.com Bryan Pridmore is a financial advisor at Mission Trails Financial. Mission Trails Financial provides awareness, education, and implementation for individuals and businesses looking to navigate their financial pathways. As a Fiduciary, the financial advisor is required to act within the best interest of the client. Please set up an appointment by calling (619) 419-0238 or by visiting https://missiontrailsfinancial.com Crystal Pridmore is a co-host of Chaotic Harmony Classroom. To see more of what she is doing, visit Crystal Pridmore's home page at https://www.crystalpridmore.com Production & Equipment provided by Bryan Pridmore with Pridmoria.com "Capturing Memories Worth Treasuring" https://www.pridmoria.com https://www.facebook.com/pridmoria/

In this episode, we talk with Melissa Salguero, an incredible music educator at P.S.48 Joseph R. Drake Elementary School in the South Bronx. She has built the music program from the ground up and has raised over $200,000 for her music program. Salguero was honored as the Lincoln Center Arts Teacher of the Year in 2013. In 2014, after P.S. 48 suffered a break-in, Salguero was invited to represent the school on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show." She was named the Grammy Music Educator Award Recipient in 2018. We speak with Melissa about bringing respect into the classroom, creating a safe learning environment, and bearing the courage to teach beyond the standards to meet the students where they're at—even (and perhaps especially) when that means addressing hard topics. Melissa Grammy video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_i53TQE-lw We Will Rise Student Composed Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6TX3anBlXk This Land Is Your Land https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cKUxGrH8Fk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0djoLKQ-378 Jane Elliott Documentary “A Class Divided” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mcCLm_LwpE Brooks Gibbs How to Stop a Bully https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oKjW1OIjuw Sir Ken Robinson: Do Schools Kill Creativity? https://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_do_schools_kill_creativity?language=en Spiccato: Deck of Cards Song of the Week: CVESD Music Teachers present Jason Mraz’s “Have it All” for our promoting 6th graders Our Social Media: @CHClassroom Find Us on Instagram, Twitter or Youtube Marc Keehmer: @mrKeehmer Zoe Kumagai: @msKumagai Crystal Pridmore: @FinneyVAPA Jonathan Seligman: @mrSeligman Email: chaoticharmonyclassroom@gmail.com Bryan Pridmore is a financial advisor at Mission Trails Financial. Mission Trails Financial provides awareness, education, and implementation for individuals and businesses looking to navigate their financial pathways. As a Fiduciary, the financial advisor is required to act within the best interest of the client. Please set up an appointment by calling (619) 419-0238 or by visiting https://missiontrailsfinancial.com Crystal Pridmore is a co-host of Chaotic Harmony Classroom. To see more of what she is doing, visit Crystal Pridmore's home page at https://www.crystalpridmore.com Production & Equipment provided by Bryan Pridmore with Pridmoria.com "Capturing Memories Worth Treasuring" https://www.pridmoria.com https://www.facebook.com/pridmoria/

Ondrya Leavitt has been teaching in our district long enough to see music programs come and go along with changes in funding. Her story is one of a teacher who knows how to pivot when things change. Learn from how she takes care of her physical and mental wellbeing while being an excellent teacher. Spiccato: Antique Fan Pull Round of the Week: Here I Sit and Wait for You tags: music education, iron man, marathons, fit teachers, band, flute, boundaries for teachers, ORF Our Social Media: @CHClassroom Find Us on Instagram, Twitter or Youtube Marc Keehmer: @mrKeehmer Zoe Kumagai: @msKumagai Crystal Pridmore: @FinneyVAPA Jonathan Seligman: @mrSeligman Email: chaoticharmonyclassroom@gmail.com Bryan Pridmore is a financial advisor at Mission Trails Financial. Mission Trails Financial provides awareness, education, and implementation for individuals and businesses looking to navigate their financial pathways. As a Fiduciary, the financial advisor is required to act within the best interest of the client. Please set up an appointment by calling (619) 419-0238 or by visiting https://missiontrailsfinancial.com Crystal Pridmore is a co-host of Chaotic Harmony Classroom. To see more of what she is doing, visit Crystal Pridmore's home page at https://www.crystalpridmore.com Production & Equipment provided by Bryan Pridmore with Pridmoria.com "Capturing Memories Worth Treasuring" https://www.pridmoria.com https://www.facebook.com/pridmoria/

In this episode Christa Crawford Valency, music teacher at Discovery Charter School, joined us. We talked about how Christa’s teaching career has interwoven with Zoe & Marc, how having a strong community really is so important and how as a teacher we need to remind ourselves and our students that “we can do hard things.” Spiccato: Bag of Colored Pencils Quarantine Song of the Week: Count On Me Our Social Media: @CHClassroom Find Us on Instagram, Twitter or Youtube Marc Keehmer: @mrKeehmer Zoe Kumagai: @msKumagai Crystal Pridmore: @FinneyVAPA Jonathan Seligman: @mrSeligman Email: chaoticharmonyclassroom@gmail.com #Quarantine #QuarantineLife #COVID_19 #ShelterInPlace #DistanceLearning #MusicEducation #MusicEd #MusEd Bryan Pridmore is a financial advisor at Mission Trails Financial. Mission Trails Financial provides awareness, education, and implementation for individuals and businesses looking to navigate their financial pathways. As a Fiduciary, the financial advisor is required to act within the best interest of the client. Please set up an appointment by calling (619) 419-0238 or by visiting https://missiontrailsfinancial.com Crystal Pridmore is a co-host of Chaotic Harmony Classroom. To see more of what she is doing, visit Crystal Pridmore's home page at https://www.crystalpridmore.com Production & Equipment provided by Bryan Pridmore with Pridmoria.com "Capturing Memories Worth Treasuring" https://www.pridmoria.com https://www.facebook.com/pridmoria/

This week we have back with us, the best Arts Administrator in the World, Lauren Shelton. Lauren is the coordinator of visual and performing arts in the Chula Vista Elementary School District. We talked about the realities facing arts educators now and in the future advocating why are the arts important, and taking care of the social and emotional needs of ourselves and the people around us. Spiccato: Blanket Round of the Week: My Bed is a Boat Our Social Media: @CHClassroom Marc Keehmer: @mrKeehmer Zoe Kumagai: @msKumagai Crystal Pridmore: @FinneyVAPA Jonathan Seligman: @mrSeligman [Twitter/Instagram] Email: chaoticharmonyclassroom@gmail.com #Quarantine #QuarantineLife #COVID_19 #ShelterInPlace #DistanceLearning #MusicEducation #MusicEd #MusEd @victoriaboler @LongyMusic @1Ciriza @CVESDNews Bryan Pridmore is a financial advisor at Mission Trails Financial. Mission Trails Financial provides awareness, education and implementation for individuals and businesses looking to navigate their financial pathways. As a Fiduciary, the financial advisor is required to act with in the best interest of the client. Please setup an appointment by calling (619) 419-0238 or by visiting https://missiontrailsfinancial.com Crystal Pridmore is a co-host of Chaotic Harmony Classroom. To see more of what she is doing, visit Crystal Pridmore's home page at https://www.crystalpridmore.com Production & Equipment provided by Bryan Pridmore with Pridmoria.com "Capturing Memories Worth Treasuring" https://www.pridmoria.com https://www.facebook.com/pridmoria/