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Positive Piano Instruction for Students of Every Age – Located in Muncie, Indiana

Positive Piano Instruction for Students of Every Age – Located in Muncie, Indiana

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Instagram post 2171336979613331761_1355562314 K has been working hard to improve his consistency in triple meter. Much progress here! 👏🏻❤️🎶 (Night Ride, Faber) #whitlockpianostudio #thatgumthough 🤣🥰
Instagram post 2165775108575559833_1355562314 Guess who made it through tonight’s Escape Room with a little over a minute to spare?! 🎶🎉🎃 Lots of teamwork and memorable performances tonight! 🎹#whitlockpianostudio #pianoteacherlife #pianoteachernation
Instagram post 2164867974346120312_1355562314 ...aaaaand we are Escape Room ready 40 mins before today’s first class begins. It might be a new record 😅🤣🎃 I’m ready to have some music fun with a few of my favorite middle schoolers! 🎶 #whitlockpianostudio #escaperoom #middleschoolpianostudents #pianoteacherlife #pianolessons #pianoteachers
Instagram post 2160681413207491159_1355562314 ...the Fortnite Llama came for a lesson today! 🤣 Who knew he was so talented? WPS students really are the best 🥰 #whitlockpianostudio #pianoteacherlife #pianolessons #pianoteachernation
Instagram post 2145793190564087729_1355562314 ...not a typical WPS Alumni update... This sweet girl was the first student I independently contracted with upon moving to Muncie. @desireemisha continued lessons with me through the completion of her undergraduate degree and is one of two students who hold “founding member” legacy status. She - and her precious family - have been in my life longer than my husband. ❤️ She’s also having major surgery this morning because, just a few weeks after her 30th birthday, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. 💔 You all know I consider my studio a family, and since many of my current students can be traced back to referrals of referrals from this family, I thought it only fitting to let you know that one of our own needs a lot of love and prayer today, and in the months to come. ❤️ No one is better at celebrating life than @desireemisha, so I’m looking forward to watching her get on with the party. 🎀
Instagram post 2138702503536423984_1355562314 Back home 🏡 again after another life-giving IMTA State Conference! 🎶🎹💖 🌸As usual, my brain is spinning and I am ready to play, teach, and read ALL the things. 🌸. I was reduced to tears by being asked to repeat the mantra, “I have time”. 🌸 I did not get enough sleep last night because @amystudio88 and I have far too much to talk about. Always. 🌸 @kateboyd1756 is a rockstar, and her reaction to being named IMTA Teacher of the Year was a blessing to witness. 🌸 If you weren’t there, I missed you 💖 🌸I would tag all of you who make conference life so much fun, but I’d miss someone and feel bad. Suffice to say, thanks to my conference buddies who put up with my excitement when I am exclusively in the presence of adults. 🤣 🌸 I got to drop the “immediate” from my title of “immediate past president”. 🌸 I’m pretty sure the Independent Music Teachers in IMTA could solve the world’s peace problems, and it was once again an honor to chair the IMTF Forum. 🌸 Pianist phenom Drew Peterson puts on a great show. First you want to pinch his cheeks, then he knocks your socks off. 🌸If you don’t have a piano/voice/whatever teacher in your life, you are missing out. I am blessed to have well-over 100 in mine and they all make my world a better place 💕
Instagram post 2132973127146548072_1355562314 A great start at a new school scored this guy the first Shout-Out Board signing of Fall 2019! ❤️ I love celebrating student accomplishments inside AND outside the studio! 🥰🎶🎹 #whitlockpianostudio #pianoteacherlife #pianolessons #pianoteachernation
Instagram post 2131456664942301980_1355562314 ...because when a determined toddler lives in your house, your “piano pets” don’t stand a chance... 😂 I’m so happy my students don’t mind playing with trunkless elephants, panda heads, half-hedgehogs, snout-less pigs, and more 🤣 #whitlockpianostudio #pianoteacherlife #pianoteacher #pianoteachernation #pianoteachermom
Instagram post 2125189392317621360_1355562314 ...when you KNOW that cartoon clown is not going to fly with your preteen student, you get creative with your favorite swag stickers and aim for abstract art 🤣❤️ #whateverittakes #whitlockpianostudio #pianoteacherlife #pianoteachernation
Instagram post 2123681361989940488_1355562314 This crew stumbled onto a beautifully-relatable conversation about negative self-talk and practice time frustration in Performance Class this week. 👍🏻 They laughed when they realized each of them has the same struggle with being too hard on themselves during practice time. ❤️ Side-note: Middle schoolers can get a bum rep...but I have a tried-and-true two step guide to working with this age: 1, heap relentless, affirming, unapologetic love on them, and, 2, don’t let their hard-to-please exteriors keep you from cracking lots of silly jokes. They still enjoy them, even if they don’t appear to. 🤣❤️ I love, love, love my WPS middle schoolers 🎶🥰🎹
Instagram post 2122810433252778927_1355562314 What does a piano teacher do on Labor Day Weekend? Work on a year’s worth of repertoire assignments for 36 students, of course! 🤣❤️🎶 This is one of those parts of the job that brings me an unusual amount of joy. 🤓 AND - since my kitchen has been overtaken with music books, it’s a reasonable conclusion we will go out for dinner, right? 🤣🎹❤️ #whitlockpianostudio #pianoteacherlife #pianoteachernation
Instagram post 2121934944485089953_1355562314 Five kids from four schools are now Piano BFF’s, thanks to August performance classes! 🤗🎶🥰 We are sad to see our month of group classes come to an end, but are also PUMPED for solo lessons to resume next week! (And, have no fear, our Halloween-Week classes will be here before we know it 🧡). #whitlockpianostudio #AugustPerformanceClasses #pianoteacherlife #pianolessons #pianoteachernation
Instagram post 2121396213424448448_1355562314 ‼️ Local friends! ‼️ I’d been considering starting some local preschool music/movement classes this fall...but just as my plate was looking a little-too-full, @tiffanyjarnold announced she was going to offer Suzuki preschool classes for ages 0-4. 🎶❤️🎶 You can currently join a class on Wednesday or Saturday mornings. 🎶 Message me for details!! 🤗 PS: you can find Ava and I in the Wednesday morning class! ❤️
Instagram post 2112756466707694674_1355562314 Piano parents: Don’t get caught looking like this! 😳🤣 Check your inboxes for important Fall Scheduling details! 🎶❤️🎹 #whitlockpianostudio #lovethatkid
Instagram post 2111362912987028737_1355562314 ...a rousing game of keyboard-building (boys vs girls!) 🤣❤️ (spoiler alert: they ended up tying, much to the disappointment of both teams🤣). #whitlockpianostudio #backtoschoolperformanceclasses #thankssusanparadis #pianoteacherlife #pianolessons #pianoteachernation
Instagram post 2110485056761308170_1355562314 Oh, the faces of middle schoolers (plus a couple of bonus #pianoteacherkids) the first time they hear Prepared Piano live and in person. 🤣🎶🎹 #whitlockpianostudio #pianoteacherlife #pianolessons #pianoteachernation
Instagram post 2110477565323319647_1355562314 Our third performance class of the week sure looked sweet last night! ☺️🎶🎹 I love hearing these kiddos present what they have been working on this summer ❤️❤️❤️ #whitlockpianostudio #pianoteacherlife #pianolessons #pianoteachernation
Instagram post 2109538320039358509_1355562314 ...when you ask smarty-pants students to sit in a triangle 😂🤷🏼‍♀️#whitlockpianostudio #triolesson #pianoteacherlife #pianolessons #pianoteachernation
Instagram post 2109069350102393236_1355562314 Our first performance class of the school year is starting in 20 minutes and this piano teacher is SO EXCITED to have her people back in the studio!! Middle schoolers, I am ready for you! ❤️🎶🤗#whitlockpianostudio #pianoteacherlife #pianolessons #pianoteachernation
Instagram post 2108885858244860916_1355562314 ...kicking off my 23rd year of private teaching TODAY! 🎉 My students are probably tired of hearing me talk about the importance of doing things *correctly* more times...but when I read this simple statement in James Clear's book, Atomic Habits, I couldn't resist making it our 2019-2020 Studio Theme: You get what you repeat. 💖 Cheers to the best fall semester (and best practice habits) yet! 🥳🎹👏🥰 #whitlockpianostudio #pianoteacherlife #pianoteachernation #pianolessons #atomichabits
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