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The Band Director's Lounge Podcast


Welcome to the Band Director’s lounge, a podcast about what makes great instrumental music programs. I am a band director trying to build a great program by learning from others and sharing my knowledge along the way.

Feb 20, 2019

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Today I welcome back Jim Callahan for a brief conversation about living in the community where you teach & lessons learned from the first few years of teaching.

  • Daily focus and day to day decisions
  • Administrator relationships
  • Music store road reps as a resource
  • Networking and your subsection

If you missed the first episode with Jim, be sure to check out Episode #2 to learn about Jim and his program.

This was recorded on a day where Jim and I both happened to have a snow day for our district so we thought it might be great to check-in, reconnect and talk shop for a little bit.

If you haven’t done so, be sure to check out the newly launched thebanddirectorslounge.com. I just finished importing in the podcast episodes and am populating the website with new information, including a concise location to view all of the books that have been mentioned from each episode. Over the coming weeks and months I hope to grow this website into another resource not only for the podcast but with other band director resources as well.

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Thanks for tuning in! We’ll see you back here next time in The Band Director’s Lounge.

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