Four years ago, while I sat in my hotel room in the Union Theological Seminary in New York — things happen when you’re forced to break a lease due to bedbugs, okay? — and worked on an early childhood music education paper, I got an IM from fellow graduate student, Nick Jaworski*.
*I know, the title says ‘I’ even though there’s really a ‘we’ behind Leading Notes. I can only speak for myself here!
Our conversation moved quickly to a Google Doc, where we outlined our thoughts and vision for Leading Notes, a new music education site that would serve as a central hub for longform content and offer teachers an opportunity to share their visions, ideas, and successes.
We contacted teachers we knew and asked them to write about the state of music education, our fingers crossed the whole while that we could actually pull this off.