One of the most influential books on my music teaching career was a thorough and amazing book called Practical Piano Pedagogy by Dr. Martha Baker-Jordan.
This was required reading for me my junior year of college.
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Found all of my college notes in the back of this book
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Many of the questions that are asked every day by music studio owners are answered in the pages of this massive text.
One of the concepts that she thoroughly drilled into my mind is the title of one of her chapters:
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Getting Paid What You Are Worth
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She has an entire chapter named after this concept.
I really took this to heart in my early 20’s, and I still take it seriously today.
In fact, this is one of the chief missions of Grow Your Music Studio and all of my training programs including Successful Group Lessons!
Over the past three years, I have helped 215+ studios convert to group lessons.
I recently ran a poll with these clients of mine, and asked them three simple questions.
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- What does the average teacher make per hour in your area?
- What do you make per hour?
- How many students do you see at one time?
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Here is a sampling of these answers:
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This is just a random sampling of twelve studio owners in various parts of the country and world.
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- There’s no “right” way to teach group… some of these teachers feel comfortable teaching 3… some of the teachers (not pictured) teach 8 or even 12 at a time!!! (with an assistant of course)
- Studios that teach group make at least 2x per hour what their solo teaching counterparts make. Some studios are making 3x - 5x what their colleagues make!
- I know these studio owners well… and the longer they have taught in group, they have been able to increase their class size with no decrease in student quality or outcomes
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If you are like me, you didn’t get into the teaching profession for the money.
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But, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be paid what you are worth!
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Does this pique your interest?
If so, I invite you to click the button below and download a short ebook that I wrote called: “How to Fill Your Group Lesson Program.”
I will show you all of this… and more.
If you don’t click, you won’t receive many more emails about group lessons for the rest of February.
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Have a great week! I’m looking forward to sharing these things with you!
Very best,
Daniel
PS> I’m going to send one email to you each day this week about group lessons.
After that, you won’t hear from me unless you click the button above.
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