Bob Habersat Commercial Music Educator, Oak Lawn Community High School, IN Co-Founder of Shedthemusic My favorite musical memories from junior high and high school were in basements and garages writing music with my friends. I'd pick up a guitar, feel the music in my fingers, play some power chords, and we'd make up songs together.. It gave me a connection to music that I still feel today and, more importantly, a way to express myself and connect with other people. Now, I'd b

I sometimes wonder if music education has created a self-feeding monster. We teach students the skills they need to be successful in school music so they can continue participating in school music. We build programs designed to sustain those programs. Students become better band, choir, and orchestra members, helping us build stronger bands, choirs, and orchestras, which then allows us to train the next group of students to do the same.

Learn music production from Bob Habersat (Yamaha 40 Under 40 2025 and TI:ME Teacher of the Year 2026) and Eric Jao (World-Renowned DJ and Ableton Certified Trainer) this summer in the Electronic Music Educator Workshop (EMEW). There are four 2-week cohort sessions where teachers from across the world learn, write, and collaborate with each other.

Eric Jao Professional DJ | Founder of Mix Major | Co-Creator of the Electronic Music ELEMENTS Curriculum | K-8 Electronic Music Production Teacher In 2016, I had over two decades of DJ experience, but was just one year into teaching music production to K-12. I was brought in to teach a semester-long class to 10 middle schoolers. Minutes into that first class, I realized: teaching is just like DJing. Four kids on my right understand every word I’m saying. They’re jus

Bob Habersat Commercial Music Educator, Curriculum Developer, & Consultant | Co-Founder of Shedthemusic | Co-Creator of Electronic Music Elements Bob Habersat (middle) receiving the 2026 Mike Kovins TI:ME Teacher of the Year Award, presented by Walt Straiton (R.), KORG SoundTree Director of Education (L. Michael McCready, TI:ME) I’m a high school choir, music production, and guitar teacher from Illinois. The last week of January marks the pilgrimage that Illinois music educat

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Irwin Kornfeld Publisher of In Tune Monthly I left my post as a Billboard associate publisher 25 years ago and created the reading resource In Tune Monthly shortly thereafter. These were the days of Napster and the beginning of the great digital disintermediation - the sea change that would upend the music business as we knew it, and when the next stylistic shift in music rolled into town (see: “boy bands” and “hip hop”). The mighty music moguls were shaken, and for good re