Everything Band Podcast

Susan L. Smith has taught general, choral, and instrumental music at the elementary through collegiate level in Florida, Virginia and Alabama and has served as an author, clinician, conductor, and adjudicator across the United States Topics: Susan’s early career and education, including the lessons she learned from her mother, who was a high school band director in Virginia. The importance of teaching the students who are in front of you, especially now when everything is so uncertain from the Coronavirus Pandemic. Servant leadership and putting others before yourself as a teacher. Setting goals, exercise challenges, and the importance of staying healthy so that you can be there for others. Susan’s work at Troy University with the music education program and the importance of moving past just checking the boxes and focusing on excellence. The importance of connecting with kids and finding ways to bring more kids under your influence by offering technology or guitar classes. Marketing your program. Links: S