Online Workshop with Christine Goodner
November 20th, 2026 | 9am Pacific
Join music educator Christine E Goodner host of the Time to Practice podcast and author of Beyond the Music Lesson and Music Practice Makeover for this online session all about ways to give feedback during home music practice.
While open to everyone, this session is intended to provide strategies and ideas for working with young Suzuki students when a parent or caregiver is involved in practice sessions and asked to help guide home practice sessions.
This session is appropriate for teachers looking for ideas and resources to share with families in their programs as well as parents or caregivers who are looking for more strategies as they work with their own children in home practice.
Christine will share expert advice, research-based suggestions, and her number one way of helping families reduce conflict related to feedback during music practice.
This session WILL be recorded if you can’t attend live. A recording will be sent out within 24 hours of the event.
Parent Talk with Christine Goodner & Barbie Wong
Recorded on August 15th, 2026
Join music educators Christine E Goodner and Barbie Wong for this supportive and informational one -hour ONLINE session where they will share helpful ideas to help you set your child up for a productive year in music lessons.
We’ll especially talk about getting back in the routine of daily practice once school is back in session, what gets in the way of establishing successful routines, and ways families can support their student in music lessons this school year.
Recorded Parent Talk: Helping Students Build Focus in a Distracted World
This session was held live on Saturday, March 7th. 2026. If you’d like to purchase a copy to view you can do so at two different rates:
Individual Registration HERE
Studio Registration HERE, which gives you permission to share the link with your own students or watch it together in a group setting.
This talk will address:
*challenges that come up related to attention, concentration, and focus in music lessons and home practice
*helpful information to know about the development of these skills (both developmentally and academically)
*ways we can support students in lessons and practice at home.
This teacher talk was recorded live in April 2025 and is intended for you if you’re a private music studio teacher thinking about starting parent-teacher (or family-teacher) conferences in your studio.
We’ll talk about
*ways to structure your conferences,
*how to help prepare for a productive conversation,
*and how to create a system for following up with any takeaways that you want to follow up on after you meet with the families in your studio.
There was time for Q & A after this session, and I am happy to answer any follow-up questions you have after watching.
You will also get access to a Google folder with a few resources to help you as you plan for your next set of conferences. Suggested fee is $30, but is being set as pay-what-you-can starting at $20 to make each session accessible to as many people as possible.
Interested in booking Christine Goodner for a parent talk, book club/discussion event, Enrichment Course, or guest speaker for your upcoming event?
Please fill out THIS FORM, and Christine will reach out to you to set something up!