Coaching Opportunities
Learn Together. Grow Together. Teach with Confidence.
Every music teacher encounters questions.
How do I help a struggling student? How should I sequence this concept? How can I motivate practice? What should I do when a lesson isn't working? How do I grow as a musician, improve my conducting, strengthen my ear training, or become a more confident teacher? How do I build a healthier studio or navigate a difficult professional situation? How do I make a reasonable living as a music teacher, and maintain a healthy work-life balance?
Teaching is a lifelong journey, and none of us has every answer.
One of the greatest benefits of Dennis Frayne Association membership is access to ongoing coaching and mentoring. Whether you are seeking practical teaching ideas, professional guidance, musicianship development, or simply another experienced educator to help you think through a challenge, our coaching opportunities are designed to encourage, support, and strengthen you throughout your career.
Our coaching focuses on real questions from real teachers, with practical conversations that can be applied immediately in your teaching.
Two Ways to Receive Coaching
Monthly Group Coaching Calls
Learn alongside fellow music teachers.
Each month, members are invited to participate in live online coaching sessions led by Dr. Dennis Frayne or another Association coach or mentor. During these interactive sixty-minute meetings, teachers ask questions, discuss teaching challenges, share ideas, and learn together as a professional community.
Often, one teacher's question becomes valuable learning for everyone. A conversation about a beginning piano student may lead to broader discussions about sequencing, motivation, musicianship, or communication with parents. Every participant benefits from hearing a variety of questions, perspectives, and solutions.
Group coaching also provides an opportunity to connect with fellow educators who share a commitment to thoughtful, student-centered music education.
Membership levels each have their own designated coaching calls. Members participate with colleagues at their membership level, while higher membership levels are welcome to join the calls offered to the levels below them. This allows experienced educators to continue supporting and encouraging newer teachers while also enjoying coaching opportunities designed specifically for their own stage of professional growth.
Format
Live online coaching
Sixty-minute sessions
Questions and answers
Practical teaching discussions
Professional community and encouragement
Individual Coaching
Personalized guidance for your unique journey.
Sometimes a conversation is best held one-on-one.
Individual coaching provides sixty minutes of focused time with an Association coach or mentor to discuss whatever would be most helpful to you at that moment. Every teacher's situation is different, and every coaching conversation is tailored to the teacher's goals, questions, and professional needs.
Topics may include classroom teaching, private studio instruction, lesson planning, curriculum, sequencing, musicianship, conducting, sight reading, sight singing, ear training, improvisation, arranging, composition, technology, business development, parent communication, leadership, observations and evaluations, professional growth, certification, or nearly any other aspect of music education.
The purpose is not simply to provide answers, but to help teachers think clearly, develop confidence, discover practical solutions, and continue growing as educators and musicians.
Coaching Rooted in Mentorship
At the Dennis Frayne Association for Music Education, coaching is about more than solving today's problem.
It is about building long-term relationships, encouraging continual growth, and helping music teachers develop the confidence, knowledge, musicianship, and professional judgment that come through thoughtful reflection, meaningful conversation, and years of shared experience.
Every teacher benefits from having someone who listens, asks good questions, offers perspective, and helps illuminate the next step forward.
That is the kind of coaching we strive to provide.
Because music teachers deserve more than occasional advice.
They deserve a professional community that walks alongside them throughout a rewarding, lifelong career in music education.