Organizing Tips for Piano Teachers with Amy Chaplin
Show Notes and Links
A fascination with and appreciation for organization made me eager to chat with Amy Chaplin. My inquiring mind wanted to know how she makes things look so neat and tidy!
Amy’s a piano teacher in Indiana who shares clever tips for organizing a piano studio and couples her passion for piano with her love for food at her site called Piano Pantry.
Listen to the episode to learn how Amy organizes music, digital files and even her recipes and how she’s found a balance tending to both her passions.
Follow the links below to discover more about her organization tips, her site and her favorite tools.
An avid learner, teacher, reader, organizational freak, and cooking enthusiast, Amy Chaplin combines all these passions on PianoPantry.com. She runs an independent piano studio in Northeast Indiana, and she is Immediate Past-President of the Indiana Music Teachers Association.
Chaplin holds a Masters in Piano Pedagogy and Performance from Ball State University, a Bachelor of Music Education K-12 from Huntington University, and a certification in Music Learning Theory and its applications for piano from the Gordon Institute for Music Learning.
Her passion for helping teachers become more productive led her to become a member of the Evernote Community Leaders Program. While she has no formal cooking credentials, she loves to talk about food and is obsessed with trying new recipes and even finds joy in organizing them!
Links from Amy
Sequenced video tutorials for students
Popular Piano Pantry Friday Finds
Paprika—the app Amy uses to organize her digital recipes
Two books Amy couldn’t teach without:
Follow this link for more of Amy’s favorite books
The platform Amy and I use to organize assignments and deliver them to our students: Tonara
The app Amy uses to reinforce pitch names that integrates nicely with Tonara: Note Rush
Find Amy on Instagram
Piano Studio
Food and Recipes
Amy’s three favorite quotes on failure
There’s no such thing as failure, only feedback.
-Anonymous
Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure, they can be turned into wisdom.
-Cat Cora
Many of life’s failures are people who do not realize how close they were to success.
-Thomas Edison
