Want to make your own? This video answers the most frequently asked questions about making them.

I taught piano for 9 years, then I stopped to be around home more. Now I started again - sound familiar? I think many of us public school...

I'm not sure the world is prepared for an interactive method book, but it's here anyway! For Apple users, you can find it by searching...

"Perfect Square" This is a book about a square that gets shredded, ripped, poked, and torn into different pieces, but it uses those...

Greetings! It has been awhile since I've blogged and I apologize. I have been busy at work with a lot of different new ventures,...

Does anyone out there use an iPad? Would you like all the lessons and examples, leading questions, etc, in a digital format? I keep...

I recently came across this adorable book while at the Illinois Music Educator's Conference in Peoria, IL. It was one of those "ah ha!"...

Mark Britt, a teacher in the Chicago Public Schools district, has recently created a fantastic Beat Blocks resource for the Smartboard as...

Slowly, so slowly, the world is starting to get it. We've all known this for years. Check out this article from CBS.

First of all, I just want to say that Beat Blocks should be used just when needed to boost your already brilliant pedagogy. Secondly,...

Recently Beat Blocks were used in a workshop at the Berkshire-Hudson Valley American Orff-Schulwerk Association led by Jennifer Kamradt....

Hello! Just this weekend, Beat Blocks were featured at two different workshops in IL and NY. Attendees to those workshops were offered a...

"I am having fun making my Beat Blocks! I added syncopation to blocks and made some more quarter notes. For the measures I am using green...

In just a year and a half, Beat Blocks have reached 21 states in the US and 4 countries across the globe. Several school districts have...

This past weekend, the Heart of Illinois Orff Chapter featured Beat Blocks in their workshop with Jean Hersey. A free method book and set...

I'm currently taking Orff level II (FINALLY) and as we're talking about basic rhythm building blocks and cadences vs. connectors, I can't...

This was part of a rhythm decoding-lesson my second graders learned.

This spring during the NHL playoffs, my fourth graders learned "Chelsea Dagger" (the Blackhawks' goal song) on xylophones to learn sharps...