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The Teacher Toolkit includes:

2 Online Music Masterclasses with JazzED educators (1 hour videos, hosted on YouTube)
5 sessions of Guided Listening to the Great Albums with JazzED Educators (1 hour episodes, hosted as videos on YouTube OR available as streaming podcasts on SoundCloud)
Accompanying worksheets designed for secondary students

Teacher Toolkit worksheets are connected with National Standards, when/if your administrator wants to check that key learning objectives are met.

Worksheets are designed with flexibility in mind. Here are some ideas for how to use them:

Watch/listen to class with your students and use worksheet to ask questions in a group meeting.
Assign a few questions from the worksheet as an “exit ticket” for your grade book.
Have students pick a question for a deep dive research essay.
Pair students on questions for a group project to be shared with the class at a later meeting.
Emergency sub plans…need we say more?

The Teacher Toolkit is free for you and your students. A suggested donation of $25-$250 depending on your school’s resources is very much appreciated (as is any amount).

Your donation goes to paying JazzED educators and supporting Seattle JazzED’s online learning resources. If we can cover the costs of producing these resources through donations, we’ll make more!

Click HERE to make a donation. Checks can be made to Seattle JazzED, 380 Boren Ave N, Seattle, WA 98109.

RSVP to get the Teacher Toolkit

After you fill out the RSVP form, you’ll be directed to the Teacher Toolkit page, which contains all of the online learning resources listed above and the worksheets. You’ll also get the link in a confirmation email. If you have any questions, please contact us at info@seattlejazzed.org.

More about the Toolkit…

The Teacher Toolkit includes access to 2 Online Masterclasses + 5 Guided Listening Sessions, plus accompanying worksheets.

Each class or session is a pre-recorded video so your students can listen or watch in any order, at any time or go back and listen again.

2 Online Masterclasses:

1. The Birth of Jazz with Ben Hunter
Longtime Seattle musician, teacher and arts activist Ben Hunter will take students on a journey to the the birth of Jazz from Jelly Roll to the Hot 5s & 7s. Students will learn:

About the ‘Kings & Queens’ who shaped this music in its early stages.
How the culture and society of the time defined the early sound of Jazz.
Close listening of early jazz tunes. There’s a LOT going on in these songs and Ben will discuss what you’re hearing.

2. The Link: Connecting Breath to Bones to Balance with Shaina Shepherd

This class is taught from a vocal perspective but will be helpful for all musicians. Students will:

Develop their relationship with intentional singing — using musical references, vowel projection, learning to design phrase for our own voices and more
Identify ‘the links’ — understanding placement, point of resonance and breath in their body
Performance design — how to plan for a successful vocal performance with tools for feeling good in their body.

5 Guided Listening to the Great Albums sessions:

Episode #1: Ed Littlefield talks “Sinatra at the Sands”, Frank Sinatra and the Count Basie Orchestra
Episode #2: Rex Gregory talks “Far East Suite”, Duke Ellington
Episode #3: Marina Christopher talks “Testifyin'! Live At The Village Vanguard”, The Benny Green Trio
Episode #4: Kareem Kandi talks “Kelly’s Heroes”, Pete Christlieb and the Bill Ramsay/Milt Kleeb Band
Episode #5: Ruby Dunphy talks “Out to Lunch!”, Eric Dolphy