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The National Music Teacher Mentoring Program relies on our specialist mentors sharing their expert skills and knowledge to help assist other teachers. To help learn a little bit more about how the program works, we sat down with Susan Marshall and Melissa Common, a Mentor/Teacher pairing from Pennington Children’s Centre in South Australia. We got to hear their thoughts on how they came to be a part of the program, how being a part of the program has helped them each gain new skills and knowledge, and their favourite song to teach their students!

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Last month, the small community of Hope Vale in Far North Queensland held the world premiere of a brand new musical, E=Mc2. The musical was written as part of the new science curriculum developed by Good to Great Schools. One of the minds behind the music was David Collins-White, a mentor with the National Music Teacher Mentor Program. Learn a little more about how David got involved in the program and how he came to be writing a brand new musical for Hope Vale’s students.

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It can be understandably difficult to find motivation at the moment. Thankfully for Robert McIntyre, who’s currently undergoing the 2021 composition program, motivation can come from somewhere as simple as a walk down a street he’s been down a thousand times before. We sat down with Robert to talk through his process, how attending an online composition course changed his process, and how to keep motivated during lockdown.

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