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Your hardest student isn’t unreachable. You just haven’t been handed the right tools.
Through music,
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What is Emotionally Intelligent Music Instruction?
Music is Powerful
Emotionally Intelligent Music Instruction brings that power to everyone.
Learn how you can join our mission to MAKE EVERYONE MUSICAL.
What's Inside Making Musicians
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Resources
We love to give away many FREE resources to help you work with your students, talk to parents, and win over administrators so you can do the work you love.
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Courses
Master student engagement with the 10-session EIMI framework—backed by 20 years of research and trusted by 6,600+ educators.
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Join Allison in Making Musicians to master a brain-based teaching framework that builds safe, capable, and emotionally healthy musicians.
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What People Are Saying
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“The best practical book on music and the brain I've ever read."
Mari Schay
Professor of Music Education - Portland State University, Oregon
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"My students have never been happier about playing and practicing -and their parents are thrilled!"
Charlee Eaves
Saxophone Professor, Old Dominion University, Virginia
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"The I Am Music syllabus is really working miracles with my learners."
John Njuguna
Choral/General Music Teacher, Mirema School, Nairobi Kenya
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“…she is living rent free (in a good way) in my brain; Allison is a new and powerful influence in my thirty plus years of teaching.”
John-David Struckmann
Veteran Music Teacher, Texas and New York
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