This journal is about music teaching and learning.  It is grounded in the conviction that music is fundamental to the quality of human living.  The purpose of this journal is to chart a collective professional course that highlights the study of students, music, context and ourselves in ways that are instructive for our practice, in particular and in general.  These are the subjects of our scholarship as we seek to advance our understandings.The conversation of the journal and the community from which it springs reflects our practice in honest and scholarly ways.

1. Of Queens and Pawns: Reflections on our conversation over time.

 
2. Footprints: Scholarly accounts of how your thinking has changed over your practice, why and to what effect.

 
3. Flashpoints: Stories that changed our thinking in important ways.

 
4. Music Teacher Education: Works of a ‘centerfold’ import (see trilogy of articles in issue #1).

 
5. Rest Stops: Short pieces that invite us to pause and ponder in fresh ways.

 
6. Disposal Site: Ideas and practices that we have discarded as we mature professionally.

 
7. Good Reads: Some of our best ideas come from our readings: 1. stories for our students, 2. stories for us, 3. writings that inform practice, and 4. reading just for the sheer fun of it.

 
8. In the Spirit of Democracy: A special place for the voices of students.

 
9. Places: Stories of how specific places shape our practice.

 
10. The Mountain Lake Grandmother Project: Honoring the images and inspirations upon which we draw.

 
11. Other ‘places’ will be created as warranted.

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