Music For Kiddos Podcast

Stephanie shares all about musical transitions for early childhood. Less verbal cues and more music!     Get free music every month and be a part of our Song-of-the-Month Club!    www.musicforkiddos.com/newsletter Read more about this episode here: https://www.musicforkiddos.com/blog/2022/five-musical-transitions-for-early-childhood We have partnered with West Music. Check out their incredible ins...

Music therapist and bilingual children's musician, Nathalia Palis, joines Stephanie Leavell on this week's episode of the Music For Kiddos Podcast.      Get free music every month and be a part of our Song-of-the-Month Club!    www.musicforkiddos.com/newsletter   We have partnered with West Music. Check out their incredible instruments and their incredible offerings at WestMusic.com or you can pla...

Stephanie Leavell shares five Halloween songs for early childhood music groups, classes or music therapy sessions.   Early bird registration is now open for the Music For Kiddos Symposium, our online conference for music educators & music therapists who work with kids! Register here: https://www.musicforkiddos.com/Symposium   Get free music every month and be a part of our Song-of-the-Month Club!...

On this episode of the Music For Kiddos Podcast, Stephanie Leavell is joined by two amazing children's musicians and music therapists, Gina Ferragame and Julieann Hartley. They talk about the interesting pieces of being a children's musician and share about Gina's newest children's book, "Halloween Parade."   Get free music every month and be a part of our Song-of-the-Month Club!    www.musicforki...

Stephanie Leavell shares her five favorite fall resources for early childhood music groups, classes or music therapy sessions.   Get free music every month and be a part of our Song-of-the-Month Club!    www.musicforkiddos.com/newsletter   We have partnered with West Music. Check out their incredible instruments and their incredible offerings at WestMusic.com or you can place your order at their c...

How do you promote a children's album?  For our last installment of our recording podcast series, Stephanie shares about the final step of the process of recording an album: promotion.     Get free music every month and be a part of our Song-of-the-Month Club!    www.musicforkiddos.com/newsletter   We have partnered with West Music. Check out their incredible instruments and their incredible offer...

This week on the Music For Kiddos Podcast, Stephanie continues with the Recording series with producer, Andrew Anderson. They share about the recording process for Stephanie's upcoming children's album.   Join Laurie Berkner's Early Childhood Songwriting Masterclass at  www.musicforkiddos.com  ($20 OFF until August 16th)     Get free music every month and be a part of our Song-of-the-Month Club!  ...

On this week's episode, Stephanie welcome "the queen of kids' music", Laurie Berkner, to the Music For Kiddos Podcast. We are celebrating the release of her new course "Laurie Berkner's Early Childhood Songwriting Masterclass" available at musicforkiddos.com. Laurie shares about her process of writing songs for children and how you can create your own as a music therapist, music educator, caregive...

This is episode 2 of our "Recording An Album" series. Last week, Stephanie shared about the first few steps (and misteps!) of recording her children's album; how it fell apart, how she lost a significant amount of the album's budget by trying something that didn't work, and many more stumbles that eventually led her to trust in herself and her craft. On today's podcast, Stephanie focuses on sharin...

Have you ever wondered what it takes for your favorite music artists to record an album? Are you interested in the behind-the-scenes of recording an album and sharing it with the world? On this episode of the Music For Kiddos Podcast, Stephanie Leavell talks not only about the logistics of recording her most recent album but also shares about the missteps, wrong turns, and ultimately, how she had...

How do we do it all? The obvious answer is that we absolutely can't. There's no way to do it all because if we attempt to do it all, we are just asking for burnout. Stephanie Leavell talks about envisioning the life that we want and taking an inventory of our priorities as music therapists and music educators.   Join our Music For Kiddos Resource Community; our membership with monthly lesson plans...

In part 3 of our podcast series "We are fried", Stephanie Leavell talks about the different ways in which we are emotionally fried. As a teacher, a music therapist, a parent, or just as a human in this world, we know this has been a very common feeling that has contributed to our burnout the past few years, so let's talk about it.    Join our Music For Kiddos Resource Community waitlist! Receive o...

On this episode, Stephanie Leavell talks about  being fried creatively  as music therapists and music educators and invites you to pause and reflect on these questions: How can you make space for creativity? How can you make space for what creativity needs? What would it mean to make space for rest and nothingness in your life?         Get free music every month and be a part of our Song-of-the-Mo...

The Music For Kiddos Podcast is back! And on this episode, Stephanie shares a bit of what's been going on behind the scenes the past few weeks. She also talks about some of the things she had to change to avoid burning out once again, including letting go of some things. This is an episode that music therapist, music educators and everyone who works with kids will be able to relate because after a...

Speech Language Pathologists Katie and Carly from Wee Talkers join Stephanie on this episode of the Music For Kiddos Podcast. Check them out on Instagram @WeeTalkers and on their website at www.weetalkers.com .     Get free music every month and be a part of our Song-of-the-Month Club!    www.musicforkiddos.com/newsletter   Read more about this episode here: https://www.musicforkiddos.com/blog/pod...

The end of the school year is basically here and we know that for many educators, the next couple of weeks can be a really challenging time. What strategies can be in place to support your mental health? Can you get more rest, do things that nourish yourself or that make you feel good? Perhaps, you might be able to implement some creative strategies or make slight modifications to your plans so th...

Stephanie Leavell shares her favorite sensory tools and props for music therapy sessions and elementary music classes to support kids to regulate their sensory systems.    Our new course, Sensory Songs: Music Considerations For Regulation, is now available at www.musicforkiddos.com !   Get the links for Stephanie's favorite sensory props here: www.musicforkiddos.com/podcast62   We have partnered w...

Stephanie Leavell, MT-BC is joined by Laurie Appel, OTR/L and Kate Schnieder, MT-BC to talk about using music to support sensory kids with regulation. They also share about their new self-paced course, Sensory Songs: Music Considerations For Regulation, available at www.musicforkiddos.com .     Get free music every month and be a part of our Song-of-the-Month Club!    www.musicforkiddos.com/newsle...

The Songwriting 101 series has come to a close on today's episode of the Music For Kiddos Podcast. Stephanie Leavell shares about one of the most important elements of the songwriting process: groove. Groove and feel changes everything because this is how all the pieces of a song feel connected, harmonious and come together.     Get free music every month and be a part of our Song-of-the-Month Clu...

On today's episode of the Music For Kiddos Podcast, Anielka Silva-Berrios (@elementarymusicnotes on Instagram!) joins Stephanie Leavell to among other topics, share about teaching Latin American music concepts and how to incorporate them in elementary music classes and with younger children.   Check out the playlist "Viva La Música" by Ani Silva-Berrios here: https://spoti.fi/369W9Nb Follow Ani on...

Stephanie Leavell continues with our songwriting series on Songwriting. This time, she talks about lyrics and shares what she has learned over the years to help her come up with lyrics. Stephanie also shares some ways to get lyrical ideas to get unstuck when writing lyrics for a song.     Get free music every month and be a part of our Song-of-the-Month Club!    www.musicforkiddos.com/newsletter  ...

Can you really get a high-quality recording with minimal equipment? Yes. You certainly can. Stephanie Leavell welcomes Jenn Mundia to today's episode of the Music For Kiddos Podcast to talk about how to get a high-quality recording with just using a Blue Yeti USB mic and Garageband, which is also the topic of our newly released mini course " DIY Recording ."   Jenn Mundia is a Los Angeles based ar...

We are continuing our songwriting series on the Music For Kiddos Podcast. On this episode, Stephanie Leavell talks about chord progressions in a very basic and simple way to help you in the songwriting process.      Get free music every month and be a part of our Song-of-the-Month Club!    www.musicforkiddos.com/newsletter   Read more about this episode here: https://www.musicforkiddos.com/blog/po...

On this week's episode, Stephanie Leavell is joined by music therapists Kathy Schumacher and Sarah Niileksela to talk about reducing your planning time by using a lot of repetition. Repetition is good for kid's development but it is also very good for us as music educators and music therapists, too.   Get free music every month and be a part of our Song-of-the-Month Club!    www.musicforkiddos.com...

We are starting a songwriting series on the Music For Kiddos Podcast. On the first episode of the series, Stephanie Leavell is taking a look at the "nitty gritty" of songwriting and talking about song form. Not a songwriter? That's ok. This series is going to be really relevant to you as well. Songwriting is tied in to how one uses music with kids. You almost can't separate the two.     Get free m...