After Hours: Conversations for Music Educators
After Hours: Conversations for Music Educators is a music education podcast from Amro Music Stores, Inc. Our After Hours podcast host, Nick Averwater, facilitates engaging conversations each week with band directors, private music teachers, general music educators, orchestra directors, and other music industry professionals just like you. Each podcast guest shares practical advice on things like classroom management in your band program, placing beginners on instruments, band and orchestra recruitment strategies, band boosters, fundraising, and more. The goal of After Hours is to provide a podcast for band directors, orchestra directors, and music educators with strategies for both "on-podium" and “off-podium” skills that can help create a school music program that you can be proud of. If you can't find what you're looking for in our current episodes, we'd love to hear from you! Send us an email with questions or topics you'd like to see addressed in the podcast.
After Hours: Conversations for Music Educators
Creating a Successful Band Experience for Students With Differences And Disabilities
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Season 7
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Episode 3
This week Nick Averwater talks with Dr. Alice Hammel, a music educator who has dedicated her 40-year career to making music programs more supportive, productive, and enjoyable for students with differences and disabilities.
Dr. Hammel has written four books about this subject, and we have links to them below.
Our conversation was recorded in February 2025.
Dr. Hammel's books include:
Teaching Music to Students with Differences and Disabilities: A Label-Free Approach
Teaching Music To Students With Autism
Teaching Music to Students with Differences and Disabilities: A Practical Resource
Winding It Back: Teaching to Individual Differences In Music Classroom and Ensemble Settings