APPI is now accepting memberships for the 2020-2021 academic year!

Please note that all memberships renew in August/September.

Join or Renew Your Membership Today!

The Association of Professional Piano Instructors (APPI) is a non-profit organization that enables piano instructors of all levels and abilities to network with others to energize and enhance the art of teaching piano.

APPI Teachers meet from 11:00- 12:30 pm on the second Friday of the month, September - May.   
New this year: Teacher Meetings are held via Zoom and are always free - visitors are welcome!

 Feel free to eat lunch while listening (for that matter you can brush and floss, paint your fingernails, or even do yoga while listening – isn’t Zoom great?!).

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Teaching through trauma: A trauma-informed approach to teaching music
in a pandemic and post-pandemic world 
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Guest Speaker: Teresa Campbell

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Teacher Meetings are held via Zoom

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Friday, May 14, 2021

 ZOOM Link Coming Soon

​Meeting ID: TBD

​Time: 11:00 am – 12:30 pm

This presentation will discuss the different ways that children and adults exhibit signs of stress and trauma, the behaviors you might see in a zoom lesson or an in-person lesson, 
and concrete ways to help your students navigate a pandemic and post-pandemic world. 

Teresa currently works as an Adult Education Coordinator at The Hartford Public Library, working primarily with adults working towards attaining their GED. She also runs her own business, Campbell Coaching, Curriculum, and Consulting,  through which she teaches online private lessons in violin and viola, teaches adult GED and ESL classes, and gives lectures in the areas of childhood and adult trauma, Social Emotional Learning in the classroom, and using music education to improve literacy and reading comprehension in English Language Learners. During non-covid times she is also an active performer in the area as well as in the Twin Cities. 

Teresa is Suzuki certified through violin book 4, holds CT state teaching licenses in Adult Education and English as a Second Language, and is on the Board of Directors of American Mensa. She lives in Avon, CT with her partner, Ian and dog, James.

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