This is a quick recommendation for those seeking growth and learning over the summer. My friend Dr. Jeremy Fox has been leading in-person week-long masterclasses called the “Jazz Harmony Retreat” for years, multiple weeks per summer. They are an intimate, carefully curated small-group class focused on giving music educators, and especially choral music educators, the skills to understand and teach jazz in their own classrooms.
He’s created a Zoom-based version of the class, and it’s remarkable how effective it is. Mandy just completed the course (including 3 hours of graduate credit) and was blown away by the content and also by the connections she made with the instructors and her fellow students.
The Jazz Harmony Retreat will run several more times this summer. If traveling to Iowa or one of his other locations would be hard for you, then this might be the summer to acquire those skills! (And as a bonus, learn best practices for distance education….Jeremy and his co-teachers are killing it!)