Martin Urbach·Jul 21, 2020“Peeling The Onion”: The importance of staying engaged, accountable and committed through the…Here are my thoughts on the importance of “peeling the onion” as we do social justice work, critically thinking, looking and acting toward…
Martin Urbach·Apr 26, 2020Freedom Dreaming A New Music Education in times of #Corona Virus and beyond.”Find something you love doing, and do it ’til it kills you.”
Martin Urbach·Apr 4, 2020Zoombombing is a mirror that forces to look at ourselves.If you are an educator and you use Zoom either because you already taught online or because you were made to move your classroom to it in…
Martin Urbach·Mar 16, 2020Toward Acknowledging the ME in PandeMEc: Teaching Music in #COVID_19 times and why we should focus…Dear Music Teachers in K-12 schools,
Martin Urbach·Mar 15, 202010+ Ways of Supporting Youth IF their school districts have not closed to #FlattenTheCurve in…Teachers: Remember that it is ilegal to tell kids to stay home and not go to school (even to not spread death in a pandemic). Things are…
Martin Urbach·Feb 20, 2020“Code Switching”: Racist Violence Disguised as “Woke” Care.White supremacy culture has always made it easy to rationalize itself as to why we should partake in it. Racist violent ideas, behaviors…A response icon1A response icon1
Martin Urbach·Aug 14, 2019“You Might Be Left With Silence When You’re Done”; The White Fear of Taking Racist Songs Out of…Unpacking the thread about racism in music education from my post on the Kodaly Educators Facebook page on 8/11/19A response icon6A response icon6
Martin Urbach·Aug 20, 2018Emergent Strategies for the first(all) days of school.This summer I read the gorgeous and transformative book “Emergent Strategy” by Adrienne Maree Brown. If you can do one good thing for…
Martin Urbach·Sep 5, 2017The Feels Are Alive, with the sound of “New School Year” ← 10 things I’ll remind myself about…Tomorrow I begin year 13 of teaching music in public schools in New York City. Here are 10 things I will remind myself, so when the going…
