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Parents as Partners Online.

This week’s videos cover practicing ideas, practical pointers for working with your teacher, and the broader power of music.

There’s still time to join in!

Register for Parents as Partners

Registration for the 2012 Conference is now open online. Prices for members start at $225. Register by March 31 for the early bird discount!

Register Now

Start your new year off on the right foot by registering for Parents as Partners Online!

The 2012 event will begin Monday, January 30
and run through the end of June.

During February and March, new talks on parent education and Suzuki-related topics will be posted weekly, as well as selected presentations from PPO 2011. What better way to nurture yourself and your own studio parents along the Suzuki journey than watching a short video at your convenience?

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The newly re-released book Math Fun for Suzuki Families by Andy J. Felt and George Kung is now available in the SAA Online Store. Using principles of Dr. Suzuki’s approach to education applied to mathematics, Math Fun features more than 50 games for children and parents to play together to build a solid foundation in math.

After adopting Dr. Suzuki’s philosophy into his own teaching methods, Felt, an associate professor of mathematical sciences at the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point and Suzuki parent of two, developed Math Fun with his colleague George Kung,…

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Group Lessons for Suzuki Violin and Viola

By Carolyn McCall
Book, 84 pages, $12.95

Group lesson ideas for violin and viola, organized by book level and technique/skill.

Focus on Suzuki Piano: Creative and Effective Ideas for Teachers and Parents

By Mary Craig Powell
Book, 76 pages, $12.95

During the past few years it has been exciting to watch the area of Suzuki piano develop. Through workshops, institutes, and teacher development courses, parents and teachers have been able to grow and improve their skills in an unprecedented way. I…

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Since you have a profile on the SAA Teacher Search, I thought you’d like to know about some new features we’ve added.

Full Profile Page

Your full profile page (part of our improved online member directory) can be linked from your short profile in the teacher search service. This allows people finding you in the teacher search to view any additional information your choose to share, such as your bio.

Edit your web settings to customize the privacy settings for you profile page. To see how your profile appears to parents finding you in the teacher search, log out while on your…

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Hello forum users,

We have new discussion forums!

I’ve rewritten the forum software to make the forums easier to use, better handle the growing spam problem, and allow for adding special features in the future.

Here are a few of the new features and changes:

User Accounts

You now use the same log in account for the entire SAA website, including these forums. (Previously, you had a second account for the forums.)

• If you had an account with the old forums and the regular SAA website, I’ve done my best to merge the forum account with your SAA account. Just log in with your…

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Four-part series on Chopin by Malgosia Lis, which features original translations of Chopin’s letters by the author and was originally published in the American Suzuki Journal. Now conveniently bound together in a single volume. The 41-page book is spiral bound and includes photos.

You can purchase The Life and Letters of Frédéric Chopin for $12 from the SAA online store.

Registration for Parents as Partners Online is now closed.

Thank you for your support for the SAA’s first PPO event!

As previously announced, registration for Parents as Partners Online closed today (January 14th) at noon, Pacific time.

Due to the overwhelming response, we are unable to take late registrations at this time. We anticipate opening registration to a limited number of late enrollees on Wednesday, January 19, at 12:00 noon Pacific time. Information will be posted on or before that time.

You can join a waitlist and we’ll email you as soon as registration re-opens.

We have a few CDs from the Claremont Trio and the Bad Boyz of Bass still available:

Bad Boyz of Double Bass: Live

Claremont Trio: Mendelssohn Trios Op. 49 & 66

Claremont Trio: Shostakovich & Arensky Trios

Jonathan Cohler & Claremont Trio: Beethoven, Brahms, Dohnányi

They can be purchased from our online store CD section. Hurry, we have 5 or less of each title!

4 Mini Poster Collection of Dr. Shinichi Suzuki

Four 8.5″ x 11″ posters of Dr. Shinichi Suzuki featuring his quotes. Photography by Art Montzka. $14

“If love is deep, much can be accomplished.”
“Beautiful tone, beautiful heart.”
“Tone has a living soul.”
“The words ‘Music will save the world’ are held deep in my heart.”

The Stolen Goldin Violin

By Elizabeth Caulfield Felt, Andy Felt, Craig Felt, and Tom Felt. 131 pages. $7

This is the mystery that everyone will be talking about! A novel for young people that takes place at the American Suzuki Institute on the campus of…

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The online auction starts now!

Log in to bid on items donated by our generous conference sponsors and exhibitors, including:

• Books
• Bows
• Cases
• Instruments
• Strings
• Teaching Aids & Accessories
• Artwork
• Teacher Training Workshops
• and more!

Starting bids range from $15 to $750—up to 80% off! Auction items retail from $75 to $2,000.

Visit the Online Auction!

The auction will end for general membership on May 25. Conference participants can continue to bid until May 30.

Winners will be announced…

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Support the conference by bidding on items in our first online auction!

The auction will begin online on May 3rd and conclude at the conference, with final bids placed in person.

Auction items include:

• Blue Lake Institute Teacher Scholarship
• SPA course offering
• Violin or viola outfit
• Pottery by Alice Bernal
• Many more!

We’ll email you when the auction begins, or you can check the website on May 3rd.

If you would like to donate an item for the auction, please get in touch by April 28!

SAA now has a Twitter account! Follow SAA on Twitter for breaking Suzuki news. You can also keep up with Suzuki news on the SAA Facebook page.

We frequently hear from members who are looking for addresses, phone numbers and emails of other Suzuki friends and colleagues. The SAA Staff is always happy to hear from you, to help you with questions and receive your suggestions.

But, did you know that with your member log in you can get membership information anytime on the SAA website? If your membership isn’t current, you can pay your dues online too!

This year, in addition to sending you brochures by postal mail, Summer Institutes will be sending you information about their programs by email.

If you don’t want to receive Institute info via email from the SAA, update your email preferences and change “Institute Info” to No.

Expanded Summer Institute Info Online

Details on Summer Institute pricing, housing, meals, recreation opportunities, and more are now included in the institute listings.

Institutes in the Journal

Want to read about institutes offline? Look for the Summer Institutes feature in the next American Suzuki Journal coming out in March.

You’re already an SAA member, but if your friends want to know: you can now join the SAA online. Don’t forget, you can also renew your membership online at any time.

More about SAA Membership

If you haven’t been to our website recently, here are a few new things to check out at www.suzukiassociation.org

Member Demographics: How many SAA members are there? What instruments do they play and where do they live? Find out online.
http://suzukiassociation.org/about/stats

Ask the Experts: Last summer, focus groups at summer Institutes were asked to submit questions for a panel of “Suzuki Experts” to answer. Find their insights online.
http://suzukiassociation.org/tags/ask+the+experts

Find Us on Facebook: If you’re a Facebook user, become a fan to stay up on the latest SAA news.
http://facebook.com/suzukiassn

Website Accounts: Create a website account and you can update your address or other membership details whenever…

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How many SAA members are there? What instruments do they play and where do they live? What is their involvement with the Suzuki method: as a teacher, parent, program administrator, or some other role?

Find out: SAA Member Demographics

We can expand the member demographics report with your help. Fill in your age group and gender on your member profile and we’ll have a more detailed report in January.