Hi! I’m Stacy Saxton, and I’ve been a music teacher and home educator for over 30 years!
I got my teaching degree in Musical Education from Trinity University in 1990. I gave birth to my first child the year after. I knew very early on that God was calling me to educate my children at home. After graduating my children, I began to see how God was also calling me to equip other families to homeschool.
As I taught my children, I saw that there are very few curriculums that home educators can use to teach the enjoyment of music, or the language of music. Most curriculums focus on note reading, which is pointless if you’re not going to learn an instrument. The rest focus on learning an instrument, which is impossible for a parent to teach if they do not play themselves. All of us hear music daily. We experience it in movies, in the grocery store, in advertisements telling us how to feel about products. We experience it at church. On the radio. In the goofy little songs our children invent.
So I created How to Teach Music (When You’re Not Musical) to fill in the gap for students who need an understanding of music without the skill of an instrument.
I live in Minnesota, where I am a private music tutor and dyslexia tutor. In my free time I enjoy researching brain and body health, spinning and sewing, and spending all the time I can get with my four grandchildren and two children.
