The line between sacred and secular in school
This post was written by Nancy Flanagan, an education writer and consultant focusing on teacher leadership. She spent 30 years in a K-12 music classroom in Hartland, Mich, and was named Michigan Teacher of the Year in 1993. She is National Board-certified, and a member of the Teacher Leaders Network. She writes for her blog "Teacher in a Strange Land" for Education week, and her work is featured on the Web site Teachers Lead. By Nancy Flanagan Time for mistletoe and holly. Also, the perennial Music Teacher Question: What about Santa? How to handle holiday performances and musical literature with nominally religious origins is one of those evergreen topics for the Music Educators National Conference.
