Last Wednesday, I was looking through the attendance log for students who have been
attending before and after school practice sessions at Diggs-Latham Elementary. To
my surprise, the log was full with both students that I instruct one-on-one and also
students who are just enrolled in the orchestra program at Diggs-Latham!
There is definitely a small community of orchestra students forming before and after
school, which is exciting! Since December, more and more students have started attending
practice sessions. We had 8 students attend the after school session last Wednesday
when in the past, we've have no more that 4 attend on Wednesday afternoons. It is
really great to see that student attendance is finally catching on because the student
interest in playing music together is growing steadily but surely.