Dear HCD Private Lesson Students and Families,
We would like to extend our sincere appreciation for your cooperation during this unprecedented time. Our faculty and staff are working diligently to craft creative ways to stay connected with students. Online lessons with your teachers are a wonderful way to provide normalcy and stability. It will also help keep the kids motivated to practice and our adult students on track!
We are excited to bring you online lessons beginning Saturday, March 21. We are encouraging everyone to use
Zoom
for these lessons as it is the easiest online portal to navigate, with the greatest consistency for audio and video.
We anticipate that all private lessons will be provided in either remote, or in-person (pending continued cancellation) by July 1. Our regular academic calendar allows flexibility for make-up lessons and adjusted schedules. As a reminder, the University of Hartford will make a decision regarding continued remote learning requirements by March 27.
Your teacher(s) may have already been in contact with you to schedule your lessons via Zoom. We are confident that with our teachers' careful planning, you or your child’s lesson will be exciting, joyful, and yes, different. We have built a strong toolbox of resources for our faculty, which will help ensure the best-possible student experience.
Most importantly, have fun! We realize this is new for a lot of our families, but we encourage you to stay open-minded and trust in your teacher. Online teaching is new to HCD, but lessons in this format have been taking place with some of the greatest performers and educators all over the world, and are common in the music community!
