Some of the greatest inventions are made by simply making what you wished existing, not making what you think you should.

I wish the following list existed already. I wish I could transform my teaching using the tools below. But they aren’t ready yet.

This list, which takes into account many of the possibilities available to us through the size of our organization and the infinitude of the internet, could be a road map for the next few phases in our suzuki evolution.

I intentionally developed the list thinking that I wouldn’t be the person building out each idea. Mostly so I could unchain my brain from the impossibility of doing it all myself. I hope you champion one of these ideas for the future Suzuki collective.

• Suzuki Pedagogy Archives and Archivists
• DAW’s for teachers
• Intensive training communities like Tinman Elite
• Fellowships for Teachers like the LVMH Prize
• Outfits ready made for launching a teaching business (admin staff, business structures, content strategist, videographers, event planners) like what is available in the Book, Podcast and Real Estate industry
• Clarity around the ‘practice’ of teaching
• Teaching simulators
• A David Zilber like figure who is well read and thinking deeply about how our work sits inside of can be used to face the larger challenges of the world today
• Opportunities to scale ourselves and move past cults of personality
• Monasteries for education
• Less resistance to spirit and art in education
• A Cal Newport like figure who breaks down how to be “So Good They Can’t Ignore You” in violin teaching
• Teaching Editors; or, a way to teach for an expert rather than as an expert
• Collaborative Project possibilities (idea generation, dialogues around teaching concepts, practice, book writing, art intensives, Matrix workshops, meditation retreats)
• Teaching Artists who think of their only obligation as contributing to the Teaching Artform
• More teachers and examples of teachers who only teach, and do so incredibly well
• More teachers and examples of teachers who are living beautiful lives (ex. Jan Frodeno, Joshua Waitzkin, Tyler, The Creator)
• A teaching culture journal rather than just methods– perhaps a Zine?

More to come.