Meet Our Ambassadors: Classroom Activities Built by Music Teachers

Where did your best lesson come from? For most music teachers, it wasn't a catalog. It was the colleague down the hall, a session at a state conference, or a teacher who said "try this, my students loved it." That's the idea behind the Flat for Education Ambassador Program: music educators sharing the activities that already work in their own classrooms, ready for yours to use.

Today we're publishing the first ambassador activities. It's also the start of something bigger for Flat for Education. Alongside the tools you use to teach, we're now bringing you ready-to-use classroom music activities to make lesson planning easier.

What is the Flat for Education Ambassador Program?

The Flat for Education Ambassador Program is a community of music educators who create classroom activities in Flat for Education and share them with other teachers. Each activity comes from an ambassador's own teaching, and it's published under their name with a public profile page. Teachers can preview the activities, open them in Flat for Education, and adapt them for their own students.

Why we built the ambassador program inside Flat for Education

Music teachers already spend hours building lessons. Many of those lessons are good. Most of them never leave the classroom they were made for.

We kept hearing the same thing at conferences and in support conversations: teachers don't want more generic worksheets. They want something another teacher has actually run with real students, and knows works. So we built the program where those lessons already live. Our ambassadors create their activities in Flat for Education and use them with their students. When you open one, it isn't a PDF to rebuild. It's the activity itself, with its score, instructions and settings, ready to adapt.

That's the difference we care about. This is content we know teachers use, because teachers made it for their own classes first.

Meet the first ambassador activities

Our first ambassadors teach very different classes, from elementary general music to university theory. Here's a taste of what they've shared.

Jennifer Jenkins: composition and choir

Jennifer's Star Wars Cat asks students in grades 4 to 6 to compose a call-and-response piece pairing Star Wars brass with cat meows. It sounds silly. That's the point: nobody worries about getting it wrong, so they focus on rhythm and structure. Her Umoja Tunaimba activity has choir students in grades 6 to 9 rehearse and record their part over a backing track, which saves hours of one-by-one vocal checks. See how her activities fit together in a call and response composition unit for grades 3 to 6.

Blake Bartosh: beginner guitar

Blake shared a short beginner guitar sequence for grades 4 to 6. Students learn their first notes, E, F and G on the high E string, starting with Guitar: E Song, then record themselves playing each song. Here's how to teach the full beginner guitar unit.

Anton Boktor: keyboard, theory and composition

Anton's middle school activities include Aura Lee with a Twist, where grade 7 students keep the first half of the folk song and write their own melody for the second, and My Song, a 12-measure keyboard song in C major with original lyrics and primary chords. Read how Anton's four activities build a primary chords sequence.

"Flat for Education replaced paper, red pens, and standalone notation tools in my classroom: students write, hear, and share work in real time, I can turn a PDF into a score in under a minute, and even the quarter-tone hymns I grew up with finally have a place on the page."

Anton Boktor, Flat for Education ambassador

Wilmer Pachas: university theory, in Spanish

Wilmer teaches at university level and shared his theory activities in Spanish, including a harmonic analysis built on Coldplay's Fix You. All five are covered in our Spanish guide, ejercicios de armonía funcional para la universidad.

How to use an ambassador activity with your class

1. Browse the activity library and pick one that fits your grade level.
2. Read the activity page: the learning objectives, the grade level and the skills it covers.
3. Open it in Flat for Education. If you're new, you can start a free 30-day trial.
4. Adapt it for your students: change the instructions, swap an instrument, or shorten the task.
5. Assign it to your class. Flat for Education integrates with Google Classroom, Microsoft Teams, Canvas, Schoology, and MusicFirst.

Try it this week with Star Wars Cat. It's a low-pressure first composition task, and it works even if your students have never opened a notation editor.

What the ambassador program means for our growing community

Flat for Education started as a place for students to write and share music. It has grown into a full classroom platform, with assignments, assessment and practice tools. Content is the next step, and we want it to come from the community.

For teachers using Flat for Education, that means less time building from scratch and more ideas from colleagues who teach what you teach. For our ambassadors, it means their best work reaches teachers far beyond their own school, with their name on it.

And this is only the first set. More activities and more ambassadors are on the way, across more subjects, grade levels and languages.

Become a Flat for Education ambassador

Have a music activity of your own to share? You could be our next ambassador.

The program is open to music educators in every country, in any setting: general music, band, orchestra, choir, composition, theory, from elementary school to university. You don't need to be a Flat for Education expert. You need a lesson that works and the wish to share it.

Ambassadors have their activities polished and published under their name, get a public profile page, co-host webinars with our team, and get early access to new features. They also receive a personal referral link that gives fellow teachers a discount on Flat for Education.

The application takes about two minutes, and the team reviews applications every week and replies to everyone.

Apply to become an ambassador

A question before you apply?
Astrid runs the Ambassador Program at Flat for Education and would be glad to tell you what it involves.
Book a quick chat with Astrid

Want to meet us in person first? See where we'll be at music education conferences this season.