-: My name is Kristin Caviani.
I teach middle school general music
and choir at Northside Middle.
I don't work eight hours a day.
I work about 15 hours a day.
I am lucky enough to have a planning period,
so one of my periods in the day
I get solely just to plan for the coming days.
And then I do a lot of stuff at home as well.
You have to learn about your kids.
You have to know your kids so that you know
what they're going to respond to
and what they are going to like
and what is going to help grow them and help them grow
as musicians and as humans.