How this one is meant to be worked through, in the author's own words:
1. Read the Introduction and Chapters 4 to 7 first, in order. Those are the four rules, and everything after them assumes them.
2. Before your next lesson, establish a designated safeguarding contact and an escalation, and write both down. A private music teacher has no designated contact by default, and Section 35.5 treats this as the single most important thing in the book.
3. Start the folder audit in Section 4.5 this week. Every item you currently teach from, one by one, until you can account for all of it. Anything you cannot account for does not go back in the folder.
4. Give every student a written practice assignment this week - four items, each saying what to play, how, how long, and what to listen for, with one of them a break. Section 21.2. Almost nobody does this, and it is the differentiator.
5. Call an insurer with the questions in Resource 9 before the first paid lesson, and get the answers in writing with the date.
6. Confirm any exam syllabus directly from the board every year. It changes annually, and this book states none of it.
7. Already teaching? Start with Chapter 4, then Chapter 21, then Chapter 28 - the folder you have never audited, the assignment you have never written down, and the roughly half to two-thirds of your hours you are not charging for.
8. Publish your qualifications, checks, open-door arrangement, and what happens if something hurts. Almost no local competitor publishes any of these, which makes it a genuine differentiator rather than a nicety.
Written to be used rather than skimmed. Every financial figure is left blank on purpose, and anything touching law, tax, insurance or data protection is written as questions for a qualified professional rather than answers.
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