A Teaching Career with Childbloom
The Childbloom Difference
Childbloom training empowers you to teach joyfully and profitably.
The Childbloom® brand instantly distinguishes you within your community, signaling specialized expertise, proven results, and professional credibility. That recognition gives Childbloom Programs a lasting competitive edge in the music education marketplace.
Do you have a degree in guitar and ask yourself, “now what?”
This is the crossroads many guitar graduates face as they enter the professional world.
If you have an entrepreneurial spirit, Childbloom licensing and training offers a clear path to building a sustainable music career on your terms. Rather than trading your hard-earned expertise for an hourly rate at a retail music shop, Childbloom empowers you to create something of lasting value: your own studio, and your own professional identity.
The opportunity is substantial. There are more than 350 U.S. cities with populations over 100,000, each filled with families actively seeking quality music education for their children. A well-run Childbloom studio serving just 50 students can generate $50,000 or more annually, often with as little as 15 hours per week of after-school teaching. For adjunct instructors and recent graduates, this can mean higher-value hours, predictable income, and meaningful work that fits alongside other professional commitments.
Why settle for the typical rock-shop, $20-30 an hour when Childbloom’s training, structure, and curriculum are designed to multiply both your impact and your earning potential? The demand is real and growing with the population. There are countless young students eager to learn guitar, and families actively looking for programs that are proven, professional, and child-centered.
Childbloom helps you reach those students. We understand the marketplace, what parents value, and how to deliver a program that works for students, families, and teachers alike. With Childbloom, you’re not just teaching lessons. You’re building a career with direction, stability, and long-term growth.
researched and Proven Curriculum works with young people
The Childbloom curriculum was especially developed for success in teaching a high-skill technique to children ages 5 and up in small groups. The Childbloom method began by consulting human development models and music education research. No other guitar method has done that. From the youngest’s pride in competency to the teenager’s expanding social horizon, the Childbloom curriculum combined with the Childbloom structure, is truly engaging for young people of all ages.
Taking advantage of new research in learning and brain plasticity, we have developed online practice resources for students to aid in their bio-mechanical development with over 200 play-along curriculum videos, interactive flash cards, technical exercises, theory and more.
More Value for your time Through the Childbloom System
Childbloom training opens the door to a powerful and largely untapped market: children ages 5 and up. This is an age group most guitar instructors avoid—not because it lacks demand, but because it requires specialized training and systems. Childbloom provides exactly that.
The Childbloom® brand instantly distinguishes you in a crowded teaching landscape. It signals far more than “guitar lessons.” It communicates specialized training in child development, a proven curriculum, decades of success, and a professional identity built around working effectively with young beginners. Childbloom Directors are not run-of-the-mill guitar teachers, they are music educators with a clear niche, a respected reputation, and a scalable program.
For many, being a Childbloom Director is not a side gig, it’s a career. In markets with sufficient demand, Directors may expand by sponsoring or hiring additional Licensed Instructors, allowing the program to grow beyond a single teacher’s schedule.
At the core of Childbloom is a smart, teacher-centered system that maximizes the value of your teaching time. Childbloom educators successfully teach up to eight students per hour, increasing hourly income while remaining cost-competitive for families. This structure allows teachers to reach more children, serve a broader socio-economic range, and build a more sustainable studio.
The Childbloom Guitar Program was designed by guitar teachers, for guitar teachers and their students. It has thrived for over 45 years because of its thoughtful, economic design, efficient operational model, ongoing training, and the culture of excellence it fosters in students.
Perhaps the strongest testament to the program’s impact: many former Childbloom students have gone on to become Childbloom instructors themselves, and countless alumni now bring their own children to their local Childbloom teacher. That kind of legacy doesn’t happen by accident. It’s the result of a program that works.
the childbloom system allows 10 Weeks Off Yearly!
If you are private instructor already, you know the economic insecurity associated with teaching music lessons: no income during holidays, month-to-month fluctuations due to absences, snow days, students missing lessons, etc.
The Childbloom system solves many of those problems. Childbloom provides income stability. No need to worry about losing all your income during Christmas holidays and school breaks. The Childbloom system allows you to schedule your students and take up to 10 weeks off yearly without your monthly income declining.
Maximize the Value of Your Time – part time with full time income
The Childbloom program is designed to be part-time work. The typical schedule of teaching is less than 4 hours per day. You will make your own schedule. No need to create lesson plans or extra material for your students. The Childbloom curriculum is all you will need. We have unique online resources of curriculum lesson plans and teaching ideas for teachers to use at a glance and bring into their class. You will have time for practice, performance, school, other work or pursuits of happiness.
MORE Income Stability and Opportunity THAN ANY PROGRAM
Besides tuition income, Childbloom Program curriculum creates other income opportunities. Here are some that our entrepreneurial teachers use and develop:
- Enrollment Fees – These fees for the initial enrollment material which includes a monthly newsletter and a subscription to the online Childbloom Learning Club that all new Childbloom families receive upon enrollment create an additional resource for the teacher.
- Stable income through innovative payment structuring – The Childbloom system has taken the instability out of much of the economics of the private music-teaching profession. This client-friendly structure makes it easy on both clients and teachers.
- Curriculum sales. – One of the most labor-intensive and costly parts of music instruction is the development and/or purchase of curriculum for the student. The amount of income generated from materials sold to a typical student will usually cover the marketing costs (and more) to generate that student! We have a convenient online store to order wholesale materials.
- Other income generating opportunities. Many Childbloom Directors develop other value-added sources of income. Ensembles, rock bands, recording classes, theory classes and camps are some of the sources are made possible through the Childbloom Program. These not only take advantage of the robust and valued culture that can be created, but contribute to developing that culture!
- Childbloom Company bonuses. The Childbloom Company offers its Licensees bonuses for quality in teaching, effectiveness in student generation and teacher referrals.
Childbloom can integrate smoothly into Your Lifestyle
Since a typical Childbloom teacher teaches 2-4 hours per day, if you are already a teacher or a performer, no need to change what you are doing. A Childbloom program is designed to grow into your musical lifestyle. The Childbloom Program can easily be a part of a variety of musical career life-styles; whether it is private instruction, university or public school teaching. Once you are a licensed Childbloom Director you may develop your program at your own pace. We are always here to help with consultation, brainstorming and program development.
now childbloom DIRECTOR AND INSTRUCTOR training is online!
As of 8/2021 both Director training and Instructor training can be done online! This can save an Educator thousands in travel and lodging costs. You can train at your own pace. Directors will receive the same complete training in developing their Childbloom studio as in-person training with supplemental in-person online consultation. Important resources are at the fingertips of the trainee, available for download. In addition, curriculum guides are always available to all Instructors to make the teaching creative and informed.
Increase your Credentials by Increasing your Skills
A Childbloom teacher brings to an environment such as a music store or school, a specialist in children’s music education. A Childbloom program can bring a weekly increase in floor traffic, an affluent clientele, a large family customer base, an independent marketing program, hassle-free management, and the ongoing association with other Childbloom Educators to ensure high-quality instruction and program stability and growth. Is it any wonder that Childbloom educators are in great demand by music stores, studios and music schools? As long as there are children and guitars, a Childbloom educator will be in demand.
Curriculum brings high skill, literacy and Musicality
Childbloom isn’t about teaching a style. It’s about teaching the skills that make all styles possible. The Childbloom curriculum was developed for success in teaching a high-skill (“classical guitar”) technique to children ages 5 and up. Once a child develops our kind of skill and learns to read music with our innovative system, he or she can go in whatever stylistic direction desired. Childbloom students have excelled in both pop, indy, country and art music styles. Here is a video of an 11-year old young indy talent. Here is a video of an outstanding Childbloom student playing classical guitar.
From the youngest’s pride in competency to the teenager’s expanding social horizon, the Childbloom curriculum combined with the Childbloom structure, is engaging for children of all ages. A typical Childbloom teacher will teach students from age five all the way up through high-school.
CHILDBLOOM ISN’T FOR EVERYONE, BUT IT MIGHT BE EXACTLY RIGHT FOR YOU.
Call: 512-452-8765 or email: childbloom@aol.com to start the conversation.