Steady, one lesson a week
Stave keeps the lesson book for a one-teacher studio: one page per family, moves inside your rules.
piano · 30 minutes · with Ruth Ellery
$12 a month for one teacher. The first month is free.
Start with your own book: write your rules, add your students, send the season's invoices.
Choose a note Eleven Tuesdays at 4:30 PM, one moved inside the rules. Later times sit higher on the stave.
In plain words
Each family gets one address with their next lesson, their season and the fee on it. No account to make, no app to install.
Notice, make-up moves, teaching hours. You write them once, in your own words, and the page keeps to them when a family asks.
One invoice per student per season, sent in the first week. A lesson moved inside your rules changes nothing on it.
It does not do payroll, video calls or a school register. If you teach alone, it is built for your book and no one else's.
I · The student's page
A family books once and gets one address: their lesson, their season, their fee, and your rules in your own words. This is what the Abrahams see for Mina.
Your rules, printed at the top where nobody can miss them. That is the whole trick.
stave.page/ellery/abrahams
piano · 30 minutes · with Ruth Ellery
“Changes with a day's notice, please. Two make-up moves a season. A lesson missed without notice is charged; a lesson I cancel never is.”
II · Moving a lesson
A parent texts at nine on a Tuesday: can we shift it? Here is what they do instead. The open times are drawn on the week, and so is anything your rules will not allow. Try one.
Mina's lesson sits on Tuesday at 4:30 PM. Choose a hollow note on the stave, or a time from the list.
III · The season's fees
A season is a fixed run of lessons at one price, and the invoice goes out in the first week. Here is what happens to it when a week goes wrong. Change the week and watch the season.
Nobody chases money in October. The season is settled in September and the pencil only comes out when a week goes wrong.
Nothing changes. The lesson is taught and the fee stands.
Other books
Every book is the teacher's own: their words, their rules, their season. These three are open at this week's page.
stave.page/reed/guitar
Tulsa, Oklahoma · 30 and 45 minutes
“The rules ended my nine o'clock texts. The book says it all now.” Marcus
stave.page/mendez/violin
Denton, Texas · 45 minutes
“Parents ask me for the link now. Nobody asks what they owe.” Carla
stave.page/lindqvist/voice
Spokane, Washington · 30 minutes
“My rules do the saying no. I just teach.” Tessa
IV · Your page
Fill in the way you teach. The page beside it is what every family will see, written as you type.
It lives at stave.page/ellery/piano
What a family will see
stave.page/ellery/piano
30 minutes · at your place or mine
“Changes with 24 hours' notice, please. Two make-up moves a season. A lesson missed without notice is charged.”
Who made it
Ruth Ellery taught piano from her front room in Bloomington, Indiana for nine years. The book went from a hardcover notebook to a spreadsheet to eleven text threads, and the fees followed it there. Stave is the page she wanted at the end of all that: one book, one address per student, and rules that say no so she does not have to. She still teaches on Mondays and Tuesdays.
Ruth Ellery · piano · Bloomington, Indiana