Christy Hodder is the founder and director of Scotia Suzuki School of Music in Halifax, which she started in 2017 and has grown to more than 250 students and 25 teachers. She holds a Bachelor of Music Education from Acadia University, where she studied violin with Edmund Agopian, and has Suzuki teacher training with Ronda Cole, Pat D'Ercole, Sherry Cadow, Dorothy Jones, Charles Krigbaum and Martha Shackford. An expert music educator, she runs the platform Practicing Pro, which helps parents and teachers around the world make home practice positive, effective and fun. Here she shares tested, practical advice for families supporting a young musician at home. She also founded the Nova Scotia Youth Ambassadors and spent eight years as lead of the Celtic band Lochaber, with three recordings.