Guest Blogger, Pamela Weaver, on the real impact of using Mastery Belt System with S-Cubed Sight Singing Program for Beginners

I've been writing and posting about the Mastery Belt System which is a companion product for my S-Cubed Sight Singing Program for Beginners.  Pamela Weaver, from The Choir Room on TpT writes about how she used the Belt System last week.  

Someone is going to win the Mega Bundle of my program, a large bundle of the Mastery Belt System, and my Sub Plan bundle one week from today- Here is how to enter.

On the morning of November 24th, someone is going to win the S-Cubed Sight Singing Program Mega Bundle, the new S-Cubed companion product created by Pamela Weaver, the Mastery Belt System, and two months of my sub plans!   

It’s a big Thanksgiving giveaway! You can enter until 11:59 PM on November 23rd.  

http://inthemiddlewithmrd1.blogspot.com/2025/11/thanksgiving-s-cubed-sight-singing.html?m=1

Pamela mentions below how she uses Sight Reading Factory-  Reminder-  If you use Sight Reading Factory with your students, use promo code "scubed" for a 10% discount.  This past summer, I hosted Don Crafton on a Zoom, and we talked about the latest technology systems on Sight Reading Factory.  It's great stuff.  If you missed it, here is the link-  Here it is.

Here is the blog post from Pamela Weaver-

Motivation, Beads, and Sight-Reading Factory 

One of my favorite parts of the Mastery Belt System, built on the S-Cubed Sight Singing Program for Beginners, is the motivation it creates. My students will do anything for their next belt—even when the “belt” is literally just a tiny pony bead. 

And honestly? That motivation is a huge part of why this system works so beautifully across my entire program.

This year I started using Sight-Reading Factory with my intermediate and advanced students as a way to assess the real application of their S-Cubed skills. They don’t need the same content-knowledge checks as my beginners, but I still need to know where their musicianship is landing. With 82 intermediate singers and 47 advanced singers, one-on-one hallway assessments just aren’t possible as often as I’d like.

SRF solves that.

Each student completes two sight-reading assignments a month—and they can do them in less than five minutes.

Yesterday, I told my classes I’d be handing out Orange Beads today. My students know the expectation: if their SRF assignments aren’t done, they don’t get the bead.

Later that night, an eighth grader emailed me to say she had just finished her missing assignment and wanted to make sure her grade was updated in time to earn her belt. This is a student who’s been through S-Cubed and the Mastery Belt System with me before, and now as an eighth grader, she’s applying those skills directly in our repertoire.

But the motivation is still there.

That drive to earn the next bead never goes away.

When a student completes their belt, I hype it up and hand them their bead with full performance energy.  And when they earn all of their beads for the year, they become Masters—one of my students’ favorite end-of-year celebrations.

This small moment—a single email about a missing sight-reading assignment—captures exactly why the Mastery Belt System works.

Pamela Weaver

@the_choirroom