BatonSync is a software application to help with managing a music ensemble classroom.
Instrument inventory management, uniform management, ensemble management, student information and details, music library, and finances are all included in BatonSync.
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02/28/2026
Fun time this morning at the exhibits at KMEA! Dr. Shawn Knopp from stopped by and he has been a partner for years! 💚🎶
02/28/2026
We have been having fun at KMEA! Come and see us at the BatonSync booth for the last day of exhibits tomorrow!! Kansas Music Educators Association
02/27/2026
We are having a fun time at KMEA! Special fun time with Vikkie helping us out at the booth! 💚🎶 Come and see us in the exhibit hall!
02/24/2026
We are excited to see everyone at KMEA this week! is here to help you get more organized in your music program!
Fun time at MMEA last week! If we missed you in Missouri, we will be at Kansas MEA at the end of February or online anytime. Contact for a free demo or get your entire district on the same inventory system with BatonSync!
02/06/2026
Fun time at MMEA last week! If we missed you in Missouri, we will be at Kansas MEA at the end of February or online anytime. Contact for a free demo or get your entire district on the same inventory system with BatonSync!
01/06/2026
Welcome to 2026! Exciting things happening as we are looking forward to attending the Missouri Music Educators Association Conference at the end of January for the first time! See you there! 🎶
08/26/2025
We love this “Sunday Spark” message from Dr. Shawn Knopp on his podcast, “Behind the Baton”!
What expectations do you set in your classroom?
Podcast Episode · Behind the Baton · 08/24/2025 · 4m
08/05/2025
Quick Tip Tuesday - Start the year right - with Student Management and Exporting https://mailchi.mp/batonsync/quick-tip-tuesday-start-the-year-right-18146429 Use all of the features of student management for filtering options, sorting, and stacking the filters for maximum usability in the student features. How do you use the best features for students? What would you like to see added? Let us know!
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A few years ago, we were getting ready to do instrument inventory in my band room at my middle school. I had recently found out that the district technology department had gone through the school and “cloned” - essentially wiped out - all of the school computers. I had lost everything including class records, locker check sheet pages, and my entire instrument inventory and repair history. Ugh. The. Worst.
I asked my wonderful husband, Kris, if he would help me re-do the inventory. I didn’t have a district laptop at the time, and my storage room was across the band room from my office. Therefore, we sat on the floor in the hot (read: non-air conditioned in the summer months) room for at least three hours working on this project. We were reading serial numbers, model numbers, and everything else and writing it all on a yellow legal pad. When we were nearing the end, Kris pondered, “Why isn’t there a better way to do this?”
I answered him, “Well, there is a better way, but it costs SO MUCH money; especially since I teach at three different schools every day. I definitely do not have a budget for that.”
We thought about it for a while, and he finally said, “I think that I can build a tool for you and other band directors to make all of this so much easier...and cheaper.”
So we did.
We started to put the idea together at home in Lawrence, Kansas in 2017 at our local library where they have giant, wall-sized, mounted whiteboards. We drew boxes and lines, made lists, erased, argued, discussed, drew some more, color-coordinated, erased, re-drew, argued more, and it all started to come together. We even acquired a large whiteboard for ourselves and mounted it in our garage later!
We told some of our band director friends about our idea, and they all responded positively with lots of excitement for the project. We had a few of them volunteer to test out the early versions of BatonSync and give us feedback about what they liked or didn’t like and what they would like to see added in the future as new features. We have taken all of that feedback into account to develop BatonSync to meet the needs of instrumental, vocal, and general music directors/teachers who are “in the trenches” and doing the teaching and managing.
We have always wanted to develop BatonSync in a way that will be the best to use for directors. We wanted to make a tool that will make the job of being a music director/teacher easier (because directors don’t have the time or patience for something more difficult).
We are so excited to be helping our friends and colleagues in music education to be more efficient at all of the non-music parts of the job, so that we can all have more time for music in our lives!
