northtexasbandfan Posted December 12, 2017 Report Share Posted December 12, 2017 https://www.lisd.net/site/default.aspx?PageType=3&DomainID=4&ModuleInstanceID=8&ViewID=6446EE88-D30C-497E-9316-3F8874B3E108&RenderLoc=0&FlexDataID=32229&PageID=1 Will be interesting to see how this plays out for Marcus. She'll certainly be a strong advocate for all of the LISD bands. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KinDallas Posted December 12, 2017 Report Share Posted December 12, 2017 It's a very sad day for the students there. Then again, it's also an opportunity. And DW is going to be an exceptional fine arts director. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NTXBandFan Posted December 12, 2017 Report Share Posted December 12, 2017 Another interesting note from the same board meeting that announced her as the new Fine Arts Director. The District is considering starting school earlier, basically, cutting a lot of band camp out. With teacher meetings and such, there will likely only be 1 week available for full day practice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bandwoww Posted December 12, 2017 Report Share Posted December 12, 2017 I think Keller ISD did the same thing last year. School started a week earlier but it didn’t seem to affect the Band program that much at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
takigan Posted December 13, 2017 Report Share Posted December 13, 2017 It can work...especially if you're prepared for it well in advance. Basically it means scaling back the drill, the visual layers, ditching your pre-show, and starting your competition season later with a quicker planned peak. Additional solutions include learning stand-tunes during May camp, expanding May freshman camp by a couple days and getting as much music out of the mix as possible so that one week can be spent focusing completely 100% on learning the show. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChristopherRoden Posted December 13, 2017 Report Share Posted December 13, 2017 It can work...especially if you're prepared for it well in advance. Basically it means scaling back the drill, the visual layers, ditching your pre-show, and starting your competition season later with a quicker planned peak. Additional solutions include learning stand-tunes during May camp, expanding May freshman camp by a couple days and getting as much music out of the mix as possible so that one week can be spent focusing completely 100% on learning the show. Typically, the first week (or most of it) is learning fundamentals for freshmen and reteaching the returning members, at least at my school Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
takigan Posted December 13, 2017 Report Share Posted December 13, 2017 You get 10 hours of free time to spend on marching fundamentals at any point in the summer before August 1st. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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