What a difference it is to come into the school year as a second year teacher! I already feel significantly more at ease than last year, and I feel much more in control of what's going on and on top of things. We did/are having some issues with band registration, as we have a lot of new people at central office, so packets didn't get sent out as they should have, and information was not received by families, but the people I've been working with on it have been very patient and helpful and are working hard on trying to remedy the issue. I've also made packets of the information/registration forms to give out to all of the 5th grade classes at demos to make sure that everyone gets the information. I have faith it'll all turn out fine. Everything else right now is looking good so far, I've gotten to get to know the new string teacher and she's pretty awesome, I'm excited to get to work with her.
Demos start tomorrow, hard core recruiting will be done for pretty much all instruments except for saxophone, as I already have a plethora of those. I'm adding more pop songs into the demos in the hopes that it will make the instruments more attractive to the students.
I also need to look into purchasing my own french horn. If the other schools run out of extras to lend me after they lend them out to their students then I'm out of luck for demoing on french horn for my students throughout the year. I'm hoping maybe I can work something out with the rental company to borrow one for the year if I can't find one of my own/borrow one from the middle or high schools.
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