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Post by yayband914 on Apr 6, 2023 9:16:34 GMT -6
Word is things are shifting around in head band director land at Morton.
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Post by dbalash on Apr 6, 2023 9:28:18 GMT -6
Word is things are shifting around in head band director land at Morton. Agreed. I've had an inkling of this recently. Also, the assistant director position is open.
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Post by marlonbando on Apr 6, 2023 12:44:25 GMT -6
I've got to agree here. I think Marian has been great because Greg Bimm has willed it into existence. Most people don't know this, but Marian doesn't really have a feeder system - they have a handful of private catholic middle schools that they pull from (his wife is actually a band director at one of them) and they might pull 0-3 kids from each middle school ever year. These middle schools have band 1-2 times a week - the kids he gets normally can't play anything outside of a beginning band method book 1 only because they're not getting instruction consistently. Rumors went around for awhile that most every kid in the program takes private lessons, but I've heard him say most of the kids cannot afford them. Greg is a superb teacher and has done so much there despite many things stacked against him - would another band director who already has a band in semi finals jump off what is probably more fertile soil to Marian? I think a more likely scenario is moving the assistant up or hiring someone who has graduated from Marian who wishes to continue the legacy. I really hope for that community that they're able to find the perfect fit - whoever it is is about to get the best mentor they could ever dream of in Greg Bimm. Current assistant Jeremy Turner has 1 year of experience, but did design/work for Greenfield-Central for quite some time. The position has been posted on Marian's website, and they're looking for someone with "significant experience as a band instructor – preferably at the high school or collegiate level, though veteran middle school directors would be considered. - have significant experience in managing the logistics of a large program and supervising other staff." Jeremy also has DCI (World Class) experience, both marching and as an instructor - as well as being a Marian Catholic grad and thus having close knowledge of the program. He may be the best candidate for the position, given the constraints of school enrollment issues, budgetary challenges due to a private school, high tuition cost, a lower expected salary due to a private school, trying to fill a legend’s shoes, and a marching program that is in a somewhat state of flux (although their concert program is as good as ever). Without having a head director position at a previous school, but yet having a solid resume, he may be the perfect fit for the given situation. It’s going to be a very difficult position to fill, and one that will have many, many eyes upon.
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Post by dbalash on Apr 19, 2023 8:11:24 GMT -6
Word is things are shifting around in head band director land at Morton. Tim Gray is no longer listed as band director. Craig Hatter (who was assistant) is now listed as Band Director.
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Post by ccarington on Apr 19, 2023 9:10:53 GMT -6
Word is things are shifting around in head band director land at Morton. Tim Gray is no longer listed as band director. Craig Hatter (who was assistant) is now listed as Band Director. Tim Gray has resigned as Director of Band at Morton. Craig Hatter the current assistant, who came onto their staff during covid in 2020, and Katrina Fitzpatrick, who has been the woodwind caption head since the early 2000s, will both be filling the role as Head Band Director for the upcoming season. The current job posting for a director is to replace Craig Hatter as he moves into the Head Director position.
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Post by crowncrawler on Apr 19, 2023 9:45:55 GMT -6
The Woodlands' assistant band director, Kyle Witty, will be going to Seven Lakes as their newest associate band director.
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Post by LeanderMomma on Apr 19, 2023 19:33:06 GMT -6
The Woodlands' assistant band director, Kyle Witty, will be going to Seven Lakes as their newest associate band director. wait, what?
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Post by crowncrawler on Apr 19, 2023 20:25:35 GMT -6
The Woodlands' assistant band director, Kyle Witty, will be going to Seven Lakes as their newest associate band director. wait, what? Yeah Seven Lakes posted about it on their Instagram
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Post by TWHSPercDad on Apr 19, 2023 20:56:37 GMT -6
Yeah Seven Lakes posted about it on their Instagram More accurately, the former TWHS Band Assistant Director, Kyle Witty. He and Joni Perez resigned in April/May 2022.
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Post by LeanderMomma on Apr 20, 2023 4:02:46 GMT -6
Yeah Seven Lakes posted about it on their Instagram More accurately, the former TWHS Band Assistant Director, Kyle Witty. He and Joni Perez resigned in April/May 2022. Definitely puts it more into perspective thanks!
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Post by ohioguy2 on Apr 20, 2023 9:32:29 GMT -6
Ed Protzman has resigned as the Director of Bands at William Mason to accept a similar position at Portland State University. Mason had posted a middle school band position a few weeks ago, so it is assumed they will shuffle their current staff to fill the position. Jason Sleppy remains as the director of the marching band.
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Post by hewhowaits on Apr 20, 2023 11:37:34 GMT -6
Ed Protzman has resigned as the Director of Bands at William Mason to accept a similar position at Portland State University. Mason had posted a middle school band position a few weeks ago, so it is assumed they will shuffle their current staff to fill the position. Jason Sleppy remains as the director of the marching band. He has done good things for the Mason program and Portland State will benefit greatly from his leadership. As a recipient of the George N. Parks award, you know the level of knowledge and expertise he takes with him anywhere he goes.
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Post by bandirectorman on Apr 20, 2023 15:52:37 GMT -6
Current assistant Jeremy Turner has 1 year of experience, but did design/work for Greenfield-Central for quite some time. The position has been posted on Marian's website, and they're looking for someone with "significant experience as a band instructor – preferably at the high school or collegiate level, though veteran middle school directors would be considered. - have significant experience in managing the logistics of a large program and supervising other staff." Jeremy also has DCI (World Class) experience, both marching and as an instructor - as well as being a Marian Catholic grad and thus having close knowledge of the program. He may be the best candidate for the position, given the constraints of school enrollment issues, budgetary challenges due to a private school, high tuition cost, a lower expected salary due to a private school, trying to fill a legend’s shoes, and a marching program that is in a somewhat state of flux (although their concert program is as good as ever). Without having a head director position at a previous school, but yet having a solid resume, he may be the perfect fit for the given situation. It’s going to be a very difficult position to fill, and one that will have many, many eyes upon. That doesn't sound like what they are looking for at this time. I know a few people who have applied. Their concert program has always been why the marching band has been so successful and not the other way around. I will finally get to see their Symphonic Band for the first time in maybe 10 years at the University of Illinois festival. I believe they won their class last year and will be in exhibition this year as honor band. Should be fun!
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Post by statechamp1239 on Apr 24, 2023 20:53:47 GMT -6
Ms. Perez from The Woodlands and Mr. Lipman from CTJ are joining the USBands Adjudication Advisory Team to the adjudication training and management team with a specific concentration on adjudication activities in Texas. www.usbands.org/news/article.php?ID=108
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Post by ohioguy2 on Apr 25, 2023 14:30:37 GMT -6
Ed Protzman has resigned as the Director of Bands at William Mason to accept a similar position at Portland State University. Mason had posted a middle school band position a few weeks ago, so it is assumed they will shuffle their current staff to fill the position. Jason Sleppy remains as the director of the marching band. William Mason has announced the appointment of Avious Jackson as Director of Bands beginning in the summer of 2023. Mr. Jackson has served on the band staff at Mason for many years. He will oversee the 6-12 band program, conduct the Wind Symphony, and assist Jason Sleppy with the marching band.
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Post by statechamp1239 on Apr 30, 2023 1:09:05 GMT -6
Bourbon County got a new Director of bands, Mr. Taylor Cook, he came from Cumberland County where he served as Director of Bands since 2020 and was assistant director for Harlan County HS and Cumberland County too. http://instagr.am/p/CrEUO5QLP1Q and huge staff change. New drill writer, saxophone tech, new front ensemble tech, low brass tech, and visual techs, and percussion head
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Post by philodemus on Apr 30, 2023 6:40:15 GMT -6
Bourbon County got a new Director of bands, Mr. Taylor Cook, he came from Cumberland County where he served as Director of Bands since 2020 and was assistant director for Harlan County HS and Cumberland County too. http://instagr.am/p/CrEUO5QLP1Q and huge staff change. New drill writer, saxophone tech, new front ensemble tech, low brass tech, and visual techs, and percussion head Interesting. Cumberland was pretty good last season under Mr Cook, but very, very small. Like, small for Kentucky… in BOA terms… I don’t know, microscopic? Like, Texas would look at that group of humans and say, “Is that your third trumpets? Seem kinda small.” Harlan, his previous gig, also tiny. Interesting to see how he adapts to the much larger, and higher expectation program at Bourbon. I see he went to Lindsey Wilson College… part of that Tim Allen Adair lineage? They’ve produced some great directors.
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Post by TeamIndiana on Apr 30, 2023 12:13:21 GMT -6
The Homestead School Board has named Jordan Cain as the new head band director at Homestead High School, IN. He is coming from Snider High School in Fort Wayne. I do not know anything personally about the candidate, but I can say that the parents and alumni groups are not too happy. Here is what is going around the parent and Alumni groups online …
“Homestead has hired a new band director without doing any kind of national search, and they landed on Jordan Cain, the band director at Snider. In his short tenure at Snider he has done nothing but destroy their band program. They can't compete on any level. The current Homestead Band parents and several alumni have already been writing the school board to get them to stop this travesty from happening that is about to hit our band. Snider got 15th in scholastic class last year and their Jazz and Concert bands are one of the worst in the state. There will be a large protest at the next school board meeting to hopefully stop this from happening and show the school board that they need to conduct a national search for our historic band”
It looks like it may be another interesting year for that Homestead Spartan Alliance. I hope the bad apples within the HHS aluminum community embrace the new director this time around.
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Post by paddy on Apr 30, 2023 12:34:27 GMT -6
I wonder how long it will take for the adults in Homestead to realize they are the problem…
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Post by TeamIndiana on Apr 30, 2023 12:49:30 GMT -6
I wonder how long it will take for the adults in Homestead to realize they are the problem… I feel the same. It’s those that were connected with the program before Warfield that seem to be causing problems, not the current students and parents.
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Post by paddy on Apr 30, 2023 13:01:40 GMT -6
I wonder how long it will take for the adults in Homestead to realize they are the problem… I feel the same. It’s those that were connected with the program before Warfield that seem to be causing problems, not the current students and parents. You can “national search” all you want but it doesn’t matter until people apply. Lots of good directors in Indiana passed on applying I’m guessing. Why walk into that situation?
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Post by hdni on Apr 30, 2023 13:20:41 GMT -6
I feel the same. It’s those that were connected with the program before Warfield that seem to be causing problems, not the current students and parents. You can “national search” all you want but it doesn’t matter until people apply. Lots of good directors in Indiana passed on applying I’m guessing. Why walk into that situation? The funny thing is, I've talked to some folks who did apply and a couple who had interviews. I think you would be shocked to learn of the folks that got an interview and got passed up (no, I won't mention names to protect the privacy of those people).
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Post by thewho on Apr 30, 2023 13:23:43 GMT -6
You can “national search” all you want but it doesn’t matter until people apply. Lots of good directors in Indiana passed on applying I’m guessing. Why walk into that situation? The funny thing is, I've talked to some folks who did apply and a couple who had interviews. I think you would be shocked to learn of the folks that got an interview and got passed up (no, I won't mention names to protect the privacy of those people). Can confirm.
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Post by hdni on Apr 30, 2023 13:24:56 GMT -6
The funny thing is, I've talked to some folks who did apply and a couple who had interviews. I think you would be shocked to learn of the folks that got an interview and got passed up (no, I won't mention names to protect the privacy of those people). Can confirm. I'll also confirm that they were not just folks in Indiana, but from from several hours away. I think the pattern we see with a lot of these things is admin often make the easy, local, and/or "hometown boy" hire - for whatever reason, whether it's "I owe someone a favor", "I had this person as a previous student", "People in the school school community/other admin are buddies with this person". That's happened with other jobs mentioned in this thread this year.
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Post by paddy on Apr 30, 2023 13:30:07 GMT -6
I’m sure some fine candidates interviewed. I don’t know many folks up there so I am sure others are more plugged in.
I’ve sat in my fair share of interviews for school positions like this. Sometimes the “pass” isn’t on the school side. For these types of roles, the school is being interviewed as well.
At the end of the day, people who are hiring are trying their best to bring in someone who will fit the culture, understand the expectations, and has a chance (yes chance as no one is a slam dunk hire) to be successful.
To get this type of reaction reinforces the whispers and rumors…
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Post by thewho on Apr 30, 2023 14:28:13 GMT -6
Also, I was aware of the hiring a few days ago so I didn't read through the post fully, but only glanced through it just now.
While the hiring was fairly unexpected, I'm just plain disappointed in the pure ignorance in being against the hiring over claims of the Snider band program being "destroyed". I don't know how aware this poster is of the current state of FWCS, but this has been the case of being severely underfunded for many years now. Cain and many others through the district has worked extremely hard within the boundaries of funding to provide experiences for the students close to the more competitive years the FWCS bands had. To completely disparage the results Snider had is to willingly ignore the state of public education available for a majority of the country.
I wish all the best for Cain, who's going to be carrying the legacy of Homestead on their shoulders.
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Post by hdni on Apr 30, 2023 14:41:07 GMT -6
Also, I was aware of the hiring a few days ago so I didn't read through the post fully, but only glanced through it just now. While the hiring was fairly unexpected, I'm just plain disappointed in the pure ignorance in being against the hiring over claims of the Snider band program being "destroyed". I don't know how aware this poster is of the current state of FWCS, but this has been the case of being severely underfunded for many years now. Cain and many others through the district has worked extremely hard within the boundaries of funding to provide experiences for the students close to the more competitive years the FWCS bands had. To completely disparage the results Snider had is to willingly ignore the state of public education available for a majority of the country. I wish all the best for Cain, who's going to be carrying the legacy of Homestead on their shoulders. Absolutely - I would never wish ill against anyone coming into a new situation, especially someone who is coming in after really strong previous leadership in such a historic program. It's just really surprising to see the hire that was made when other people who were seemingly passed up built some Nationally recognized programs. It's just not what you would expect, and that might be fine.
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Post by TeamIndiana on Apr 30, 2023 14:44:14 GMT -6
Also, I was aware of the hiring a few days ago so I didn't read through the post fully, but only glanced through it just now. While the hiring was fairly unexpected, I'm just plain disappointed in the pure ignorance in being against the hiring over claims of the Snider band program being "destroyed". I don't know how aware this poster is of the current state of FWCS, but this has been the case of being severely underfunded for many years now. Cain and many others through the district has worked extremely hard within the boundaries of funding to provide experiences for the students close to the more competitive years the FWCS bands had. To completely disparage the results Snider had is to willingly ignore the state of public education available for a majority of the country. I wish all the best for Cain, who's going to be carrying the legacy of Homestead on their shoulders. 100% agree. Unfortunately, some only see the placement and not the whole picture. Homestead unfortunately has a handful of “retired band parents” within the alumni community who would rather tear down the program instead of helping to build it up.
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Post by paddy on Apr 30, 2023 14:45:29 GMT -6
Also, I was aware of the hiring a few days ago so I didn't read through the post fully, but only glanced through it just now. While the hiring was fairly unexpected, I'm just plain disappointed in the pure ignorance in being against the hiring over claims of the Snider band program being "destroyed". I don't know how aware this poster is of the current state of FWCS, but this has been the case of being severely underfunded for many years now. Cain and many others through the district has worked extremely hard within the boundaries of funding to provide experiences for the students close to the more competitive years the FWCS bands had. To completely disparage the results Snider had is to willingly ignore the state of public education available for a majority of the country. I wish all the best for Cain, who's going to be carrying the legacy of Homestead on their shoulders. Absolutely - I would never wish ill against anyone coming into a new situation, especially someone who is coming in after really strong previous leadership in such a historic program. It's just really surprising to see the hire that was made when other people who were seemingly passed up built some Nationally recognized programs. It's just not what you would expect, and that might be fine. “Seemingly” is the key word…
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Post by hdni on Apr 30, 2023 14:49:22 GMT -6
Absolutely - I would never wish ill against anyone coming into a new situation, especially someone who is coming in after really strong previous leadership in such a historic program. It's just really surprising to see the hire that was made when other people who were seemingly passed up built some Nationally recognized programs. It's just not what you would expect, and that might be fine. “Seemingly” is the key word… Just playing devils advocate - at least a couple definitely were. Again, I'm not saying anything about the new hire - it's just a surprise.
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