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Tags and Swipes, Fall 2018

From our Regional Education Director

Happy Fall Region 1!! Once the visiting faculty’s classes are set, the
regional faculty is plugged in to fill the
Pilot governance: “gaps”. The schedule is analyzed to try and have
something for many different learners during
The new Regional Governance is trucking along! every time slot. Once a draft schedule is made,
The best chance for a successful transition is to the faculty reviews it and adjustments are made,
have the current leaders with their experience and and it eventually becomes finalized. (Some of
knowledge be the trail breakers; thus the visiting faculty choose not to have handouts,
Internationals request to have them work it. (It etc. - they are all different).
would have been difficult for a brand new person
in one of these positions). The plan, as I see it, is So far this method has been met with positives
to get people effectively working on the resource comments. (It takes many hours to accomplish all
teams, so that they are the ones to actually make this, and the process is not taken lightly).
things happen. The directors are the ones to
delegate jobs and oversee that they are done. ....It This summer a couple of us planned a music
takes a village.... team/director educational day for 5 choruses. It
was very well received, so we would like to
RED Position: repeat it for the lower level choruses. This idea
came to light after brainstorming the needs of the
The RED oversees, the chorus directors, region based on the judges comments. The
arranging program, YWIH, facility coordinator, judges said some of the very basics; notes and
competition, and all the components to see that words, need to be addressed and insisted by each
we have a great educational program. chorus and quartet.

The region plans 5 years in advance. When I That’s it in a nutshell!
took over the position, we were only 1 year out
so I had to quickly book faculty to fill the 5 Good luck to our International competitors!!
years. Choosing faculty is tough, as there are
only so many who are good teachers and who can .
teach a variety of the barbershop elements.

The educational plan is based on the judges'
comments that are received each year from
contest. Yes.....in a perfect world, we’d know the
comments and then could choose the faculty to
teach, but that is why getting faculty with a broad
knowledge base works well! Everyone who
comes into Region One is given our contest
tabulations and all the comments, as well as my
overall summary of our needs. We then use that
to build each regional weekend schedule of
classes The level of the classes are up to the Heidi Zacchera
visiting faculty, but they know that they need to hzacchera@aol.com
meet the needs of the majority. Regional Education Director,
Regional Executive Committee

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North Atlantic Region 1 Sweet Adelines