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PART 1 — RECRUITMENT
Introduction
Organize for Success
- Quick Checklist for Choosing a Music Dealer
- Orchestrate Your Publicity
- Enlist Dealer Help
- Understand the School Calendar
Recruitment Preparation
- Select and Collect Recruiting Materials
- Recruiting Is a Full -Time Job
- One-Year Recruiting Calendar
- Recruitment Meeting with Student Checklist
Knowledge is Power
- The Parent Meeting
- Parent Meeting Checklist
- Follow Through
- Keys to Student Success
- Be a Music Educator
- Sample Parent Letter for Beginning of Recruitment Process
- Sample Parent Letter Outlining Goals of the Instrumental Music Program
- How Parents Can Help
- Director's Recruiting Checklist
Sample Forms
- Student Evaluation by Classroom Teacher
- Telephone Recruiting Script
- Instrumental Music Recruiting Meeting Survey
- Instrumental Music Progress Report
- Report to Parent
- Request for Parent Support Group
PART 2 — RETENTION
Public Knowledge Is Public Support
- Preserve Your Most Valuable Resource — Your Students
- Ideas for Retaining Students and Recruiting Parents
- Marketing the Instrumental Music Program
Reasons Students Leave the Program
- Actions That Help Retain Students
- If Students Leave the Program
- Sample Student Drop Form
Materials from Instrument Manufacturers and Retailers
How to Fight Music Cuts |
