Policy Debate Topic Announcement, Return to Music & more!
Welcome to the August Performing Arts Newsletter...
a monthly newsletter for all state administrators overseeing Music, Speech, Debate, Theatre and Academics. Please feel free to share the information with those in your state.
Forty-seven delegates from 19 states and 4 national organizations attended the NFHS Policy Debate Topic Selection Meeting in Milwaukee, Wisconsin from August 6-8. Ten topic reports were presented by authors who, for the past eight months, researched each topic area.
The first ballot with these 5 topics will be sent out to states on August 19th.
The NFHS and NAfME have launched Phase III the Return to Music Project. This section features everything involved with starting the 2021 School Year in person: Risk Mitigation Strategies, Face-to-Face Instruction, Recruitment, Advocacy, Copyright & more!
Click here to check out all of the NEW Phase III resources.
The annual conference draws state activities association staff, festival and contest managers, state music and speech associations, and fine arts/performing arts coordinators and educators. The conference provides a unique opportunity for individuals from across the nation to share information and best practices for managing activities. The two groups overlap on Tuesday to allow for collaboration between the two groups and facilitate discussion on topics of common interest. This conference is a great professional development opportunity for your performing arts staff.
The Policy Debate Quarterly, an annual publication in four issues, remains one of the most credible and valuable resources for policy debaters and coaches across the country. It provides a basis for individual research and a springboard for critical analysis of the area selected each year for high school policy debate. Written by Dr. Rich Edwards, this material is only $7 an issue.
Arts Ed New Jersey put together this awesome resource that should be used across the nation as arts programs get back up and running. Arts education has always helped students connect to their creativity, sense of identity, and expression of their voice. In this ever-changing time of recovery and expansion after COVID, arts education is more critical than ever. Arts education will help reconnect students to the power of learning. Arts education will provide for the much-needed social emotional learning needs that students have coming back to the school year.
It’s time to gather the best that arts education offers to move forward – together!
With Marching Band in full swing in the heat of the Summer, these courses are important reminders to help protect students. Heat Illness Prevention helps you minimize the risk of heat illness at your school and stop the leading cause of preventable death in high school activities, Exertional Heat Stroke. The Band Safety Course addresses heat and other weather concerns, the value of hydration, rest and sleep, hearing protection, and other safety considerations.
