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| Trust - The Most Vital Component in Leadership by: Guy Harris "Trust is the emotional glue that binds followers and leaders together." - Warren Bennis and Bert Nanus "If you don’t believe in the messenger, you won’t believe the message." -James Kouzes and Barry Posner |
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| Understanding New Teachers Performing The Task Of Assistant Band Director Enables A Positive Mentoring Experience Steve Hankins There are a lot of differences between new (novice) teachers and experienced (expert) teachers. We should know about those differences, and should consider them with both a supervisory and a mentoring perspective when we have young teachers as assistants. |
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| 5 Steps to Stress-Guard Your Family Dr. Tony Flore Joe and Emily live in Southern California with their three young children. Both work and must commute 2 hours daily on busy freeways, often not getting home until 7:30 PM, exhausted and depleted. |
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| Guitarists...Are You a Victim and a Loser? by: Craig Bassett I was thinking today about THE most dangerous enemy of musical progress…the victim mentality. |
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| Yellow Board Post of the Month: Retiring to Mexico Leroy Osmon Editor’s note: Caution, grammar and spell-checkers! This article by Leroy Osmon has been selected as the Yellow Board “Post of the Month.” Actually, it is a summary of thoughts that Leroy has presented several times on this subject. Because it is a “message board post” and not a formal article, no attempt has been made to edit the content. It is written in the informal language and style that all of us would much rather use and enjoy on the Yellow Board. |
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| July 2005 (Colorguard Month) |
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| Famous People Who Were in Band Holly Gonzales Alanis Morrisette (singer) Halle Berry (actress) Celine Dion (singer) Calista Flockhart ("Ally McBeal") [more] |
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April 2005 Maybe This Will Make Sightreading "More Fair!" Commentary by the Boardhost Every year around this time I face a dilemma: exactly how much and what kind of information should I allow about the Texas UIL Sightreading music on the Yellow Board Message Board. Some argue that I shouldn’t allow any information because it is unethical for band directors to know about the music in advance of reading it with their band. [more] Some Thoughts on Horn Playing for Band Directors Richard G. Smith “We only have one thing to sell on the horn. That is the unique and beautiful sound which is particularly the horn. Anything else we try to do, there are countless other instruments that can do it more easily and more securely without the difficulties of the horn.” [more] Six Steps to Grill the Perfect Steak There's nothing better than a nicely grilled juicy steak. But how come I can't duplicate that restaurant, expensive, juicy, melt-in-your mouth, perfectly grilled steak... [more] Family Spring Outing: Wild Flowers in Texas Looking for a great weekend outing for the family? Come see the wildflowers in Texas in the spring. The highway medians and hillsides are full of color – bright red, yellow and blue, pink and cream – but you better look out because cars are always pulling off the side of the highway to ogle and take photographs...[more] If You Want Other People to Like You, Like Yourself First! Many of us mistakenly believe that it’s wrong or conceited, to think we have any good qualities. We may spend a lot of time berating ourselves for our negative qualities, thinking that self criticism is the key to improving our performance. However, a constant focus on our supposed shortcomings can hinder our efforts to make friends with other people...[more] How to Create an Alumni Website by Chris Pulley Have you ever visited websites like classmates.com in search of people from your high school graduating class only to find that it costs too much money? I know I did so I decided to do something about it! It’s not as hard as it sounds. Many websites like geocities.com have web design tools to help you create a decent webpage where you can post reunion information, etc. Better yet, you can do it the way I did it... [more] May 2005 Encouraging is Leadership Steve Hankins Pull My Baton: The Drater Story Chapter One: No Kidding! They Hired Me! The Yellow Board “Post of the Month” Why I Use Sibelius Notation Software Richard G. Smith JUNE 2005 |