<div dir="ltr">Nick I understand completely what you mean by attracting your students to want to be in the band. I graduated from Huntington (your district neighbor), we also had a very small band when I was in middle/high school. Our band director at the time, had to do the same as you and attract your students and the parents to the program. To be in that role you have to be confident with your motivation and personality. You have to make them want to be a part of your band. I coach cheerleading in elementary and completely understand that you have to get everyone involved to keep that organization going. It is very difficult at times (last year we had a change in our elementary football program, so this year we were really worried about the turnout that we would have). I think for you, like some others, when there is no one else in your building that teaches what you do, it would make it very difficult for others to understand that you have no one to turn to when you have questions. I can go to a follow kindergarten teacher for suggestions, I am sure that you have to go to someone in another district to get those suggestions. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 4:43 PM, Nicholas Turon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nicholas.turon@gmail.com" target="_blank">nicholas.turon@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><b style="font-weight:normal" id="m_-3695850268821834954gmail-docs-internal-guid-5d1eaf4c-0009-6b9a-66e7-c7cb617e6062"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">I feel fairly confident that I have enough a mastery of the three personality traits of a leader (personality, motivation, skill) to be an effective principal.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">As a band director, I am used to being without peers who understand what I do in a building. Because of this, I am in the habit of creating support networks outside of school. I feel these support networks, this cohort quite possibly being one of them, will assist me with stress and may provide council for scenarios for which I am not yet prepared.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Also as a part of my role, unlike perhaps any other teacher or coach in the district, I am in charge of an entire program that keeps students (and their parents) together with me for 8 years or longer. Additionally, students have to </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">choose</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> to be in my class. If I do not attract enough 10 year-olds, or retain enough students through seniors in high school my program will dwindle and die. I bring this up to speak to the transformational leadership and motivational skills I have already been developing under my current role unlike any other teacher or coach. I need to, as a part of keeping my job, to appeal to needs, mold student’s beliefs, and structure a program where, at every level, students can feel they are achieving and heading toward even larger greatness.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Furthermore, with regards to skill I am a product of my generation with regards to technology, I am intimately familiar with leadership practices, and I have regularly shown my abilities to recruit, align, and motivate parents through booster organizations.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">That is not to say I do not have shortcomings. Under every single one of the aspects above, I am still in a state of continuous improvement. I read regularly to rejuvenate my approaches to student leadership. I frequently run into conflicts I do not know how to approach where I go to my mentors for guidance. Like the programs I run, I myself am in a constant state of growth.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In closing, if there were one thing personally I would like to focus on improving more so than others it would be how to quickly recognize personality needs in other people. I believe that that skill can be very useful to me as an administrator and in life.</span></p></b><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br class="m_-3695850268821834954gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="m_-3695850268821834954gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma"><font face="Helvetica" size="2"><span style="font-size:16px"><font face="Arial" size="4" color="navy"><b>Nicholas Turon</b></font><font face="Arial" size="2" color="navy"><br>Director of Bands<br></font></span></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma"><font face="Helvetica" size="2"><span style="font-size:16px"><font face="Arial" size="2" color="navy">Paint Valley Local Schools</font></span></font></div><div><font color="#000080" face="Arial" size="2"><a href="mailto:nicholas.turon@gmail.com" target="_blank">nicholas.turon@gmail.com</a></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma"><font face="Helvetica" size="2"><span style="font-size:16px"><font face="Arial" size="2" color="navy"><span title="Call with Google Voice"><span title="Call with Google Voice"><span id="m_-3695850268821834954gc-number-195" class="m_-3695850268821834954gc-cs-link" title="Call with Google Voice">(740)-816-8266</span></span></span></font></span></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></font></span></div>
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