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Buddy School Assignments
Responsibilities of a SOAR
Liaison Representative
Just exactly what should
you, as a Liaison Committee member, aspire to accomplish to be of maximum
service to your school and to the artist-in-residence endeavor? Here
are some suggestions:
 Plan to attend the two
annual meetings for Liaison representatives - scheduled for early
October and early May. If you cannot attend, make sure to send someone
in your place.
Try to form a SOAR
committee in your school. We have asked principals to submit the names
of three teachers and three parents in each school who would like to serve on
such a committee. Ask your principal who has been chosen and, if no
action has been taken, ask for recommendations. With such a committee,
you can share responsibility, undertake long-range planning, and generate new
ideas for residencies.
Promote awareness in your
school. For example, each fall put a reminder in the weekly bulletin of
application deadlines. During a given residency, make sure teachers and
supportive staff wear SOAR buttons. (Call or email Jan Heller in the Superintendent's
office for a new supply if needed.) Show the SOAR video to new staff
(two different videos available, one from 1995, the other from 1999).
(Your principal should have a copy. If not, call Gladys Veidemanis at
235-6106 for a copy.) Create a bulletin board of photographs and
newspaper publicity of a residency at your school. Be imaginative!
Promote attendance at the
annual April Benefit Concert - and not only in years when your school's
musical groups are performing. This concert is a major source of
funding for us each year and a very wonderful event, featuring more than four
hundred students and a guest alumni artist performing alone and with
students. We could also use volunteers to help with general publicity
and ticket sales.
Volunteer to make a
presentation at a Liaison Meeting about a particularly successful residency
at your school.
Attempt to sponsor at
least one residency each school year that will enhance the school's
curriculum and district goals.
Offer to assist fellow
teachers and departments in the preparation and submission of program
proposals. Make sure applications are delivered by the following
dates: August 1; November 1; January 10; March 1.
Strive for diversity in
the choice of residencies. Spread them around! Also,
emulate the efforts of schools working with other schools in their
"pod" on a common residency. (Joint or group applications
carry a lot of weight!)
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