The Calhoun Choral Program Handbook... Updated for 2020-21
Congratulations for choosing to be a part of the Calhoun H.S. Choral Program.
This handbook will give you some important information for becoming a successful member of the CCP. Students who are most successful in both their personal life and their music have some things in common. Those common attributes which contribute to their success are as follows:
The reality of COVID-19 has made it necessary to make sweeping updates to the long-standing CCP Online Handbook. This updated handbook is divided into 3 sections: Full In-Person Setting, Remote Setting, and a Hybrid Setting, followed by General Information for All Settings. As the educational setting will surely change throughout the year, understand that this handbook, and the class procedures of the CCP, will surely need to change as well.
To those of you that are returning members to the CCP, understand that, whatever setting we find ourselves in, there will be many differences in how Concert Choir and Chorale will be taught, and what will be taught, compared to previous years. While choral repertoire will continue to be a focus, other topics will be explored. There will be changes and adjustments, some small and some big. But throughout it all, there will be MUSIC.
All I ask of you is to give me your BEST on a daily basis while you are a member of the CCP. Try, even if you make mistakes, and try not to make the same mistake a second time. Rely on yourself and not your neighbor. If you apply the principles listed above, you will be successful, both in music and in life. I care deeply about your learning and I require that you care also! I will push you to achieve your very best.
-Mr. Sanford Sardo, Director of Choral Activities, Calhoun Choral Program
This handbook will give you some important information for becoming a successful member of the CCP. Students who are most successful in both their personal life and their music have some things in common. Those common attributes which contribute to their success are as follows:
- They have a strong personal desire to succeed no matter how hard they have to work.
- They are never afraid to keep trying, even if they fail the first few times.
- They pay no attention to “peer pressure” but instead concern themselves with what they believe is a moral and beneficial course of action.
- They show excellent personal discipline and make every attempt to do as they are instructed by their director.
- They are involved in all of their school studies and are committed to excellence in their total life.
The reality of COVID-19 has made it necessary to make sweeping updates to the long-standing CCP Online Handbook. This updated handbook is divided into 3 sections: Full In-Person Setting, Remote Setting, and a Hybrid Setting, followed by General Information for All Settings. As the educational setting will surely change throughout the year, understand that this handbook, and the class procedures of the CCP, will surely need to change as well.
To those of you that are returning members to the CCP, understand that, whatever setting we find ourselves in, there will be many differences in how Concert Choir and Chorale will be taught, and what will be taught, compared to previous years. While choral repertoire will continue to be a focus, other topics will be explored. There will be changes and adjustments, some small and some big. But throughout it all, there will be MUSIC.
All I ask of you is to give me your BEST on a daily basis while you are a member of the CCP. Try, even if you make mistakes, and try not to make the same mistake a second time. Rely on yourself and not your neighbor. If you apply the principles listed above, you will be successful, both in music and in life. I care deeply about your learning and I require that you care also! I will push you to achieve your very best.
-Mr. Sanford Sardo, Director of Choral Activities, Calhoun Choral Program
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