District+8

Summarize your District's processes. Auditions happen for all District Level festivals. District Chorus auditions are held the 4th sunday in October, and District band and Orchestra auditions are always held the Sunday before Thanksgiving.

Every school that participates is guaranteed representation in the District Festival.

Here are the results of the survey conducted over the Winter Festival Season.N= 50 (29 = instrumental directors; 21=choral directors) District 8 Director attitudes about the purpose of the PMEA Festival System. The purpose of the festival system is to/to provide/for:
 * students to work with outstanding Guest Conductor || 4.86 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Opportunity to play difficult repertoire || 4.58 ||  |||||||||||||||| for items > 4, these are viewed as the most powerful purposes of the Festival system. ||
 * Honor best students || 4.56 ||  |||||||||||||||| for items 3, directors think that these are purposes of the Festival system, but most are indifferent. ||
 * Work with students from other schools || 4.36 ||  |||||||||||||||| for items =< 3, these are not viewed as strong purposes for the Festival system. ||
 * Students from small schools play in a full ensemble || 4.3 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Motivate students to practice || 3.8 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Opportunity to learn solo rep. (district audition) || 3.46 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Prepare potential music majors || 3.45 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Validate my program || 3 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Validate PMEA || 2.98 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Travel to perform away from home || 2.76 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * 5 = strongly agree ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * 4 = agree ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * 3 = indifferent ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * 2 = disagree ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * 1 = strongly disagree ||  ||   ||
 * 1 = strongly disagree ||  ||   ||

Responses to additional questions:
 * PMEA adjudicated events are valuable to music education in PA.(**YES = 46, No = 4**) ||
 * Solo and Ensemble Festival is important to my program. (**YES = 22, NO = 26**) ||
 * Large group festival/contest is important to my program. (**YES = 35, NO = 14**) ||
 * I would support PMEA's mandate to limit the number of days missed for Region festivals to 1.5. (**YES = 16, NO = 33**) ||
 * I would support a policy limiting days of school missed to 1.5 at the district level. (**YES = 15, NO = 34**) ||
 * I would support PMEA's mandate to limit the number of days missed for Region festivals to 1.5. (**YES = 16, NO = 33**) ||
 * I would support a policy limiting days of school missed to 1.5 at the district level. (**YES = 15, NO = 34**) ||
 * I would support a policy limiting days of school missed to 1.5 at the district level. (**YES = 15, NO = 34**) ||
 * I would support a policy limiting days of school missed to 1.5 at the district level. (**YES = 15, NO = 34**) ||