We were anticipating adding several positions this year as our district is growing. However, due to political posturing in Austin, we may have to wait a couple of years for this to materialize. Thus, we are left with developing a system that will work with what we have. I know that some districts entire band staff goes from school to school every day. In fact, I was part of this early in my career at what is the equivalent of a 5A now. Does anybody have a period by period schedule of what it looks like for your district? We have 5 directors currently and we believe we will have 6 next year. We will have 2 middle school band programs that are 15 minutes away from eachother. We have 2 high school concert bands. We try to teach all of our beginners in a homogenous setting. Thank you!!
Do you have the space to effectively and efficiently use 5 or 6 directors at once? IMHO, there's a limit to how many people can be useful in a rehearsal at one time. Unless you're splitting into multiple rooms for sectionals or pullouts, you're going way over that.
We have a similar setup to you. 6 directors in the cluster across 3 campuses. The HS directors go to middle schools on a rotating schedule so they work with beginner classes and bands. MS directors do not travel. The HS also has colorguard, jazz, and music theory classes during the day, so that adds to their load.
at a previous school, 5A which is 6A now, we had 5 directors that traveled to every campus. The principals did not like it, but we felt it utilized our staff to its full potential. There were 4 bands at the HS plus colorguard and jazz band, 3 bands at the MS and 5 beginner classes. At the high school, 2 bands met at the same time for all 4 bands. The top 2 bands had HS and MS staff. The intermediate director had a percussion class that he handled alone. At the HS, for the 3rd and 4th bands, 1 HS staff and the Intermediate director handled them. The HS assistant handled the Colorguard and the Intermediate director handled the Jazz Band. At the MS, each band met at a separte time and for the top MS band, the MS staff handled it. The 2nd band was covered by the HS assistant and the MS assistant. The 3rd band was directed by the Intermediate director. All staff covered beginners through the day when bands were covered. The challenge came when the campusses would have varied bell schedules for different reasons. It left us scrambling to make sure everything was covered.