What are your strategies when it comes to beefing up your weaker players? Woodwinds needing better technique, brass needing better sounds, percussion weak at staying in tempo, whole ensemble lacking reading skills (seem to be the biggest issues). Feeling a bit overwhelmed!
I did this with my 7th grade band this year and did it with the HS band last year because I had the same problems.
Take the Robert Getchell practical studies for cornet and type them out for the entire band (feel free to choose your favorite set of etudes, doesn't have to be Getchell). Add neighbor and passing tones for the WWs, which gets their fingers moving and helps improve technique.
The Getchell practical studies are incredibly methodical in how they progress from simple to more advanced. It's very clever and useful for a full band, not just cornet/trumpet.
If you have help in the band hall, have your assistant take the percussion every day for 15 minutes to work fundamentals while your wind players read a Getchell study.
My staff and I use the foundation warm-ups from John McCallister's website. Start on his easy ensemble warm-ups and work your way up. We use the basic foundations throughout the year with our beginners. MY current non-varsity group uses the framework fundamentals for UIL prep.