Join Fran Kick for a FREE DCI Experience this summer!
Increase your group’s commitment to excellence by bringing all of your students, staff and parents to Kick Start Your Season at one of six select 2017 DCI Tour events. Combining an interactive hands-on session with a DCI show creates a complete experience that’s fast-paced, learning-by-doing and not just sitting, listening and watching. This stadium-sized, leadership-teambuilding session is FREE with tickets purchased for select shows where you can see, hear and feel the performance of Marching Music’s Major League™ LIVE!
Kick Start Your Season with an event that won’t simply fire a few students up, it will spark a fire in your entire organization! Show students what a commitment to excellence can create when everyone works together. Inspire your students to reach new levels of responsibility, discipline and self-awareness, all while nurturing the core values that will help them succeed in life.
Bring your students and reinforce the lessons of:
Paying attention and responding appropriately.
How focus powerfully influences your ability.
Explore the synergistic responsibility between leading and following, teaching and learning.
Discover the difference between “telling people what to do” and “people actually doing it.”
Celebrating excellence and maintaining the self-motivation needed to work hard, get better at what you do, and have fun in the process.
Plus you will get to see some of the finest DCI performers “live in action” pursuing personal and performance excellence both on and off the field.
Teacher Guide included with lesson plans for NAfME National Standards.
My daughter is a lover of all things band. She's a very accomplished musician and plans to become a high school band director. While her personal musical skills are stellar, and her individual achievements quite notable, she is currently in a very frustrating leadership position. I am so proud of her attitude towards this, which is to continually step up and do all she can to foster change and a desire for excellence among her fellow band members. To help her continue on this ‘mission,' she attended your Kick Start session at the DCI Southeastern Championship last weekend and loved it! It gave her a renewed excitement and encouragement as she went to band camp the following Monday. Thank you for your wise words and willingness to reach out to kids! You're awesome!
Leslie Schwegler, Band Director Lincoln High School, Ypsilanti, MI
I thought it was extraordinary for our students to hear such a motivational speaker to get ready for the marching season.
zRiddick via YouTube Student Participant, San Antonio, TX
OMG FRAN KICK He was at my leadership thing (TBA). He is the best and most hilarious speaker ever!
Scott Spradling, Director of Music Concord High School, Elkhart, IN
It was satisfying to hear many of the things we talk about emphasized in the hands-on Kick Start session. It always helps for students to hear things in a different way. Our students worked together with kids from other schools—something I always appreciate. As teachers, we also learned about different ways to work with kids.
ryanthornton23 via YouTube Student Participant, San Antonio, TX
He was an awesome speaker!
Cecilia Clark, Fine Arts Chair McEachern High School, Powder Springs, GA
Kick Start was a huge part of our Marching Band Camp! It was an outstanding way for many of our students to have a taste of leadership training and team building. While leadership camps are a wonderful way for students to prepare for the responsibilities of leadership, not everyone is able to make the decision to attend a residential camp. Plus, many of our students who are not currently on the Student Leadership Team chose to participate too! It got everyone fired up for our season. We are so grateful to have such an exciting and engaging opportunity so close to home!
Brent Turner Youth In Music
Fran Kick is an amazing teacher and motivator. If you get a chance to do the DCI Kick Start, DO IT! If you have tickets to these special events the seminar is FREE!
Susie Ferreira, Group Experience Specialist Drum Corps International
It was great to see students so completely engaged during the session. Fran's expertise on leadership and personal responsibility and the way he incorporates those topics into interactive activities, creates an immediate response from all who are participating. For students, parents, and band directors alike, Fran’s energy and passion are contagious.
Feel free to embed, link to and/or share any of these videos via YouTube on your own site to promote participation in our Kick Start Your Season sessions with your students, parents and staff. For location, schedule and pricing details, just visit http://www.dci.org/groups
Fran Kick
Instruction & Design Concepts
441 Maple Springs Drive
Centerville, OH 45458-9232 USA
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frankick @kickitin.com
937-439-2698 office
937-439-5535 fax
Author of What Makes Kids KICK, Fran Kick has been inspiring people to KICK IT IN and TAKE THE LEAD since 1986 with convention/conference keynotes, breakouts, in-services, orientations, workshops, programs, retreats, educational consulting and publishing.
Fran Kick, M.A. Educational Psychology, CSP, author, professional speaker and consultant knows What Makes Kids Kick! Inspiring people to KICK IT IN® and TAKE THE LEAD since 1986.
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How much screen time for kids? Thanks Dr. Tara Narula for smartly sharing. Some adults need "media mentoring" too. https://t.co/yYLMqlGNyK
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