Connecting to the community through music. As far as being impacted by the pandemic, there are few programs that have been as hardest hit as our music programs. Jeff Weaver is the band director at Oak Bay High School. Their prolific music program regularly enrolls 400+ students in large 60+ class sizes. From how they perform to how they connect within groups and cohorts, everything in their program had to change this year. Jeff shares what these changes entailed, what resources he used as they made these adjustments, and what role provincial and district based connections played in forming his support network to get through this challenging year.

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Resources mentioned by Jeff in this episode: 

Oak Bay Band: https://www.oakbayband.com/

Oak Bay Band on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/oakbayband/

BCTF PSA Groups: https://bctf.ca/psas.aspx

BC Music Educators Association: http://www.bcmusiced.ca/GVTA 

Greater Victoria Teachers' Association Local Specialists: http://gvta.net/index.php/gvta/local-specialist-associations