Once your troupe becomes official, you and your students take charge of establishing the culture, rituals, practices, and overall atmosphere of your chapter. While we're here to offer guidance, you, as the troupe director and members, are the leaders of your troupe.
Here's a concise step-by-step checklist for inductions:
Here's a concise step-by-step checklist for inductions:
- Hold an interest meeting. Ask- Who is interested in becoming inducted into ITS?
- Share out the point application (your own copy) for students to complete with their past and current theatrical experiences for certain point values.
- Have students fill out the Member Google form, (your own copy) for the exact information you need to collect to put them into the official ITS/ EdTA system, and pay $35 for the one-time membership fee, which lasts them a lifetime. (More materials at the bottom of the newsletter to promote and explain ITS.)
- Hold inductions. Here is a sample outline to use. You can create your own rituals, traditions, or if you are in a pinch, it can be less than 30 minutes before school starts or before a rehearsal for example.
- Log into your myedta account to input all of your new inductees.
- Pay the lump sum as the director, if your students didn't pay EdTA directly. Our suggestion is to collect the money as you typically do for school events, work with your bookkeeper or boosters to cut one check to EdTA to keep it simple.
- Hold an end of year or semester celebration to hand out the new goodies when they are delivered to the school! Here is the Thespian store for graduation regalia. If you are trying to save money, cords can be found on Amazon too.
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Need Virginia Thespian Resources for your Administration?
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ADDITIONAL HOW TO RESOURCES:
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