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WHAT IS IN THIS ISSUE OF SWIFT *Copyright Compliance updates *Riggleman Award Recipient *Judging Requirement for State IE *E-mail Address Form Info *IHSSA Mentoring Info * Special Request Deadlines *On-Line Registration for IHSSA contests *State Debate Tournment Info And so much more! 2021 IHSSA Hall of Fame inductees Ms. Teresa Jackson, Fort Dodge & Ms. Linda Perrenoud, PCM
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Special thanks to Tina Bakehouse for her entertaining and insightful keynote. It is great to have someone like Tina to share her insights into the importance of what we are doing with our students each year. Plus, taking us back in time to her own IE Improv draw topics ... what fun that was! We benefited from hearing her experiences as a professional in the field. Also, Tina joined us for the entire convention! She was so impressed with your passion for this activity. We also thank Dr. James Weaver, from the National Federation of State High School Associations, for coming to our convention this year and speaking, especially addressing the very important topic of Copyright. Be sure to take the copyright course on the NFHS learning web site. You will find it most helpful. The importance of gaining proper rights for doing material is the RIGHT way to do material for contest. (Dr. Weaver speaking at convention on copyright compliance)
The IHSSA Hall of Fame members (pictured in this SWIFT) meet prior to the convention banquet. This group provides four scholarships to IHSSA students, and makes a huge difference with their continued support of our collective mission. They continue to judge, coach and even provide sessions at the coaches convention every year. Some provide invaluable support as mentors to younger coaches in their areas. One of the best meetings we have each year at the convention is the contest managers meeting. This meeting takes place on Friday morning and brings all of the contest managers together for a time of sharing and mentoring. Stacy Hansen, Coach at Large, very capably directs this meeting and covers what is important in running a successful contest. Later in the meeting the managers break out to IE and LG contest manager groups. Thanks to Robert Mitman for his excellent help in the breakout. If you are considering running a contest please know that guidance is there, and we provide a meeting and a book to help you through the successful experience of hosting a contest. So put October 2022 on your To-Do list for next year’s IHSSA Coaches Convention!
CONTEST NOTES SPECIAL REQUESTS By direction of the Executive Committee of the IHSSA, all special requests must be called in to the State Office by the dates listed below: District Large Group - January 6, 2022 State Large Group - January 26, 2022 District Individual Events - February 10, 2022 State Individual Events - March 2, 2022 Special requests after these deadlines will only be accepted on an emergency basis. Do not e-mail or FAX special requests in to the State Office, you must call for a special request. Do not call the contest manager for special requests in scheduling as they cannot accept any calls of this nature. ACT/SAT testing will not be accepted for a special request. This policy will be strictly enforced! ENTRY CARDS(NO ENTRY CARDS) All coaches should use the online program for registration there are NO ENTRY CARDS THIS YEAR. No more green or pink cards will be used. You still need to send a copy of your registration form to the District Contest site. CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS This is a rule change year and all new rules changes will be posted on the web site. The pages for your constitutions will be posted in NOVEMBER ON THE WEB SITE for you to copy for your constituiton Be sure to change the pages in your constitution and by-laws with the new pages that have rule changes on them. The rule changes that were voted on by the District Officers in June at their Annual meeting. BE SURE TO COPY THE NEW RULE PAGES FOR YOUR CONSTITUTION MENTORING PROGRAM The IHSSA would like to help any fellow coaches who believe they would benefit from a mentoring program. All you need to do is give the State Office a call and indicate that you would like to have a fellow coach as a mentor. The State Office will then contact a coach in your area and set up a mentoring program between the two coaches. If you would like to have more information on this subject, please call the IHSSA. JUDGING DIRECTIVE FROM THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Members of every district will be part of a program that provides the name of a judge for the State IE contest. Every school in the IHSSA that qualifies 5 or more entries for the IHSSA State IE contest on March 12, 2022 must provide the name of a certified judge on behalf of their school for that state contest site. This program will only be put into effect if the state contest managers in any district have trouble locating judges for that state contest. Then said judge from each school will be called upon to judge at the state contest. This is a constitutional item. Therefore, to participate in the IHSSA contest series all schools must follow this directive. This requirement is also in effect for the SW district in LG State contest. More information on this can be obtained by calling the State Office at 515-288-9741. CONTEST SITE ASSIGNMENTS A few schools have had questions regarding how the district site assignments are made for contest each year. Our major goal is to have district sites equal in size. Sometimes this will make the drive a bit further than we would like, however, we believe that it is important to give each student the same opportunity at every contest. Without doing this, some contest sites would have 60 schools and others would have only 15-20 schools. Contest site assignments will be made in early December after the membership closes on the st of that month. Contest locations will be posted on the web site after December 16th. Be sure to check the web site for your contest site location. That will be the only communication for your assignment for the IHSSA contest series. DO NOT REGISTER FOR CONTEST UNTIL YOUR SCHOOL IS ASSIGNED A SITE. IF YOU REGISTER EARLY YOU WILL HAVE ISSUES AND MAY HAVE TO REGISTER ALL OVER AGAIN!! 2021-2022 IHSSA MEMBERSHIP Check the web site (in November) to see if your membership has been paid for 2021-2022. Membership closes for the 2021-2022 contest year on December 1, 2021. If you do not see your school name then call the State Office ASAP!!! As of today, there are several schools that have been members that have not sent in their membership for 2021-2022. If you think you have paid check with your office that is to send in those payments..many times they are sitting in that office still. IHSSA QR Patch JUDGE CERTIFICATION MEETINGS Listed below are the Judge Certification Training sites as of this issue of SWIFT. We encourage all coaches to go to a certification meeting to become more aware of the rules and the new changes. It is important that we as coaches take a positive role in making our judging more effective for the youth of our state by going to a certification meeting as well as finding those individuals in our communities who would be outstanding judges for the IHSSA. At the first several meetings we have had great attendance! . VIRTUAL SESSION November 17, 7:00 p.m. virtual webinar for Experienced Judges recertification only (To attend this virtual session you must email the State Office and ask for the link for the session contact craig@ihssa.org by November 15th) NORTHWEST Storm Lake Moville NORTHEAST Waverly
Storm Lake High School Woodbury Central High School
Saturday, October 30, 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, November 3, 7:00 p.m.
Waverly-Shell Rock High School
Wednesday, November 3, 7:00 p.m.
IHSSA CALLBOARD Iowa Thespian State Conference November 12 & 13, 2021 UNI Contact mike.hunter@grinnell-k12.org Iowa State Thespians IHSSA State Debate Tournament DMACC, Ankeny Campus January 7 & 8, 2022 (Policy, L-D, Public Forum & Student Congress) DEBATE INFO: Debate Topics To get Policy, LD, & PF topics go to: www.speechanddebate.org (please remember we use the January PF and LD topics for the state tournament) STATE DEBATE ENTRY MATERIALS: State Debate entry materials and info will have a link on the web site. All entries for State Debate are done via another web area on the IHSSA web site. If you have questions or concerns please let us know. That link will be live on November 30th.. please watch the IHSSA web site for the link.
Remember -- Student Congress intent and at least two bills or resolutions must be in by November 15. The intent form is on the web site and will be sent from the State Office via mail, too. If you need more please go to the web site for another copy. Debate rules updates were sent to all IHSSA schools. Debate coaches be sure to get those rules from the IHSSA coach that receives the constitution in your school, or call and we can send those rules to you. State Debate will be on the campus of DMACC in Ankeny this year on
January 7-8, 2022 . Be sure to mark your calendars. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN BEING PART OF THE STATE TOURNAMENT THERE IS HELP. JUST CONTACT THE STATE OFFICE AND YOU WILL BE GIVEN SUPPORT.
Handouts from Coaches Convention and Powerpoint presentations On the front page of the IHSSA website is a link to the page that holds handouts and powerpoints to many of the presentations at the IHSSA Coaches Convention. This is a great resource for you as coaches. Check it out!!
A Call for all to participate in Student Congress from HOF Coach Bob Galligan Dear Speech Coach, I would like to share with you a thought about the exciting IHSSA Student Congress event. And, if you believe your time is already limited, you could pass the thought to your English staff, Talented and Gifted, Honors, or Advanced Placement instructors. Student Congress offers an exciting critical think activity that could easily fit into a classroom project. It develops the key skills of research, writing, speaking and defending one’s ideas. By passing along the IHSSA rules for Student Congress to the other instructors, they could prepare students for a fun learning experience that will not break the department budget. The students could research, write and submit two bills by November 15 to Bob Galligan at bobjgalligan@gmail.com for the January tournament. Then, by December 1, receive the full slate of bills for the tournament, and prepare to join in the congress discussion on January 7-8, 2022 at Des Moines Area Community College in Ankeny. Note you can still attend without submitting any bills. Should you, or any of your fellow instructors, have any questions as you prepare for the tournament, you can always e-mail Robert Galligan at bobjgalligan@gmail.com . I hope you will consider, and share if it works better for you, attending the IHSSA State Debate Tournament Friday and Saturday, January 78, 2022, at Des Moines Area Community College in Ankeny. Bob Galligan, IHSSA Hall of Fame Coach
RICHARD RIGGLEMAN AWARD The 26th Richard Riggleman Young Speech Coach Award was presented at the IHSSA Coaches Convention to Layne Sheetz. This $1,000 award, renewable for three years, is the first of its kind for the IHSSA. The Riggleman Young Speech Coach Award was established by Hall of Fame coach Richard Riggleman of Denison, who now lives in Iowa City. The IHSSA is grateful to Mr. Riggleman for his support of young IHSSA coaches. This award is now available to any 2nd or 3rd coach from the IHSSA. This year’s recipient, Layne, is in his second year of teaching / coaching at Cedar Rapids Washington High School. He is currently involved in IHSSA Large Group and Individual Events at Washington High School. Layne has been a very successful coach of CR Washington High School IHSSA students where last year he coached 6 groups with 4 making state and one named as an All-State performer. Layne stated in his application for the award, “One of the things I'm most proud of is the achievements of those students in the face of the pandemic as well as the newness of that program and my newness to coaching. Not only did Speech open the door to my teaching job but getting to coach a large group of students here at Washington has been formative to everything I do. I can now support students the way my teacher did back in 9th grade and make space in a school where they may not know where or how they fit.”
the Friday afternoon soda break was sponsored by Poetry Outloud
Iowa High School Musical Theatre Awards sponsored the Friday afternoon’Cracker Jack’ break
Ames Convention and Visitors Bureau provided the opening day giveaways.
Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union for their support of the entire IHSSA program. Please take a moment to be aware of those groups above who provided special services for the IHSSA Coaches Convention. Their support is the reason convention fees remain low. Thanks!!
CONTEST SITES FOR 2022 NORTHWEST Denison-Schleswig Manson NW Webster SC East
Spencer NORTHWEST Kuemper Catholic Sibley-Ocheydan Newell-Fonda Lawton-Bronson Woodbury Central
CONTEST SITES FOR 2022 LARGE GROUP SITES: DISTRICT SOUTHWEST NORTHEAST Centennial Cascade Clarke Waterloo West CB Abe Lincoln Hampton-Dumont LARGE GROUP SITES: STATE WDM Valley Decorah INDIVIDUAL EVENTS SITES: DISTRICT SOUTHWEST NORTHEAST Shenandoah Maquoketa Valley Earlham Union CAM Forest City Urbandale INDIVIDUAL EVENTS SITES: STATE ADM Clear Lake STATE DEBATE SITE DMACC, Ankeny
SOUTHEAST Monticello Ottumwa Montezuma Pella CR Kennedy SOUTHEAST Marshalltown North Scott Tri-County Central City Grinnell
***DO NOT REGISTER FOR CONTEST ONLINE UNTIL ASSIGNMENTS ARE POSTED IN DECEMBER FOR CONTEST SITES
Mike Haluska and Gary Zittergruen receive IHSSA Fine Arts Administrator of the Year. The Iowa High School Speech Association presented the IHSSA Fine Arts Administrator of the Year award on October 15, 2021 at the Gateway Hotel and Conference Center in Ames. The award was conceived in 2005 by the Executive Committee of the IHSSA. It is presented to a distinguished individual or individuals of statewide reputation and outstanding accomplishments. This is the highest honor the Iowa High School Speech Association may confer on an administrator. This year’s recipients are Mike Haluska, former Superintendent of Decorah schools, and Gary Zittergruen, former Superintendent of Benton Community schools. Both gentlemen are former IHSSA Executive Committee members. Mike Haluska has been involved with school activities in the Decorah community for many years. At this time, he has recently retired from his position as the Superintendent of Schools for the Decorah Community School District. He has been a passionate believer in the Arts and Activities at Decorah and a true support for all programs in his school. He has the belief that speech, music, drama, debate and all activities teach students valuable lessons they can learn no other way. From his nomination letter from IHSSA coaches in his district it was stated, “He advocates for students to be able to be involved in fine arts activities and supports us as educators and coaches. Specifically, he takes time after school hours to attend rehearsals, musicals, plays, concerts, and speech contests, driving across the state to attend events where Decorah students performed. He recognizes the importance of students experiencing education in the arts and makes SURE they have that opportunity.” Gary Zittergruen has been involved with school activities in Benton community for many years. At this time, he has recently retired from his position as the Superintendent of Schools for the Benton Community School District. He has been a passionate believer in the Arts and Activities at Benton Community and the IHSSA and a true support for all programs in his school. Mr. Zittergruen has made it his mission to ensure the students of Benton Community Schools and IHSSA will have access to quality, thriving activity programs for years to come. From his nomination letter from IHSSA coaches in his district it was stated, “ My own Superintendent would never ask how our students did in contest but there would always be an e-mail from Gary the Monday after contest telling us what a great job we did.”
IHSSA Hall of Fame at the 2022 IHSSA Coaches Convention
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This guide was provided to all coaches at the Spring meetings in 2017 by Ms Stacy Hansen IHSSA Coach At Large. Just a helpful reminder when you are speaking to your students about their events. Speech, Debate, Theatre & Academics Association Objectives: - Coordinate speech, debate and theatre programs at the state and national levels - Provide in-service training for high school directors - Create a network of educators who prepare students for contests and festivals - Share information, ideas, coaching techniques and contest management skills - Involve high school coaches in the topic selection process - Provide directors with professional development opportunities Membership Benefits: - Insurance coverage, including excess general liability up to $2 million - Subscription to High School Today, a monthly NFHS publication - Online access to archives of publication, The Forensic Educator - Member-only online access to 23 NFHS Speech, Debate and Theatre bookelts
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NFHSLearn.com | NFHS.org This is the flyer Dr. Weaver spoke about for membership in this association. Every IHSSA Contest Manager is given free membership into this group for hosting contest. The IHSSA encourages all to join for the liability insurance that is provided with this membership as well as many other benefits.
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IHSSA CONTEST ENTRY DEADLINES FOR 2022 CONTEST SEASON STATE DEBATE December 17, 2021 all forms due DISTRICT LARGE GROUP January 5, 2022 STATE LARGE GROUP immediately after district contest ALL-STATE FESTIVAL immediately after notification of performance DISTRICT IE February 9, 2022 STATE IE immediately after district contest Be sure to send this in. Last year we had several schools that did not send in their monies until we called. Just getting the PO does not send the money in. You must work with your business office on this issue. Please remember these deadline dates. Late entry penalties will be enforced per constitutional rules. All late entries will be placed at the end of the day! That will be the only time a late entry will be allowed to perform per directive of the Executive Committee. Do not be late!!!
STUDENT CONGRESS INTENT FORM Full size copy is on the web site. Please download and enter by November 15 for the State Debate Tournament this year. Please contact the State Office if you have any questions about entering State Debate or would like to try that activity. Let us know!
IHSSA Convention Team back row: Russ Adams, J’Kalein Madison, Kevin Hosbond, Marisssa Kuiken, and Craig Ihnen ,front row: Jacki Pleggenkuhle. Convention Chair
IHSSA E-MAIL ADDRESS BOOK PLEASE SEND THE INFO BELOW VIA E-MAIL TO THE IHSSA SCHOOL, LG COACH, IE COACH, DEBATE COACH e-mail addresses PLEASE SEND TO IHSSA BY NOVEMBER 15 We will print only those e-mails that we receive in the November issue of SWIFT Send to: craig@ihssa.org
Check out the new rule changes on the front page of the IHSSA web site! Some great new changes such as more entries for Short Film & Radio Broadcasting and new rules in Mime and OO. For Debate changes contact the office or check out the changes via this link: http://www.ihssa.org/rule2022.pdf
Also, in November the new pages for your constitution will be posted there for you to copy and put in your conCHECK TO MAKE SURE YOU HAVE PAID stitution. No more mailing of those pages!! FOR YOUR MEMBERSHIP ON THE FRONT PAGE OF THE WEB SITE!!
IHSSA INFO Web site
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craig@ihssa.org deb@ihssa.org phone # 515-288-9741(main) Toll Free (new) 888-985-6547 Direct Craig 515-401-1834 Direct Deb 515-401-1833 Address IHSSA 5000 Westown Parkway Suite 150 West Des Moines, Ia. 50266 Office hours 8 - 4:30 M-F Deb will take lunch from 12:00 -1:00 and Craig will take lunch from 1:00 - 2:00.
Card Stock There are NO Green or Pink cards to be used for contest this year. Just like last year all you have to do to enter contest is fill out the online form send a copy of that to the contest manager and send your payment to us and you are entered.
Permission to do Material or Music in all IHSSA events Please remember you must have permission to do ANY MATERIAL that you use for contest events. We now have agreements with many companies to use their materials for IHSSA contest. For example, if you use some recorded music for background in Mime or One Act, unless it is ASCAP music or you have purchased the BMI license, you have to receive permission to use it. If you are using music for short film or tv news you must get rights from the copyright holder and get synchronization rights for that song or songs. If you are reading an interp selection from a book you must receive permission to read that selection or cutting at the contest. In Musical Theatre you cannot do cuttings unless you have permission to do so. You can NEVER cut or rearrange material without receiving permission or using material from the companies we have agreements with. Receiving permission to perform at contest is just that. It does not cover performing for other events. Also, NEVER allow contest selections to be placed on YouTube or the internet. YOU DO NOT HAVE PERMISSION TO DO THAT! It is the responsibility of the local school to secure all performance rights for contest selections. Be sure you have permission to do material before you start a selection for contest. The IHSSA will NOT support any school that does not secure performance rights for selections at contest. Do not put your school district in financial danger by not finding the rights to perform material. Please remember all of your titles are posted on the web and those groups will see what you are doing. Get the proper rights to do material for contest. You as a coach/school must do this! PERFORMANCE RIGHTS FOR MUSCIAL THEATRE AND OTHER AREAS USING SHEET MUSIC AND NOT TRW OR MTI From Dr. James Weaver of the NFHS If you are wanting to perform a work of music for a contest you will need to follow the guide below: If you are using sheet music from.... ASCAP – With a national agreement for high schools you can perform any piece in the ASCAP catalog and not have to write for permission. BMI – Buy the BMI high school license for Secondary Schools (on IHSSA web site) you can do any song from the BMI catalog for contest without asking permission to perform. This also good for background music. SESAC – Must request and receive permission to perform. A fee might be required. With all of these Performing Rights Organization permissions you cannot make an arrangement without the proper permission from the copyright owner. However, you may make cuts for timing purposes only, but the piece must remain in the same order and the cut must keep the integrity of the musical work.