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Ignite Response to your Conducting
Table of Contents
Front Matter      
Workshops
1. Who is IR for? 
2. How This Book is Organized: so you can easily find what you what
3. How to Use this Book to Create significant, lasting improvement at your
    Next Rehearsal
​4. Table of Contents: You'll be amazed! It's everything you want to know!
Book 1
The IgniteResponse Approach to Making Remarkable Music
Workshops
1. What is the IgniteResponse Approach?
2. Kwik Start: At your very next rehearsal: Prove that IgniteResponse will
    Work for You
3. What incredible Results and Benefits will you create using the
    IgniteResponse/Learner-Centered approach?
4. Why I Wrote This Book
5. My promise to you: A Guarantee                        
Book 2 
Learner Centered Education: the key to creating enough rehearsal time, and lasting musical & personal growth 
Workshops
1. Igniting Ourselves: The most important thing of all!
2. The Learner-Centered approach to rehearsing: Our Students are Our New
​    Instruments
3. Experience is more importance than Information
4. Highly effective Verbal and Nonverbal Communication
Book 3
​Preparing to Rehearse

3.Workshops

1. Score Study is Rehearsal Planning
2. Section Leaders Double what You Get Done in Rehearsals
3. Teaching your Students to Conduct; The Secret to: Watching, Following your Gestures, and Marking their Music

Book 4
Veteran Teachers Top Workshop Requests: The "Big Seven"
Workshops
1. Engagement, including Keeping Everyone Engaged while working with only one  section.
2. The Power of Posture
3. Watching: Us Watching Them
4. Watching: Them Watching Us
5. Following our Gestures
6. Marking the Music
7. No Talking While Rehearsing
Book 5
​Rehearsal Stages
Workshops
Stage 1: Before They Come In
Stage 2: The First 8 Minutes
Stage 3: The Conscious Warmup
Stage 4: Woodshedding (Transition from Warmup and Kicking off Woodshedding; Break it Down and Build it Up; Slow and Enforce; Drill and Persevere)
​Stage 5: The Last 8 Minutes: Show Time!
Book 6
Igniting Specific Responses
​Workshops
1. Rhythm-Related 
2. Tempo-Related
3. Dynamics-Related
4. Expression-Related
Book 7
Special Book for Student, New, and Early Career Teachers
Workshops
1. Think "Engagement" more than "down-left-right-up"
2. Your Students are your new instruments
3. RLYAP: Rehearse like you practice

Book 8
Phasing it In
Workshops
1. Principals of Phasing it in
2. Short Range Phasing it in planning
3. Longer Range Phasing it in planning
For Fuller Descriptions of each Book:
How Ignite Response is Organized
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