Purpose
To enhance the growth, maturity, and experience of Franklin High School students
Core Values
Community – The Franklin community and our community within FHS shape who we are, and in return, we shape it.
Excellence – Employ a positive work ethic on our steady march toward excellence: students, parents, and staff included.
Enjoyment – Students should enjoy their band experience, their friends, their musical activities, and the processes involved with them.
Challenge – Create an environment that challenges students and promotes personal growth.
Versatility – Be well-rounded in what we do while maintaining a solid foundation in concert literature.
Stewardship – Be good stewards of our personal, material, and financial resources.
History – Old Traditions…New Beginnings. Value and reflect on our past while being innovative in new endeavors.
Inclusive – Be a “big tent” organization, serving students of various abilities and backgrounds.
Engagement – The wants and needs of our student, parent, and community stakeholders are important to us.
Advocacy – Be advocates for music education in neighborhood chats and discussions with decision-maker
Vivid Description
- We will have excellent student musicians; numerous mid-state and all-state players
- We will have concert groups perform at state and national conferences.
- Our marching band will place well at regional marching band contests and will perform in nationally recognized events.
- We will have nationally recognized percussion and guard programs.
- Our students will be great leaders, helping young members succeed and passing on knowledge to the next generation.
- Our alumni will be advocates for our program and music education.
- Our band parents will provide appropriate funding, advocacy, and support for the band’s development.
- Our staff will provide top-level instruction and be role models for our students.
- We will expect to be good and do what is necessary to achieve excellence.
- We will be intrinsically motivated.
- We will embrace competition, but not be consumed by it.
- We will recognize the excellence in other programs, learn from them, and show appreciation to them.
- All of this because WE ARE FRANKLIN!
