The Winning Ways Stories category collects stories shared by callers and dancers who have tried something out and are willing to share their experience for the benefit of others. When a story contains an especially outstanding idea, we highlight it separately as an “idea” article, but reading the complete story gives you the context in which the idea was tried.
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List of Article Titles (alphabetical order) - “Selling” Square Dancing To New People
- 174 Prospecting Ideas
- 2019 IAGSDC Survey Results
- 2024-2025 Caller Schools
- 64th US National Keynote by Ted Lizotte and Paul Cote
- 66th US National Keynote by Eric Henerlau
- A Few Helpful Tips & Ideas from EDSARDA
- A Step in Time – The American Square Dance (book)
- ACC Reference Material List
- Accelerated Learning Program for Squares (ALPS)
- Accelerated New Dancer Class
- Advertising Brochure Stressing Health Benefits
- Alberta Chatter Newsletter
- All About Modules (book)
- all8.com
- Alternate Lessons Systems Brochure
- Amateur Caller Night
- American Square Dance Magazine
- ANSSRDT Newsletter
- Approaching Malls With Vacant Storefronts for Demo Spaces
- ARTS Letter Containing Promotional Materials (Aug 2017)
- As I Saw It – Bob Osgood (book)
- Audacity Audio Editor and Recorder Program
- Bad Advanced Choreography
- BC Westsyde Squares Recruits 29 New Dancers
- Becoming A Square Dance Caller 4th Edition (Book)
- Beginner Dance Party Leaders Seminar – Presentations from 2014
- Behind The Mike Newsletter
- Bob Brundage Interviews
- Breaking Bread and Building Connections
- British Columbia Library of Promotional Materials
- Buddy Weaver Square Dance Music Podcast
- Building For Tomorrow
- Buy Advertising Space In Your Local Mall
- Cal Campbell’s Singing Call Collection
- Cal Campbell’s Square Dance Potpourri Page
- Call Analysis Sheets
- Call Evolution
- Call Me Crazy (Book)
- Callarama
- Caller Drill Program
- Caller Mentoring Guidelines
- Caller School In a Box
- Caller Training Handouts
- Caller Training Materials
- Caller Tutorial and Discussion Sessions
- Caller’s Help Music Management Program
- Caller’s Service and Supply
- CALLERLAB 2015 Brainstorming Session
- CALLERLAB 2021 Keynote Address by Mike Seastrom
- CALLERLAB Board Of Governors (current)
- CALLERLAB Certified Square Dance Teacher (CSDT) Program
- CALLERLAB Code Of Ethics
- CALLERLAB Committees
- CALLERLAB Community Dance Resources
- CALLERLAB Convention Audio Recordings (as of Oct 31, 2018)
- CALLERLAB Convention History
- CALLERLAB Convention Video Recordings (as of Aug 18, 2022)
- CALLERLAB Foundation
- CALLERLAB Membership Information
- CALLERLAB Online Teaching Resource
- CALLERLAB Past Chairs
- CALLERLAB Program Documents
- CALLERLAB Published Document Register
- CALLERLAB Square Dance Marketing Manual
- Callers In Schools Handbook (CISH)
- CallerToolBox
- Calling for Gay Square Dance Groups
- Calling For Modern Square Dancing
- Ceder Square Dance System (CSDS)
- ceder.net
- Checker Cheats
- Choreo Breakdown Note Service
- Christy Lane’s Square Dancing Today Collection
- Clark Baker Discusses Hexagon Dancing
- Clark Baker on Gimmicks
- Class In 3 Days – Four Corners Area
- Club For Classes – Only
- Collection Of Marketing and Recruiting Articles
- Collections Of Images Related to Square Dancing
- Community Dance / Party Night Resources
- Community Dance Journals
- Community/Party Dance Teaching Videos
- Condensed Teaching Order
- Controlling Choreography With Relationships
- Corona Learning Assistance Seminar Series (CLASS)
- Country Dance and Song Society (CDSS)
- Cuesta Squares: A Social Success
- Dancing can reverse the signs of aging in the brain
- Dancing For Busy People
- Dancing For Your Health
- Dancing In A Social Club
- Dancing In Schools (Cogan Station, PA)
- Dancing Makes You Smarter
- Dave Wilson’s Ocean Wave Resolution Method
- Definitions for partially inclusive dancing – Dancing for Everybody
- Diagrams and Definitions Book Set
- Digital Input Chart for Hilton Sound Systems
- Digital Music Information (from Barry Johnson)
- Digital Music Presentation (Handout)
- Don Beck Discusses Smooth Dancing
- Don Beck’s Video Potpourri
- dosado.com
- Dottie Welch’s Singing Call Figure Collection
- Duke City Singles and Doubles – a Revival Story
- Ed Foote – All Things Considered
- Education Recordings (and documents) About Leadership
- Education Recordings About Games and Gimmicks
- Education Recordings About Modules
- Education Recordings About Singing Calls
- Education Recordings About Voice
- Education Recordings Of Arden Hopkin Voice Sessions
- Education Recordings On Sociability
- Education Recordings on Styling
- Effects of Cognitive Leisure Activity on Cognition in Mild Cognitive Impairment: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial
- Enticing New Callers
- Experience Using the Nest System in Calgary, Alberta
- Experimental Lesson Systems
- Extended But Not Extreme – Plus
- Facebook Posts Pay Off
- Facebook Stories About Using Social (formerly Sustainable) Square Dance (SSD)
- Fast Track To Mainstream In Iowa
- Finding Music
- First Friday Fun Fest Story
- Flash Cards for MS Calls Not in SSD
- Flash Cards for Plus Calls
- Flash Cards for SSD Calls
- Formation to Formation
- Free Square Dance Artwork
- Fun Nights – Introduce Square Dancing
- GCA Callsheet
- Gnat Boxers (Wooster, Ohio) New Class
- GoldWave Music Editing Software
- Growth In Dallas/Ft. Worth
- Growth Thru Classes – Greenville, PA
- Happy Time Squares, Lawrence KS
- Health Benefits Article Posted by Ontario Square & Round Dance Federation
- Health Plan Newsletter Extols Square Dancing
- Hilton Audio
- Hilton Equipment Repair Service
- Hilton Multiple Speaker Hookup Information
- Hints For Dancing Load The Boat
- Hints For Dancing Peel Off
- Hints For Dancing Spin Chain and Exchange the Gears
- Hints For Dancing Wheel Thru
- History of CALLERLAB Board Of Governors Since 1975
- History Of Computer Choreography Programs
- Hooking Up Williams Hearing Assist to Hilton Equipment
- Hookup Chart for Zoom Calling
- How Rounds Are Scheduled Can Be Important
- IAGSDC History Wiki
- Ian Henzel Plan For Square Dance Recruitment
- Ideas For Club Activities From Social Connections Contest #1
- Ideas for Creating Social Connections
- Ideas For Dances From Social Connections Contest #1
- Ideas For Group/Club Interaction From Social Connections Contest #1
- Ideas From Social Connections Contest #1
- Include Non-Dancer Events At Festivals and Conventions
- Innovative Program For New Dancers Revives Dying Club
- Interview Talking Points
- Interviews With Callers
- Introduction To Mental Image Choreography
- Introduction to Social Media
- It’s Not Square To Dance
- Jack Lasry’s Notes For Callers
- Jeff Priest’s Singing Call Figures for Teaching
- Just Another Square Dance Caller (Book)
- Keep Those New Dancers
- Keith Rubow’s Dance Recordings Site
- Kip Garvey Discusses Sequence and Relationship
- Large Event Planning
- Larkspur Tam Twirlers – Invite Public
- Leadership Seminar
- Learning To Dance Without a Caller
- Lee Kopman on the Phil Donahue Show
- List of CALLERLAB Accredited Caller Coaches
- List of Sound Equipment For Square Dancing (CDLS 2017 Handout)
- Live Recordings of Legends Calling
- Lloyd Shaw Foundation
- Long Distance Calling
- Lost Square Procedure
- Lots Of Stuff About Modules
- Managing Dances With SqView
- Marketing On A Shoestring Budget
- MCASD Promotion and Recruitment Campaign
- MCASD Toolbox Collection
- Media Articles on Square Dancing
- Media Reports on Health Benefits of Dancing
- Mental Image Calling (Ackerman & French)
- Mental Image Calling Materials
- Mikeside Management Caller Note Service
- Milestone Award Winners
- Minnesota Promotional Website
- Morrison Grand Squares – Zero to 60 in Two Years
- Mountaineers 2017 Class
- Moving and Grooving Square Dance CDs for Teachers
- MS Teaching Plan from Daryl Clendenin
- Multi-Cycle Program X Plan from Gardner Patton
- Multi-Cycle Success
- Multi-Cycle Teaching Method
- musicforcallers.com
- New Class Promotion, South Milwaukee, WI
- New Dancer Class (Washington State)
- New Dancer Coordinator
- New Dancer Marketing Website with Free Promotional Videos
- New Dancer Promotion
- New Dancers – (Crosstrailers – Warren, OH)
- New Dancers From The Home Schooling Community
- Newbie Callers Zoom Discussions
- News ‘N Notes Caller Note Service
- News ‘N Notes Caller Note Service (Advanced)
- Newspaper Article: Don’t be a square – dance!
- NNJSDA Keynote Addresses From Roy and Betsy Gotta
- No Experience Dance at a Local YMCA
- No Experience Necessary Dances
- North Shore Squares – Zero to 50 in 18 Months
- Notes For European Callers Note Service
- Novelties Section of CALLERLAB Online Teaching Resource
- Nuts And Bolts (book)
- Ocean Wave Resolves From Cal Campbell
- Ohio – Class Promotion
- Operation Frontier – 2015, Milford, OH
- Otonabee Squares – Success Starting a New Club (2009)
- Out Of Sight (book)
- Participating In CALLERLAB – Why and How
- Partner Resource
- PINTEREST Page With Square Dance Material
- Planning To Implement SSD
- Promotional Ideas From the Johnny Appleseed Club (Mansfield, OH)
- Promotional Materials
- Promotional Video – This Is Modern Pattern Dancing
- Promotional Video for Do Si Squares in Indiana
- Promotional Video from California
- Promotional Video From Maine
- Promotional Video from Minnesota
- Promotional Video Showing Square Dancing and Others
- Pump Toppers
- QR Codes
- Recruit Exchange Students
- Recruiting Old & New Dancers (Belles and Beaus-Pomeroy, OH)
- Recruiting Success – New Zealand
- Recruiting Success – Square Benders (2002)
- Recruitment
- Relationship Sight Calling Simplified
- Restructuring El Camino Reelers Classes
- Rocky Mountain Recruiting Plan
- Rocky’s Success Story
- Round Dance Cueing For Callers
- Rutgers Promenaders Rebuild
- Saddlebrook Square Dance Teaching Videos
- Sample Party Night Contract
- Sample Radio Ads From Montana
- Saturday Classes (Martinez, CA)
- Save Square Dancing With SSD
- Script For an Intro Night
- Sd – A Square Dance Caller’s Helper
- Seating Can Change The Social Atmosphere of a Dance
- Sets In Order (SIO) Yearbooks
- Sets In Order Archive
- Sight And Module Resolution Systems Document
- Signs Speak Volumes
- Small Town Club Has 5 Squares of Beginners
- So You Want To Be A Caller
- Social Square Dance (SSD / Sustainable SD / Club50) Teaching Videos
- Social Square Dance (SSD) Alphabetical Call List
- Social Square Dance (SSD) Teaching Guide
- Social Square Dance (SSD), an Introduction and Overview by Barry Johnson
- Some Random Stuff by Don Beck
- Sounding Like A Caller
- Square Dance Calling Makes a Comeback in Chicago
- Square Dance Foundation of New England
- Square Dance Hall Of Fame
- Square Dance History Channels on YouTube
- Square Dance History Project
- Square Dance Modules Discussion Forum
- Square Dance Rotation Program (SQROT)
- Square Dance Video – Background
- Square Dance Video – Public TV – California
- Square Dance Video Infomercial – MN
- Square Dancing And Its Relation To Mathematics
- Square Dancing in Schools – Teacher Workshop – CA
- Squared Up Audio – Hilton Equipment Repair
- squaredancetech.com
- Squaring Up: A Film About Square Dancing
- SqView Installation and Use
- SqView Music Management Program
- SqView Presentation at CALLERLAB 2019
- SSD Documentation and Support Materials
- SSD FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
- SSD In A Nutshell
- SSD, MS, & Plus Call Booklets from North Shore Squares
- Stages Document from Women In Calling Committee
- Standard Contract for a Calling Date
- Step By Step Through Modern Square Dance History (book)
- Struggling Up The Cliff (on becoming a caller)
- Success Story Growing Classes
- Success Strategy – Brecksville Squares (Ohio)
- Success Strategy – Broken Wheel Squares (Kirtland, OH)
- Success Using Fast Track in Edmonton, Alberta
- Successful Experiences using the 12 Week Condensed Teaching Method
- Taminations
- Teaching an SSD Class
- Teaching Beginners on Zoom
- Teaching New Dancers (eBook)
- Teaching Order Design Principles
- Teaching Orders
- Teaching Styling
- Tech Squares Call Definitions
- Technical Zeros
- Teen Dancing (Petaluma, CA)
- The How & Why of New Basics
- The Mainstream Caller’s Notebook (book)
- This Is Your Brain On Dancing
- Three Promotional Videos From Sweden
- Tim Marriner’s Caller Education Materials
- Tim Marriner’s Caller Education Page (obsolete)
- Timberline Toppers’ Recruiting Plan
- Tony Parkes On The History of Square Dancing
- TV Publicity
- TV Video Promoting Square Dancing
- Two Couple Calling For New Callers
- Two-Couple Teaching and Dancing Recordings
- Two-Person (Minimal Phantoms) Square Dancing
- United Square Dancers of America (USDA)
- USDA COVID-19 Letter
- USDA News
- Using Custom Signature Blocks in eMails
- Using Dixie Grand
- Using Hearing Assist System To Slave One Amp To Another (Handout)
- Using Sicilian Circles for Square Dancing
- Using Square Dancing For Rehab (2004)
- Using The 12 Session Twice Per Week Program in Red Deer, Alberta
- Using Yard Signs to Advertise
- Using Yard Signs to Promote Square Dancing
- Valley Trailers
- Village Swingers Club New Recruiting
- Virtual Square Dances and Recordings
- Visits With the Legends
- WA State Dance – 25 Years
- Want To Develop Your Dancing Skill? Start A Club!
- Welcoming Dance Environment Documentation
- West Coast Square Dancing Flexible Learning Program
- What Did You Say?
- What Is CALLERLAB?
- WheresTheDance.com
- Why We Should Care About On-Line Marketing
- Winning Ways (2003/2009/2018) Sage Swingers
- Women In Calling (WIC) Music List
- Yak Stack Speaker Hook Up Chart
- Yak Stack Speakers
- you2candance.com
- Youth Dancing
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List of Article Titles (reverse date order)
- Planning To Implement SSD
- Save Square Dancing With SSD
- Two-Person (Minimal Phantoms) Square Dancing
- Want To Develop Your Dancing Skill? Start A Club!
- Cuesta Squares: A Social Success
- Sample Radio Ads From Montana
- Facebook Stories About Using Social (formerly Sustainable) Square Dance (SSD)
- Small Town Club Has 5 Squares of Beginners
- Square Dance Calling Makes a Comeback in Chicago
- West Coast Square Dancing Flexible Learning Program
- North Shore Squares – Zero to 50 in 18 Months
- No Experience Dance at a Local YMCA
- Teaching an SSD Class
- Successful Experiences using the 12 Week Condensed Teaching Method
- Winning Ways (2003/2009/2018) Sage Swingers
- Restructuring El Camino Reelers Classes
- Innovative Program For New Dancers Revives Dying Club
- BC Westsyde Squares Recruits 29 New Dancers
- Mountaineers 2017 Class
- Morrison Grand Squares – Zero to 60 in Two Years
- Happy Time Squares, Lawrence KS
- Duke City Singles and Doubles – a Revival Story
- Enticing New Callers
- Using Yard Signs to Promote Square Dancing
- Timberline Toppers’ Recruiting Plan
- Rocky’s Success Story
- Using The 12 Session Twice Per Week Program in Red Deer, Alberta
- Success Using Fast Track in Edmonton, Alberta
- Experience Using the Nest System in Calgary, Alberta
- Success Story Growing Classes
- Rutgers Promenaders Rebuild
- No Experience Necessary Dances
- Using Yard Signs to Advertise
- Operation Frontier – 2015, Milford, OH
- Village Swingers Club New Recruiting
- Otonabee Squares – Success Starting a New Club (2009)
- New Dancer Promotion
- Ohio – Class Promotion
- Saturday Classes (Martinez, CA)
- New Dancer Class (Washington State)
- Accelerated Learning Program for Squares (ALPS)
- Fast Track To Mainstream In Iowa
- Accelerated New Dancer Class
- Square Dance Video – Public TV – California
- Square Dancing in Schools – Teacher Workshop – CA
- Square Dance Video – Background
- Growth Thru Classes – Greenville, PA
- WA State Dance – 25 Years
- Recruiting Success – New Zealand
- New Dancers – (Crosstrailers – Warren, OH)
- Club For Classes – Only
- Teen Dancing (Petaluma, CA)
- Square Dance Video Infomercial – MN
- Class In 3 Days – Four Corners Area
- Success Strategy – Brecksville Squares (Ohio)
- Using Square Dancing For Rehab (2004)
- Success Strategy – Broken Wheel Squares (Kirtland, OH)
- Dancing In Schools (Cogan Station, PA)
- Larkspur Tam Twirlers – Invite Public
- Recruiting Old & New Dancers (Belles and Beaus-Pomeroy, OH)
- Leadership Seminar
- TV Publicity
- Multi-Cycle Success
- Recruiting Success – Square Benders (2002)
- Multi-Cycle Teaching Method
- Dancing In A Social Club
- Growth In Dallas/Ft. Worth
- Youth Dancing
- New Class Promotion, South Milwaukee, WI
- Valley Trailers
- Fun Nights – Introduce Square Dancing
- Gnat Boxers (Wooster, Ohio) New Class
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