Start Here: Caregivers/Parents – Wis. Interscholastic Speech & Dramatic Arts Assoc.

Your role as a caregiver (parent) to a student is so affirming to young people expressing themselves in speech, debate, theatre, and film activities! Here are the various ways caregivers engage with our association:

Advocacy

You can use your voice to promote establishment or retention of our activities in schools.

Advocacy Tools

Adjudicating

A number of our activities, such as Speech, rely on schools providing a certain number of adjudicators equivalent to the number of entries participating.

Learn about Adjudication Training & Certification

Observing

All our contests are open to the public, subject to space considerations — at various venues we use, we are subject to what classrooms/facilities are available, and what the safe operating capacity for those are. Some events, like our State Theatre Festival, charge money for venue admission passes, used to help subsidize usage of that space. You can review our overarching calendar, and/or visit the appropriate activity’s contests page in the “Activities & Contests” menu. Due to privacy and copyright laws, we ask that any guests to our contests NOT record any presentations (whether it’s your student or otherwise).