I will have to say last week was a success. Of the 28 classes that were scheduled, we actually saw 27 of those classes. One class had to reschedule due to a 5th block assembly. That means we pumped about 810 students through the library last week. Yikes!
I believe flipping the policies to avoid a boring lecture worked. Over the last 2 weeks, we had only 1 teacher who didn't review the book and give out the brochures to any of her classes, and then we had 1 teacher who didn't flip the lesson for 3 of her classes and did for the other 3. In order to find out if the students had actually reviewed the eBook, I had to resort to asking them. 3 classes gave me the blank stare which led me to realize no flipping had taken place, but the other 3 had a spark of recognition in their eyes when I asked. I found that the students were a pretty good indicator. I would have asked the teacher straight out, which was our tactic with the others, but this teacher arrived 5 minutes after her students did.
This week we have 4 more Freshman classes, and then it is on to the next set of tasks...We have some individual classes coming up along with helping teachers upload grades for progress reports. In addition, we were approached by one of our Design Coaches to hold a Google Docs and Diigo training class. :)
On a side note, Karen did a little research and found out that Wednesday, Sept. 19th, is National talk-like-a-pirate day. So we are going to extend the costumes one more day and pass out some of the "pirate loot" we gave to the Freshman classes. Never a dull moment!
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