Our volunteer team is working through several sessions of training focusing on effectively teaching large groups of children.  In our first session we talked about how we must ENGAGE the kids we lead.  I made up a pretty cheesy acronym to help remember what that looks like: 1.  Exciting.  Kids are repelled by boring.  If we want kids to retain anything...

This series is focusing on different personalities we encounter with the volunteers on our team.  Yesterday we talked about the needy volunteer.  Today, we will discuss the fun volunteer. Description: –          This volunteer is the life of the party.  He  is all about the fun.  Kids love him and you often see 5 or 6 hanging off of him at...

I recently blogged about my passion for having two permanent adults in a room and moving away from our dependence on rotating, monthly teachers.  You can read that here. Now comes the hard part.  My goal is to have 2-3 weekly volunteers in each classroom by the fall.  We have to replace all of those rotating spots with weekly people.    That is not...