Vermont Invite administrators. Word of mouth. At the end of each seminar, tell teachers that if they think the program is worthwhile, they need to share that enthusiasm with their central office people who struggle with the substitute issue. They are terrible for finding substitutes. Number of seminars on a given day.
Teachers begin to feel guilty about being out of their classrooms for more than three days.
We scheduled all of our seminars on the Thursday-Friday block breaks of the College, to free faculty to teach and to eliminate parking problems. B. We conflicted with parent-conference days in two districts, professional development days in another, and the regional Middle School Association conference. So, I'd strongly advise scanning school district calendars to avoid such problems, since none of our advisors knew of such matters. C. Depending on district and faculty reactions, I will try to schedule next year on varied days of the week. I do think finding subs on Fridays was a problem, although not mentioned during planning sessions.