[Bestplus] attendance question

[Espindola, Annemarie]

Hi Ellen,
I concur with Carey,
You handled the situation in the best possible
manner for all concerned.
Great job!
Annemarie 


Annemarie Espindola
SABES Southeast
Bristol Community College
Room L-107
Fall River, MA 02720
(508) 678-2811 ext. 2782

-----Original Message-----
From: Carey Reid [mailto:Carey_Reid at worlded.org] 
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 9:53 AM
To: Ellenredmax at aol.com; Bestplus at lists.literacytent.org
Subject: Re: [Bestplus] attendance question

Hi Ellen,

The last word on this situation would be your regional curriculum and
assessment coordinator, but in my opinion you handled this situation
extremely well.  You took the following steps:

1.  Adapted for a legitimate transportation problem that affected a
large number of participants.
2.  Turned away those who could not possibly have been adequately
trained by the time they arrived.
3.  Tweaked the schedule to ensure that the training was completed in
the reduced timeframe you had to work with, essential to maintain
reliability.

Nice work.

Carey.



>>> <Ellenredmax at aol.com> 10/23/05 10:38 AM >>>
Last week I conducted a BEST Plus training that had 22 people
registered.  
It was to start at 9AM.  At 9AM there were 6 people in  the audience,
most of whom said that traffic was a nightmare on the Pike, Rt 3  and Rt
128. 
I was
torn whether to begin and possibly have to shut out more  than half the
class, or wait awhile to start.  I started at 9:18 with 13  people
present. 
By 9:38 3
more had arrived.  Between 9:45 and  10:10  3 more arrived, and where
turned away.
My question to all of you is:  should I have waited until 9:18  to
begin?  I felt badly for the people who arrived on time,  especially
since some of them told me they had to leave at the scheduled end  time
of 4PM.  On the other hand, the thought of not training BEST Plus
administrators who were needed by their programs made me uneasy.  As it
worked out, we finished by 4PM but I shortened the breaks to 10 minutes
to  do so.
Ellen
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