8. Besides the instructor responsibilities for my particular team, what are my co-op responsibilities?
o Second co-op responsibility
Some examples include: set up, clean up, lunch duties, or assisting in the drama programs (There are approximately 35 different choices).
o Be on site
Parents of morning program children are expected to be on the premises at all "co-op" times (10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon), and will be called on in case of sickness or discipline needs, to help with their own children. If you need to leave the building due to an emergency, please place another Explorers parent in charge of your child, and let your Team Leader and your children's instructors know of your absence and who the parent in charge will be. Please record this information on the white board in the hospitality room.
o Wear your name tag
On our first day back at Explorers, you will find a name tag in your mailbox. We ask EVERYONE to use nametags, including the co-op and professional instructors! Students' nametags will be distributed at the beginning of the second hour class each week (or 1st hour if it is a co-op class). Using nametags helps us all to orient faster, ensures smooth transitions between classes, and, most important, makes it possible to help lost or wandering children!
o Communicate well!
There are two sources of essential information at Explorers, and they both come over email! If you do not currently have email, we strongly encourage you to get it! Occasionally exceptions are made to distribute hard copies of emails to members. However, often by the time you receive this information, it would be too late.
The first is the weekly emailed newsletter, known as the ENN - (Explorers News Network). The ENN will be e-mailed to you the weekend prior to Explorers of each week. The newsletter is only news related to participation in the program. Examples of appropriate ENN items would be: an extra field trip you're planning for your history class, info on the geography fair which your class is entering, or "bring roller blades to gym next week. Please place interesting fliers/announcements for other moms (e.g.. your church's weekly Bible study, books you're selling, group subscriptions to publications that you'd like to organize, etc.) in the Hospitality Area, in the members' "mailboxes" or use the Explorers yahoo group. If you have items to put in this newsletter, please put them in Kelli Sparrow's mailbox or send them in writing or via email to Kelli by Friday of each week. We are NOT to use the Explorers email list for bulk solicitation unrelated to Explorers, and do NOT pass along the list to others who would use it for this purpose.
Other important communications come in emails directly from the administrator. She will send out reminders of important dates, sign up lists, and room changes, for example. Please read these emails, so that we can all be "on the same page" when it comes to Explorers!