See that smile on Lauren's face? It's because she is seeing God answer your prayers! Here are some of the things she has shared...1) All three computers at the tutoring center are now running Word and Excel. This means the kids can chart the data they've been gathering this week, mostly related to how long their homemade parachutes and helicopters stay in the air. The older classes are also using Word to type up their writing assignments each day.
2) The temperature in the back classroom has stayed reasonable, despite some hot afternoons. The new strategy has been to run the AC and the fan together, which seems to keep the cool air circulating.
3) The all-day prep session on Friday paid off enormously. Our interns started the week with a more energy and confidence, despite two of them getting sick over the weekend. Their day is ending around 4pm now instead of five, and they haven't needed to bring work home in the evenings.
4) The team also got a big boost this week from fourteen classroom assistants and one "creative project specialist,"a veteran preschool teacher whose sons graduated from Adventures Ahead years ago. Kathy has been supervising messy endeavors like painting propellors, where her years of experience make a huge difference. The classroom assistants are a high school mission team from Tucson assigned to us by the Center for Student Mission. This wonderful organization will send us teams each week for the rest of the summer. We were a little nervous about adding so many extra bodies to an already tight space. But the added attention and supervision they bring has been transformative. Our teachers feel liberated from the need to constantly discipline and are gladly investing more of their energy in actual teaching.
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