Quicklinks: Read Around the Planet website and CAPspace login.
Scheduling conflicts with partner
If for some unforeseen reason (i.e. snow day or unexpected illness), your connection cannot work on the date and time assigned to you, please work with your partner(s) to reschedule in March. Remember March is Reading Month! Your connection will be just as successful and fun on another date! Sometimes RAP connections happen all the way into May! Be flexible and patient with each other!
Snow Days, etc.
In addition, if there are weather related reasons you can’t connect on the day of the videoconference(s), please call all partners as soon possible to alert them. Remember that some students take buses a long distance to participate in the RAP videoconference. Don’t forget to contact your respective tech people to let them know if a videoconference has been cancelled.
Some coordinators get home phone numbers the night before a conference and let partners know there might be snow day. Just keep communicating with each other!!
If you can’t work it out….
If, after every effort, you cannot work it out with your partner school, then try the following in order:
1. Try a connection with a local school.
2. Contact your regional educational service agency for assistance in finding another partner.
3. Use the listservs and other resources to find another partner.
Take a deep breath.
As a coordinator, it can be frustrating to deal with rescheduling, technical difficulties, and other issues that cause problems for the connections. Take a deep breath. Remember the joy on the students’ faces from your last connection. It will all work out!!
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