The last thing most teachers want to do is increase the number of days they need to stay at work, after work. After all, there are staff meetings, grade-level meetings, committee meetings, curriculum meetings, data meetings, parent meetings, etc. that already occur throughout the school year. Not to mention all of the days teachers need to stay late to get their “regular” work done for a wide variety of reasons – educators, you know what I’m talking about.
However, I am writing this article to convince you that there is at least one very good reason for teachers to get excited about writing in their calendar “stay after school today”. This reason benefits you, your students, your school community, and it could even benefit the region you live in. What mythical gobbledygook am I referring to?
Oh, it ain’t mythical gobbledygook, let me assure you. It is the…
…AFTERSCHOOL CLUB.
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Thom R. Smith 