How to Make Sure Your Classes Run!

Unfortunately, I'm sure at least a few of you have had a class cancelled in the last few months that you really wanted to teach. This happens for a number of reasons, sometimes having to do with schedule popularity, number of available classes, the fluctuations of the testing seasons, and so on. But no one wants to commit to a class and then suddenly not have the work.

So how can we avoid these situations?

The answer is to get more students in our classes. I spoke to some of the academic leadership in the region, and came up with a policy that I believe benefits everyone:

We look at class counts up to a month in advance, and can ‘red flag’ classes that look like they may not run. At that point, we contact you teachers and say ‘This class is looking like it might not run. We need your help to make it work.’ We then ask for your assistance in a variety of activities (campus activity, call campaigns, class announcements, marketing events, etc.) to focus on getting enrollments into your particular class. To my mind, this accomplishes several things.

1) You get more work, which everybody almost always wants.
2) The full-time staff can keep our focus on these red-flag classes and help make sure they run.
3) Ideally, we cancel fewer classes, run bigger classes, and everyone gets to Elite faster and makes more $$!
4) Even if a class does end up getting cancelled, we know we did everything we could to help it run, and you guys have a greater understanding of why the class had to be cancelled.

So starting immediately, anyone who is staffed on a class that looks like it may be cancelled will be contacted and asked to help out with initiatives to fill the class in whatever capacity he or she wishes. If for whatever reason you can't help out on a particular class, that's OK, but really, you benefit directly from the help you'd be providing, and the work is extremely flexible, so I don't forsee that being a big problem for most of you.

As always, reach out to me if you have any questions.