Recruitment of students allows for the program to grow and be diverse. Diversity helps strengthen the program. Here are the ABC’s of growing your STLP…
Below are ways to recruit:
- Announcements first weeks of school
- Be flexible with student schedules
- Continuously sign up students (open enrollment)
- Dance sponsored by STLP
- Everyone has a chance…Everyone is included
- Flyers around building
- Grade level talks
- Help in classrooms
- Interest levels shape the program
- Join Lego, robotics, programming, RCX or other related contests
- Kid-vine (let the kids tell the kids)
- Level Up and use gamification concepts to engage students
- Multi ways to meet
- Newspapers and posters
- Organize program early in year to capture students
- Parent recommendations
- Question students about their vision for STLP
- Recycle old devices
- Social Media – engage parents, community, students online
- Teacher recommendations and advisor/advisee groups
- Uniform T-shirts
- Very pretty certificates and logo lapel pins
- Web links to invite students
- Xtra attention, nametags, duties
- Yearly awards and rewards
- Zero in on technology literacies