Group Check
In 2002, a Connecticut high school teacher taught me be a system to make sure that all participants were present for scheduled departures throughout the field study. After only a few days I had become very weary of counting. The system about to be described worked flawlessly for over three weeks until we got to the Sinopec complex outside of Beijing. I called for a group check and there was no response which meant everyone was present. Our bus had moved about 100 feet when a chorus of "stop" from the back of the bus let me know clearly that someone was missing. It was the teacher who provided me with the flawless strategy. He had made a stop at the four star Chinese-style restroom!
I will provide an advance time for assembly in the hotel lobby for departures and for other events where you may have some free time before a scheduled departure. Be sure to let the person who will be looking for you know where you are. We will do group checks frequently. Here is how the system works. Below is the list for all participants in each group in alphabetical order. Each participant looks for the next person on the alphabet list. For the sister school delegation, the last person on the list Zytka, looks for the first person, Demkiw. For the principal shadowing and teacher Confucian delegation, the last person on the list, White, looks for the first person, Andrews. In the highly unlikely event a person is not with the group for medical or other reasons, you will need to skip that person and look for the next person in the alphabet. When the two groups merge at the end of the trip, it will become essential to have this system working. We do not need to keep track of Peng and Gregg because nothing will move without them.
Group Checklist: Sister School Delegation, April 11-21
Demkiw
Fers
Gargano
Green
Hiruo
Izzo
Johnson
Leclerc
Lefebvre
Liu
Mullady, L.
Mullady, W.
Obieglo, K
Obieglo, T
Parks
Parvis
Sumby
Sutman
Zytka
Group Checklist: Principal Shadowing and Teacher Confucian, April 8-21
Andrews
Blake
Boehme
Buckley
Crossman
Dellinger
Faiman
Giannini
Glendening
Griffin
Homrok
Marvin
Pear
Robertson
Burke
Reynolds
Smith
Veronesi
White
I will provide an advance time for assembly in the hotel lobby for departures and for other events where you may have some free time before a scheduled departure. Be sure to let the person who will be looking for you know where you are. We will do group checks frequently. Here is how the system works. Below is the list for all participants in each group in alphabetical order. Each participant looks for the next person on the alphabet list. For the sister school delegation, the last person on the list Zytka, looks for the first person, Demkiw. For the principal shadowing and teacher Confucian delegation, the last person on the list, White, looks for the first person, Andrews. In the highly unlikely event a person is not with the group for medical or other reasons, you will need to skip that person and look for the next person in the alphabet. When the two groups merge at the end of the trip, it will become essential to have this system working. We do not need to keep track of Peng and Gregg because nothing will move without them.
Group Checklist: Sister School Delegation, April 11-21
Demkiw
Fers
Gargano
Green
Hiruo
Izzo
Johnson
Leclerc
Lefebvre
Liu
Mullady, L.
Mullady, W.
Obieglo, K
Obieglo, T
Parks
Parvis
Sumby
Sutman
Zytka
Group Checklist: Principal Shadowing and Teacher Confucian, April 8-21
Andrews
Blake
Boehme
Buckley
Crossman
Dellinger
Faiman
Giannini
Glendening
Griffin
Homrok
Marvin
Pear
Robertson
Burke
Reynolds
Smith
Veronesi
White
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