[The warm-up activities] help students learn what they're interested in.

To incorporate fun, hands-on activities, we designed five stations that allow students to benefit from while they learn.

We do have to be really proactive with some students, and it's helping, I think. We're seeing the results, and we saw results in October testing. It really did have an impact.

We always need more tutors, because there are students who are waiting for a tutor to help them improve their reading, writing, math, or basic computer skills.

That is one strategy to help prepare the students. A teacher might also tackle a specific section of the narrative and teach that as a lesson, such as the who and what, or the when and where.

These classes have never been offered as second-semester classes, so it may help students who need to pick up another class, but aren't interested in what's already offered,