So at our school we have advisory block: every Tuesday, the first 40 minutes of the day are designated to certain “clubs” so to speak.  We have various advisories which benefit the student population of the school such as recycling, the domestic violence task force, and drug and alcohol awareness.  Students get to sign up and be a part of which ever advisory they want to and work to create a working relationship with their peers and the teachers that run the advisory.

Needless to say, the advisory that I am a part of was nominated to go to a conference for 3 days next week.  I am truly honored to be a part of this conference because the work that we do in our advisory is not only important for our students and our school but our town, the country and the whole world as well.  I am very please to represent our school at this conference.

The question that I pose to you is how do you prepare lessons for you students for 3 days of absence?  I can see a days worth of plans and even back to back days, but 3 seems like a long period of time.  It will run from Tues-Thur and then we have Friday off from school as well.  Is there any way to keep students focused in my absence?  What would you suggest to keep students on task so that upon our return they are ready to go?