Hello everyone, I visited the Fremont High School campus in Sunnyvale today while they were having their Flex period. I was fortunate that the director, Bryan Emmert, guided me the whole time and talked to me about the process; I then met with a few teachers to get their point of view. I'll just jot down a few things for now to get the conversation started... - They use TeachMore software for student ID cards; and from the website it looks like San Mateo Union uses them as well, but I'm not sure Aragon does. -TeachMore allows teachers and areas, like the library, to be limited to a certain number of students. So, if a teacher wants a maximum of 40 students, then the attempt to register number 41 is rejected; If a teacher wants to have a small session of just 20 people, they can set it to 20. This works well in the library, as Fremont caps the number at 100. -TeachMore allows reservations, both on the initiative of the teacher and student. . A teacher can ask a student, Johnny Apple, and if Apple tries to check in to another class, a refusal message appears. Students can also reserve a place in a teacher's room. -The library uses a compulsory reservation system; students must register in advance. I walked into the library and there was some slight chatter, but it was pretty quiet. The only people standing were the graduate librarian and the classified library assistant. Director Emmert said that initially a computer lab was opened. But Fremont quickly shut it down because it wasn't very productive and there was only one classified staff member in the lab. There are computers in their library and administration room (I'll get to that in a moment) and many teachers have carts. Maybe we should be in the middle of paper...away for a year. Teachers overwhelmingly approved of it. - The first two weeks of FLEX are called a "closed flex", where students stay with their 4th period teachers and watch videos on how to manage the booking system, PowerPoint/webinar points on how to do this. better use FLEX. Teachers also put pressure on teaching. Next, students undergo a short FLEX where, after lunch, they return to 4th period for FLEX. This gets them used to moving. The last step is the FLEX itself with the reservation system and everything. Emmert suggested bypassing the traditional pilot by a few weeks, fearing that students wouldn't take it seriously, but that it could definitely work at other schools. - Videos made by ASB on using FLEX and PowerPoints are still on their website. .fuhsd.orgThat's all for now. I will review my notes later. It's Star Wars time.