I know Kevin is from here, who else? What school? How much of your school uses WBT, what is the overall feeling of it amongst your staff? I have been "selling" it to my staff since before summer, even more so now that we are back and I went to the conference this summer. My admin is hooked, she's seen us using it in 4th grade, all of us do. There are always that handful who won't buy into a new idea, so I'm just wondering what schools here are using it that I could reference in the furture.

I teach in Bartow. Found WBT by chance last year at the end of the year. Started using it last Friday but didn't have much access to the site. My students loved it the first day! As far as I know, I am the only teacher at my school who uses it but you never know. It is awesome! Now that I can access the rest of the site, I can't wait to start using more of WBT in my class.

Wish I had known about the conference, hopefully next time

I've loved using WBT this year; it is definitely the best first-three-weeks of my entire career. I've been able to share WBT with a couple teachers here and there, and word is beginning to get back to my administrators. At lunch the other day, the Assistant Principal said, "What's this brain-friendly stuff Mrs. So-and-so told me you're doing in your room?"

The ladies who accompanied me to the Wellington conference brought WBT back to their school (North Lakeland Elementary), and from what I'm seeing from them on Facebook, everyone who has used it loves it.

The main issue I see is teachers who either feel successful with their current system (which is fine...do what works, IMO) or who are too stuck with tradition that they don't want to try anything new. I try not to share too aggressively because I've found it turns people off. I'm trying to just let the word spread organically.

I personally am not pushing it too hard. I shared with my team, and we are using it as a grade level. My administrators are the ones who wanted me to present to my school. I have a power point with the basics I used to present if anyone would like me to send it to you. Nothing fancy. Some loved it, some didn't care, some were just confused because it's hard to do in 30 min what we got in 7 hours! Unless my admin asks me to do more, I probably won't do much more training wise.
I totally agree with what you said Kevin....either stuck in old traditional ways and don't want to change, or has something that works. I'm the same as you, perfectly fine! Don't fix something that isn't broken!

I used to be a Reading Coach at Winston Elementary. One third grade teacher, with a very challenging class, started using these techniques with wonderful results! We video taped her doing the "Crazy Professor" and showed it to the whole staff. Most of the teachers were amazed!

Hey, Winston! I went there as a child from Kindergarten through 3rd grade!