Recruiting

I’ll say I did a pretty good job recruiting, I’ve doubled my student load. 

Here’s how:

• Early Start camp – this is an opportunity we’ve been doing for two years now.  We bring in ninth graders and expose them to their core curriculum and to electives.  Since I don’t teach 9th graders, this is a way to put the thought in their head early.
• School web designer – I’m the school web designer – see http://www.hillcresthsdallas.org – actually wrote the website in Visual Basic, which I don’t teach but show.  I have a huge number of students taken web design this year.
• Teaching web design – I have three sections of web design and they are full – that’s an opportunity to recruit for CS.
• Attend every open house, etc.  I attended every open house I could last year.  AP Open House, etc. 

The biggest thing is to be out there so students meet you.  Also teach cool stuff in your classes so that friends want to try it.