Schlitterbahn

Librarians and Assistants: I'm sending this informational sheet to you early so that you can definitely tell your students what they are reading for with the Schlitterbahn program. We did not receive our first request, so we had to re-think the incentives. The new plan is attached. All schools with students who read at the minimum page level will be guaranteed a pair of free tickets. I will have promotional information sheets for your students later this week. There will be a formal informational item in the PIP for your administrators and IC's. Many of you have asked for information just as soon as it becomes available. This is it. Officially, this reading program began on December 18, 2009. It will end on April 15, 2010. Tickets will be distributed as soon as possible after that because the waterpark opens in May, and the tickets will be good as soon as they open and throughout the summer. I know you will have questions. Please e-mail them to me so that I can send them around to every school. If you have a question, others will, also. Mary

Mary Sternshein Associate Director of School Libraries mastern@kckps.org

We have confirmed a working proposal with Schlitterbahn for our spring reading program. Here is the basic information you've been waiting for. A formal announcement indicating the details of the program will come out in the PIP later this week. I'm still working on that document. This information is for you – **please do not copy this for your staff and students**. Advertising flyers will be available for you to give to your students this week. They might just be in black and white rather than the color flyers we have for summer reading - but I will have that flyer to you electronically before Family Advocacy Days begin this Wednesday afternoon. I will be able to get you the electronic copy long before I can provide print copies. If your school can run its own copies, you will be ahead of the others. I can not promise print copies to all schools by Wednesday noon. __If you need copies run for you, I need to know ASAP__. If librarians/library assistants are available to pick up copies or to babysit the copier (feed it paper, make sure it doesn't jam, etc.) then your print copies will be available faster.
 * School Librarians and Assistants: January 31, 2010 **

Here is the breakdown of schools: High schools: 6 total [5 + 1 which includes all alternative schools] Middle Schools: 8 total Elementary Schools: 30 total Preschools: 4 total


 * Incentive Plan: **
 * **__Each student__** who reads the required number of pages or more for his/her grade level will receive a Buy-One-Get-One-Free ticket to Schlitterbahn good for up to 4 people. (2 paid tickets and 2 free tickets) If students ask, this means admission to the waterpark would cost $16.50 + tax for 2 people.
 * **__Each school__** who has at least one reader will receive a pair of free tickets to the Schlitterbahn Waterpark. Information will be forthcoming about how these winners will be selected. Each school is guaranteed at least one winner if even one student read the minimum number of pages. Additional pairs of free tickets will be distributed to schools based upon the number of readers achieving the goal we have set.
 * **__Each instructional level__** (preschool, elementary, middle, high) will have season tickets to Schlitterbahn according to the number of students enrolled in that level. There will be 10 winners.
 * Preschool – 1 pair of season tickets
 * Elementary – 4 pair of season tickets
 * Middle School – 2 pair of season tickets
 * High School – 2 pair of season tickets
 * At Large – 1 pair of season tickets drawn from the entire district

Since this will be a district spring reading program, we hope that all 48 schools will participate. In order to provide rewards for readers, we will be drawing for many of these tickets. M. Sternshein
 * Please make sure that you keep accurate counts of the pages your students give you.** You are the pivotal piece in this reading program. Please do not promise tickets to students who fail to read at the minimum level. We are very happy to reward students who push themselves and achieve. We can’t continue to give students who cry or complain because they don’t want to read the same rewards that other students have earned. Be firm. Your students will rise to our expectations.