Beuchley et al.

Hi Alicia, I have been trying to reduce the amounts of copies that I make in my math and science classroom this year. I teach grade 9's, and both of our textbooks are available online. I did not check out textbooks to my students unless they were fully aware that they were to return the textbook or pay the $90 replacement fee. I received a huge amount of resistance to parents because their student MUST have a textbook. Breaking this pattern is going to take some time. I also posted all of my notes online this year, in the hopes of reducing the paper copies that I would have to make. After having a group website for all of our core classes for grade 9's for one year, I still have students asking me where they can find the notes (mostly because final exams are starting). It's frustrating to do this extra work to find that it isn't being used by parents or students. I haven't reduced my photocopying at all, but I have reduced the numbers of "lost" textbooks. Rose