When we were designing the proposal for the Ready for Success grant, we were driven by a number of goals. While one of the main objectives was to reinforce the importance of research skills at all levels of a student’s education, another was to emphasize the fact that research skills are not just for completing…Continue Reading Engineering a Practical Experience
Year: 2022
The first BHS classes to visit SBU!
On Thursday, December 15, 2022, SBU Libraries hosted the first of several BHS student visits. We welcomed two AP Seminar classes to campus, along with their teacher Sydney Bryan and BHS librarians Diane Longo and Maureen Ryan. In the library’s computer classrooms, the students learned about what information is available using academic library resources, practiced…Continue Reading The first BHS classes to visit SBU!
Information literacy intensive summer retreat!
After a year of meetings and relationship building and planning with our colleagues at Brentwood High School, in summer 2022, we hosted an intensive hybrid workshop and retreat for a cohort of very enthusiastic BHS teachers to raise awareness and proficiency among the educators about research and information literacy skills and college expectations. We spent…Continue Reading Information literacy intensive summer retreat!
Strengthening Research Skills in High Schools
University Libraries is partnering with Brentwood High School (BHS) on a grant project to improve college and workforce readiness by strengthening research skills in their students. The grant from the William E. & Maude S. Pritchard Charitable Trust aims to create a scalable and replicable “train the trainer” model that can be implemented throughout Suffolk…Continue Reading Strengthening Research Skills in High Schools