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 time learning, practicing, sharing, and reflecting on the many ways information literacy skills can help students become better users of information, in the academic setting as well as others. We also started to design curriculum activities to implement in the classroom in the coming academic year. Moving forward, the grant team will be monitoring how this cohort of teachers, who represent multiple academic areas, incorporates different aspects of research and information literacy skills into their curriculum.
