Here’s one more post drawing from the experience of the Ready for Success Summit held at Stony Brook University on March 15, 2024. The afternoon session of the day was devoted to a workshop where tables of librarians, teachers, and administrators talked over a number of different prompts. We discussed the challenges of creating engaging…Continue Reading A Look at Some Dream Libraries
The Ready for Success Project started in 2021 and the plan was always to culminate in some form of regional conference day to share our experiences and to provide a forum for discussing research skills at the high school level. In the early days, all of the grant team’s efforts were so focused on designing…Continue Reading Reaching the Summit
As we put the finishing touches on the Ready for Success Summit for March 15th, we’re looking back over the work we did during the full grant period. Working with the teachers and librarians at Brentwood High School has been a great experience. Early on, however, we did engage with our Stony Brook University faculty…Continue Reading Asking Questions About Student Research Skills
When we were first contemplating the undertaking that became the Ready for Success project, we did what any academic librarian would do: a literature search. Not surprisingly, there is no lack of published research on our chosen topic, namely the research skills that students take with them from high school into college. We had a…Continue Reading Researching the Information Literacy Gap