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
We are thrilled to announce that Dr. Brenda Boyer, Assistant Professor, School of Communication & Information, Rutgers University, will be the keynote speaker at the Ready for Success Summit! Her roles have included being a high school teacher librarian, consultant, instructional designer, researcher, and professor. Her most current research involves the study of first-year college…Continue Reading Summit 2024: Keynote Speaker
Registration for the Ready for Success Summit is now LIVE! Misinformation. AI. Deep fakes. Paywalls. Copyright. Citation. Search algorithms. How well are your students prepared to navigate and understand the modern information landscape? Join us on Friday, March 15, 2024 at Stony Brook University for a day of presentations and discussions with teachers, librarians, and…Continue Reading Ready for Success Summit March 15, 2024
We were honored to present on our Ready for Success project at this summer’s SUNY Librarians Association (SUNYLA) conference held on the stunning campus of SUNY Maritime College in the Bronx from June 14-16. Speaking to a room full of college librarians, we walked them through the design of our program along with feedback from…Continue Reading SUNYLA 2023
When Laura Pombonyo was arranging to bring her Social Work class to SBU Libraries as part of our grant program, she had a specific focus in mind. Attending our retreat over the summer had left her with a lot of research-related ideas and concepts that she thought would be of value to her students. But…Continue Reading Diving into Mis- and Disinformation
We had fun with Tracy Kohl’s 12th grade AP English Literature class on Wednesday, January 18! They are working on a project that involves choosing a well-known fairy tale, such as Cinderella or The Little Mermaid, and analyzing it by considering a variety of theoretical perspectives. Students used SBU’s databases that index scholarly articles on…Continue Reading Fairy Tales and Theories and Databases, Oh My!
As part of our Ready for Success project, we had Brentwood High School classes visit the SBU Libraries over our Winter Session for some on-site activities. Not every class was the same, though. Some had specific research projects to tackle while others were more open-ended and focused on exposing the students to research in general….Continue Reading Breaking out the Breakout Boxes