“A Vision of K-12 Students Today” with comments by Nancy White

This You Tube video, written and produced by B. Nesbitt, was shared at a CASL Board Meeting recently by CASL President, Su Eckhardt. What does this have to do with school librarians, you ask? Here is my humble opinion. I think that school librarians are perfectly positioned to begin to make [...]

Professional Bibliography

Works cited in Allison Zmuda’s 2007 CASL preconference presentation:
Bain, K. (2004). What the Best College Teachers Do.
Barth, Roland S. (2001). Teacher Leader. Phi Delta Kappan, 82(6), 443.
Bransford, John D., Ann L. Brown, and Rodney R. Cocking (eds). 2000. How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School.
Burney, Deanna. 2004. “Craft Knowledge: The Road to Transforming Schools.” [...]

Real Rubrics

I’ve been reading over the holiday break about Nebraska’s standardized testing in an article titled, “The Road Less Traveled’ in Educational Leadership Dec 07/Jan 08. Nebraska developed a system of local assessment rubrics called STARS: School-based, Teacher-led Assessment and Reporting System. So instead of a high stakes multiple choice, one answer test like we have [...]