CASL Collaboration Grant

 

INTRODUCTION:

 

The CASL Collaboration Grant in the amount of $1000.00 is available to a Connecticut library media specialist for the current school year.

 

The purpose of this grant is to encourage library media specialists to collaborate with one or more teachers on a project that provides students the opportunities to meet the standards in the CT Information and Technology Literacy Framework (or AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner) and content area standards.  The project must contain technology because it is designed to help students meet the technology literacy standards.  Collaboration is measured by the extent of co-planning, co-teaching, and co-assessing by the library media specialist and one or more classroom teachers.  Collaboration means that the library media specialist has to have a larger role than supporting the project with resources.

 

Submit a proposal in which the library media specialist and a classroom teacher(s) work collaboratively to develop a new project or unit that:

• Implements these aspects of mission of CASL
• CASL is committed to excellence in education by ensuring that students are active readers and effective users of ideas and information to become lifelong learners.
• CASL promotes collaboration between classroom teachers, library media specialists, administrators, and curriculum specialists for the benefit of student achievement especially in information literacy and technology literacy.
• Implements the standards of Ct Information and Technology Literacy framework 
• Integrates the information literacy process with classroom content.
• Is designed, taught, and assessed by both the library media specialist and the collaborating teacher (s).

 

The main criteria for the project is that it must be a collaborative project designed to allow students to meet information and technology literacy standards, but it could also meet any of the following criteria:

• become part of the school’s curriculum and be duplicated every year.
• be innovative
• serve as a model for other library media specialists to duplicate in their school.
• involve more than two days to allow for depth of learning
• initially include the students in one classroom, but be able to be expanded to include other students in the same grade.
• be interdisciplinary,
• involve the whole school or
• be part of CMT or CAPT preparation   

Guidelines & Judging Criteria (PDF file)

 

Completing the Application:

 

Cover Page and Applications and Assessment  must be received by November 1, current year. Applicants must complete and submit electronically a Cover Page and  Application.  Furthermore, The assessment method must be sent as an email attachment.

 

Click here to submit the Cover Page

 

Assessment:

 

Assessment refers to method(s) of evaluation used by teachers and LMS AND methods of self-evaluation used by students.  Evaluation methods can be as simple as teacher observation of student attitude and behavior before and after the project, test results, or measurement of skills attained as a result of the project, or survey’s of student’s perceptions of the project.  Send a rubric or checklist or criteria to be used as an email attachment to:  aweimann@snet.net

 

Directions to complete the Collaboration Grant Project Application:

 

Grade (s): Students learn different skills and teachers/lms use different instructional strategies for different grade levels.  A project may be suitable for many grade levels. Pick one target grade level to describe the skills taught and instructional strategies used.

 

Essential Questions: Use essential questions for the CT framework AND AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner AND the content area curriculum.  Make sure the questions are essential questions and not topical questions

 

Click here to submit the Collaboration Grant Project Application