Edmonds District Librarian's Meeting @ CPM

On Tuesday, the librarians of Edmonds met at College Place Middle School. The main focus of the meeting was to learn about the upcoming state social studies CBA (classroom-based assessments) and how librarians in the district can support this effort. We broke into small groups for discussion. We talked about the many ways we can help: teaching pieces of the process, finding resources (web, text, people), finding fiction read-alouds to compliment a CBA, and stocking the library with books at a wide range of reading levels that support a CBA. It was interesting to realize that the district is only requiring a 5th grade CBA at the elementary level. During my work with the WLMA CBA Sub-Committee, I thought that all-levels from 3-12 had to complete at least one. According to the district, that's a recommendation and only the civics ones are specifically required (middle & high school are different, but I wasn't a part of that small group).

I think that the librarians in our district will be up for the challenge and I think the Teaching & Learning Dept. is excited to include the librarians on the CBAs. More information from the district about CBAs will be coming soon. They still have some fundamental questions to answer (like...will all 5th graders do the same topic to allow for scoring conferences at the dist. level). The district also wants to make sure that the teachers aren't overwhelmed, since at elementary, teachers are working on the collaborative literacy project, new math adoption, and new science kits.