Tech Trends: LiveBinders Features Librarian's Resource on Common Core Standards
RSSBy Lauren Barack
"I was confused, too," says Starkey, a librarian at Buckhorn High School in New Market, AL, and co-chair of the children's and school librarians division of the Alabama Library Association. Faced with "tons of information" about CCS, Starkey says she wanted to discern what was relevant to media specialists. Last week, LiveBinders put Starkey's work front and center on its homepage, naming "School Librarians and the Common Core Standards" as a featured resource for educators. While not all states have adopted the standards, most have, including Starkey's own, Alabama. Regional initiatives around CCS vary and are rolling out at different times, creating confusion among educators. "There are many different standards that are published for educators and this is another one of them," says Starkey, whose Standards' LiveBinder is one of several she's created. "It's just a matter of us putting all the standards together into a coherent program." Starkey has packed the site with links, including presentations she's made about CCS to educators across her state. Created in May, many of the tabs are still a work in progress, according to Starkey, who hopes librarians in her home state and beyond will offer suggestions and links that she can add. "I've had some messages of appreciation for putting the resource together," says Starkey. "But there's a lot of stuff out there, and it's going to take all of us to keep on top of it." This article originally appeared in the newsletter Extra Helping. Go here to subscribe.
School librarians wrestling with the Common Core Standards (CCS) and how they fit into their jobs should head over to Carolyn Jo Starkey's LiveBinder. It's an online locker of resources the high school librarian has assembled to answer her own questions about the new national initiative.
