1. ASCD Education Collection Who can use it? What is it? Where is it? When can it be used? Why use it?

2. Who can use it? All RRISD staff RRISD parents RRISD students

3. What is it? ASCD, formerly Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development 66 Professional education titles Searchable by topic, author, or title

4. Where is it? WWW – wherever you need it! ◦ Password required outside RRISD Links from RRISD home page, Teacher Resources pages, campus Research Resource pages, Library Services home page

5. When can it be used? 24/7 Content can be ◦ Saved as *.pdf ◦ Downloaded as MP3 ◦ Emailed ◦ Translated ◦ Read aloud

6. Why use it? Target specific professional growth topics Book studies Share philosophy with parents Stretch campus resources – no cost to campus

7. How does it work? Locate by author/title list

8. Search by topic

9. Search results page: Sort options: Relevance Document Title Publication Date Publication Title

10. Article view

11. Contents

12. Link from Library catalog