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Today's Topics:

   1. Nutmeg Award slides (Karen Hoffman)
   2. From the AASL Friday Forecast (Barbara Johnson)
   3. Book recommendations (Musket, Kimberly)
   4. benchmark assessments for K-2 library (Collins, Kerry)
   5. Re: Book recommendations (Laura Abed)
   6. High Schools needed to participate in Global Traveling Mural
      (CASL President)



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From: Karen Hoffman <karenehoffman@live.com>
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Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2025 23:07:43 +0000
Subject: [CASL-L] Nutmeg Award slides

Does anyone have slides that they created for the 2026 Nutmeg book award nominees for intermediate grades 4-6 and middle school grades 7-8 that they could share with me?

Thank you,

Karen Hoffman

LMS 

Woodstock Middle School

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From: Barbara Johnson <bajohnson@colchesterct.org>
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Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2025 09:33:57 -0400
Subject: [CASL-L] From the AASL Friday Forecast

November 6

Charting Your Course: Creating a Scope and Sequence to Strengthen the School Library's Impact (AASL Webinar)

Just in case you didn't see...

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Barbara Johnson

Instructional Technology Coordinator

Colchester Public Schools

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From: "Musket, Kimberly" <kmusket@wallingfordschools.org>
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Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2025 10:51:42 -0400
Subject: [CASL-L] Book recommendations

Good morning, 

I am searching for suspense/thriller books that meet the following criteria. 

-About a second/early third grade level

-Interesting for an eighth grade boy

-cover that doesn't look ancient or really young

I tried him in a book that's about middle of third grade and it's too challenging for him. 

Thank you! 

Kim

Kim Musket

School Librarian

James H. Moran, Sr. Middle School

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From: "Collins, Kerry" <collinsk@bethel.k12.ct.us>
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Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2025 11:20:51 -0400
Subject: [CASL-L] benchmark assessments for K-2 library

Hello,

For a K-2 library, what are you using for a benchmark/data collection to show growth over the year?

All ideas/suggestions welcome!

Kerry

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Kerry Collins

Library Teacher/Certified Library Media Specialist

Rockwell School (K - 2)

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Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2025 12:03:00 -0400
Subject: Re: [CASL-L] Book recommendations

I bought hi-lo readers from Orca that worked pretty well. I think the cover illustrations are more appealing than they used to be. 

Laura Abed

Retired librarian

On Oct 10, 2025, at 10:52 AM, Musket, Kimberly <kmusket@wallingfordschools.org> wrote:



Good morning, 

I am searching for suspense/thriller books that meet the following criteria. 

-About a second/early third grade level

-Interesting for an eighth grade boy

-cover that doesn't look ancient or really young

I tried him in a book that's about middle of third grade and it's too challenging for him. 

Thank you! 

Kim

Kim Musket

School Librarian

James H. Moran, Sr. Middle School

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Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2025 13:12:15 -0400
Subject: [CASL-L] High Schools needed to participate in Global Traveling Mural

Hello CT Colleagues/Friends!

I'm at a high school (different one from last year!) and am working hard to get a group together of HIGH SCHOOLS for Shannon Miller's Global Traveling Mural:  
LINK

If you're a high school librarian/teacher, please join GROUP 6 for high schools! LINK

It's free, except for the cost to mail parts of our finished mural to the 9 other participating schools throughout the country.

Below is a photo of a finished mural last year at my school before we cut it up into ten pieces to mail to our partner schools:

Two of my library workers designed the mural and then the rest of the school colored it in and/or wrote or drew ways they were pursuing their excellence (school theme). 

Below you can see our final mural with one piece from NHS (third panel from left) and the rest from our nine partner schools.

If you haven't participated it's a super fun program and we get to learn more about schools around the country.

Please forward to librarians and teachers at other high schools throughout the country! We need six more schools to finish the team.

Thanks,

Valerie DiLorenzo

CASL President

Connecticut Association of School Librarians' Organization Address:

4 Wotton Lane

Burlington, CT 06013

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