Brian M. Stack's School Leadership Blog

NEWS FLASH! The GED TEST will CHANGE at the END OF 2013.   Anyone who has not completed the current test will need to start all over in January 2014 with a brand new high school equivalency test.  The high school equivalency certificate issued by the NH Department of Education will be based on the HiSET exam rather than the GED beginning in 2014. GED CLASSES AND TESTING Morning and evening GED prep classes begin with registration on Monday, September 9 th for day and Thursday, September 12 th for evening classes.  Exeter Adult Education offers the GED test on a monthly basis through December 2013.  Students must pass an official practice test and attend at least two test dates in order to complete the full battery.  Test dates can be found online at http://adulted.sau16.org.  The m andatory practice test is given by appointment only ($15).  Please call to schedule.  Advance registration is required.  A government issued picture ID and $65 is required at the time o

Today, my school librarian Pam Harland has asked me to deliver a Pecha Kucha presentation at New Hampshire's Library Camp 2013, a conference sponsored by the NH School Library Media Association. Pecha Kucha is a Japanese word for chit-chat. In the Pecha Kucha style, 20 Power Point slides are shown, each for 20 seconds in length. The entire presentation is 6 minutes and 40 seconds in length, and forces presenters to keep their thoughts concise and fast-paced with lots of images. It is a very interesting model, and I am looking forward to giving it a try today. My topic is this: Change is coming to your school, is your library ready? My goal is to help school librarians understand that as we redesign our schools to meet the needs of students in the twenty first century, our libraries need to evolve too. I see a school library as "the center of the academic universe of a school." Here is a video of my Pecha Kucha presentation for today. Wish me luck!