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Cromartie, Kathy; Burns, Elizabeth – Knowledge Quest, 2019
To gather, contribute, connect, be a creative force, defend, and guide are demanding dispositions that make an excellent school library professional. School librarians use these dispositions like poles of support as they glide down the slopes of student learning and curriculum. They leverage their roles of teacher and librarian like skis giving…
Descriptors: School Libraries, National Standards, Library Administration, Librarians
Lankau, Louise – Knowledge Quest, 2015
In this article, Summer Creek High School (Harris County, Texas) librarian, Louise Lankau shares a formula for successfully integrating technology via the school library and reaching every department and teacher in a school of 2,500 students and 170 teachers. The challenge is that the teaching staff at Summer Creek increases each year to…
Descriptors: High Schools, Technology Integration, School Libraries, Library Automation
Stubeck, Carole J. – Knowledge Quest, 2015
Fixed scheduling is well-researched in the school library literature. We know from this research that information skills taught in isolation from curriculum content are not as relevant to students as skills taught in the context of what they already know (McGregor 2006). Constructivism is an approach to learning that posits individuals construct…
Descriptors: Evidence, Inquiry, School Libraries, Scheduling
Grigsby, Susan K. S. – Knowledge Quest, 2014
Middle school librarian Susan Grigsby believes strongly in teaching independence in book selection, and has been able to back up her belief by putting programs in place that provide evidence to show her administrators how fostering independence works. She spends time creating personal bibliographies for her students based on an interest survey.…
Descriptors: Library Services, Library Materials, Library Instruction, Reading Material Selection
Johnston, Melissa P. – Knowledge Quest, 2013
The explosion of technology and information has resulted in major changes in education in the twenty-first century. School librarians have a vital role to play in efforts to ensure that students are equipped with the skills and knowledge they need to succeed and participate in the digital society of the twenty-first century. This role presents an…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Librarians, Partnerships in Education, Technology Integration
Wejrowski, Kay; McRae, Mat – Knowledge Quest, 2013
In this article, the authors describe how they created a school library that is the center of learning in their school community with the collaborative vision of the principal (Mat McRae) and the school librarian (Kay Wejrowski) and the support of their entire staff. For eight years, McRae and Wejrowski have worked together as principal and school…
Descriptors: Library Development, Library Services, Reading Improvement, Reading Habits
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Lance, Keith Curry – Knowledge Quest, 2002
Discusses findings of six recent studies on the impact of school libraries on student performance. The findings concern: (1) school library development; (2) leadership and collaboration activities that foster information literacy; and (3) the use of instructional technology to extend the reach of the library program beyond the walls of the school…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education, Information Literacy
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Pharr, Faye – Knowledge Quest, 2002
Describes changes brought about by a Library Power initiative at an inner city magnet school in Chattanooga (Tennessee). Highlights include: Library Power beliefs; collaborative planning between the library media specialist and teachers; the new role of the library media specialist as an information specialist, teacher, and instructional…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Flexible Scheduling, Learning Resources Centers, Librarian Teacher Cooperation
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Hartzell, Gary – Knowledge Quest, 2002
Discusses why school administrators have not heard about the difference libraries make in student achievement (e.g., stereotypes of libraries and librarians, lack of attention to library programs in teacher/administrator training, the absorbability and invisibility of library work) and how to make changes in order to draw benefits from school…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrator Role, Administrators, Educational Administration
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Hartzell, Gary – Knowledge Quest, 2002
This bibliography lists materials on school libraries, organized in the following sections: (1) Evidence that Quality School Library Media Programs Positively Affect Student Achievement; (2) Evidence and Arguments that Collaboration Pays Dividends; (3) Evidence and Arguments that Administrative Leadership Is Key in Developing Quality Library Media…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Role, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Leadership
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Farwell, Sybil – Knowledge Quest, 1998
Profiles cooperative projects developed at elementary schools in the Miami-Dade County Library Power Grant. Discusses the librarian/teacher collaborative planning process. Describes the PEACE (Plan for Excellence in a Collaborative Environment) project which revolves around a multi-leveled, pyramid design for collaborative planning. (AEF)
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Cooperative Programs, Elementary Education, Grants
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Gordon, Carol – Knowledge Quest, 2001
Presents a dramatization of a high school library in 1968, a place with wooden bookcases, card catalog, wooden furniture and tiptoeing librarian through 30 years of changes to a library media center with banks of computers, librarian-teacher cooperation, emphasis on authentic assessment, and the satisfaction of librarian, teachers, and students…
Descriptors: Change, Information Literacy, Information Technology, Learning Resources Centers