Product Description: This book of best practices documents how school administrators and librarians can work together to optimize their library media services.• Includes a collection of practical tools, such as a library walkabout description and form, a list of administrative enablers and inhibitors, GEAR process documentation and worksheets, administrator self-assessments in each chapter, planning paperwork for budgeting, scheduling, staffing, and feedback forms for the administrator and the library media specialist• Each chapter concludes with a comprehensive list of additional resources• Contains 13 helpful appendices section...read more

Product Description: Finally―a current tool that library media specialists can use to assist their principals in understanding how an exemplary school library program really works, and how important the library is to student achievement. This book provides media specialists with substantive information to help principals be effective practitioners and understand the influence a successful library media program has on students and teachers...read more

Shows teachers how to help students build a solid foundation in solving information problems in meaningful contexts.

Discusses techniques and strategies for teaching students the skills needed to find, understand, and process information effectively.