Toward a 21st-Century School Library Media Program

Chapter 1 Introduction
Part 2 Part I: Learning Leadership: Collaboration
Chapter 3 1. Building Teaching Partnerships: The Art of Collaboration
Chapter 4 2. America's Most Wanted: Teachers Who Collaborate
Chapter 5 3. Teacher and Teacher-Librarian Collaboration: Moving Toward Integration
Chapter 6 4. From Fixed to Flexible: Making the Journey
Chapter 7 5. What Works: Gauging the Impact of Teacher and Teacher-Librarian Collaboration
Chapter 8 6. Do Your Collaboration Homework
Chapter 9 7. What Works: Collaborative Program Planning and Teaching
Chapter 10 8. What Works: Collaboration Among School Specialists
Chapter 11 9. What Works: Building Collaborative Learning Communities
Part 12 Part II: Learning LeadershipL Curriculum Design and Assessment
Chapter 13 10. What Flavor Is Your School Library? The Teacher-Librarian as Learning Leader
Chapter 14 11. Assignments Worth the Effort: Questions Are Key
Chapter 15 12. Beyond the Bird Unit
Chapter 16 13. Focus on Understanding
Chapter 17 14. Working Smarter: Being Strategic About Assessment and Accountability
Chapter 18 15. Demystifying the Evaluation Process for Parents: Rubrics for Marking Student Research Projects
Part 19 Part III: Learning Leadership: Technology Integration
Chapter 20 16. You Know You're a 21st-Century Teacher-Librarian If...
Chapter 21 17. The Digital School Library: A Worldwide Development and a Fascinating Challenge
Chapter 22 18. The Components of Successful Technologies
Chapter 23 19. The End of the Teacher-Librarian
Chapter 24 20. Something Wiki This Way Comes...Are You Ready?
Chapter 25 21. InfoTech: An Info-Skills Workout: Wikis and CollaborativeWriting
Chapter 26 22. Literacy Links: Wikis and Student Writing
Chapter 27 23. Literacy Links: Wikis and Literacy Development
Chapter 28 24. Beyond Wikipedia
Chapter 29 25. Literacy Links: School Library Blogging
Chapter 30 26. Literacy Links: New Online Technologies for New Literacy Instruction
Chapter 31 27. InfoTech: Podcasting in the School Library, Part 1: Integrating Podcasts and Vodcasts Into Teaching and Learning
Chapter 32 28. InfoTech: Podcasting in the School Library, Part 2: Creating Powerful Podcasts With Your Students
Chapter 33 29. InfoTech: Want to Be My Friend? What You Need to Know About Social Technologies
Chapter 34 30. Open the Door and Let 'Em In
Chapter 35 31. InfoTech: Flash: Engaging Learners Through Animation, Interaction, and Multimedia
Chapter 36 32. Personal Computing: Keeping Up With RSS
Chapter 37 33. InfoTech: Turn Up the Music With Digital Technologies
Chapter 38 34. InfoTech: Open-Source Software in School Libraries
Part 39 Part IV: Learning Leadership: 21st-Century Skills
Chapter 40 35. Graduating Students Who Are Not Only Learned But Also Learners
Chapter 41 36. Skills for the Knowledge Worker
Chapter 42 37. They Might Be Gurus
Chapter 43 38. The Generation Z Connection: Teaching Information Literacy to the Newest Net Generation
Chapter 44 39. Analyzing Student Search Strategies: Making a Case for Integrating Information Literacy Skills Into the Curriculum
Chapter 45 40. Critical Literacy: A Building Block Toward the Information Literate School Community
Chapter 46 41. Literacy Links: Supporting Comprehensive Literacy Instruction in Your School: Guiding the Inclusion of Information Literacy
Chapter 47 42. Literacy Links: Online Information Literacy: Moving From the Familiar to the New
Part 48 Part V: Learning Leadership: Literacy and Reading
Chapter 49 43. Teacher-Librarian as Literacy Leader
Chapter 50 44. Literacy Links: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Motivation
Chapter 51 45. Mrs. Travis's Traveling Library: A Teacher-Librarian's Attempt to Gather Data About Reading Aloud to Students
Chapter 52 46. Challenging the Gender Divide: Improving Literacy for All
Chapter 53 47. Overcoming the Obstacle Course: A Look at Teenage Boys and Reading
Chapter 54 48. Where the Boys Are
Chapter 55 49. Boy Books, Girl Books: Should We Reorganize Our School Library Collections?
Chapter 56 50. Going Beyond the Debate: Using Technology and Instruction for a Balanced Reading Program
Chapter 57 51. Technology Meets Literature: Meeting Authors Through Their Blogs
Chapter 58 52. Literacy Links: New Literacies: Toward a Renewed Role of School Libraries
Chapter 59 53. Literacy LInks: Dramatic School Library Literacy Programs
Chapter 60 54. Literacy Links: Visual Literacy and School Libraries
Part 61 Part VI: Learning Leadership: Partnerships
Chapter 62 55. Why Should Principals Promote School Libraries?
Chapter 63 56. Moving the Fence: Engaging Your Principal in Your School Library Program
Chapter 64 57. Administrator's Perspective: Helping Leaders to Learn: Teaching Principals About School Libraries
Chapter 65 58. Developing the Respect and Support of School Adminstrators
Chapter 66 59. Beyond the Frontline: Activating New Partnerships in Support of School Libraries
Chapter 67 60. Strategy: Working With Your School Board Members
Chapter 68 61. Catch Them (Preservice Teachers) While You Can!
Part 69 Part VII: Learning Leadership: Issues and Management
Chapter 70 62. The Seven Most Critical Challenges That Face Our Profession
Chapter 71 63. Using Data in the School Library
Chapter 72 64. Using Focus Group Interviews to Improve Library Services for Youth
Chapter 73 65. Marketing Reflections: Advocacy in Action
Chapter 74 66. Are Libraries (and Librarians) Heading Toward Extinction?
Chapter 75 67. How One Child Learns: The Teacher-Librarian as Evidence-Based Practitioner
Chapter 76 68. Bringing Vision to Practice: Planning and Provisioning the New Library Resource Center
Chapter 77 69. School Library Accessibility: The Role of Assistive Technology
Chapter 78 70. Corey's Story
Chapter 79 71. The School Library as Sanctuary
Chapter 80 72. Safe Haven: Libraries as Safe Havens for Teens
Part 81 Index
Part 82 About the Editors and Contributors

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