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 **WORKING TOGETHER TO ENHANCE STUDENT**  **LEARNING**    This WIKI focuses on improving student learning through the combined efforts of classroom teachers and the school library media specialist. "School library media centers can contibute to improved student achievement by providing instructional materials aligned to the curriculum; by collaborating with teachers, administrators, and parents and by extending their hours of operation beyound the school day," as stated in The Achiever dated September 15, 2004. Listed below are helpful resources for administrators promoting collaboration among classroom teachers and the library media specialist in their building. ** Advocacy and Collaboration  **                       **  **                                     Administrators may find these resources useful. These items can assist in promoting an understanding of the roles of the media center in correlation to student achievement and the positive outcomes of collaboration among school classroom teachers and the school's media specialist.              ** Texts **       //__**   Curriculum Partner: Redefining the Role of the     Library Media  Specialist  **__// //  ** by Carol A. Kearney **    //         <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif">      <span style="FONT-SIZE: 90%; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif">      <span style="FONT-SIZE: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif">Carol A. Kearney explains  <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif"> how the library media specialist can work alongside teachers and administrators in the areas of collaborative development, implementation, and assessment of the instructional program. She discusses theory, research, and the real life experiences of forty library media specialists. Both administrators and school library media specialists (novice and experienced alike) will find this book useful. //    **<span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif">__School Reform and the School Library Media Specialist__ by Violet Harada and Sandra Hughes-Hassell **    //      <span style="FONT-SIZE: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif">    The authors discuss issues that reflects today's library media specialist issues and solutions to assist them in dealing with these challenges. It brings into light NCLB's legislation connection with library media specialists, 21st century literacy requirements, population diversity and professional growth. It speaks of there being a great need for school librarians to become teaching partners and change agents. It also addresses important questions such as, "How do we design inquiry based instruction that leads to understanding?" <span style="FONT-SIZE: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif">      //  **__We Boost Achievement: Evidenced-Based Practice for School Media Specialists__ by David V. Loertscher with Ross J. To** dd // <span style="FONT-SIZE: 90%; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif">     In his book, Loertscher provides evidence collecting techniques that library media specialists can use for reading, information literacy, collaborative planning, and technology. The techniques are useful when it comes to documenting progress or lack thereof and self-assessment. This guide is a great resource when the bottom line is student achievement. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif"> <span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-SIZE: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: center">     //__**The Standards-Based Integrated Library: A Collaborative Approach for Aligning the Library Program with the Classroom Curriculum**__//         ** //by Donna P. Miller// ** <span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-SIZE: 90%; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: left">   <span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-SIZE: 80%; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: center">  This is a useful text for: 1) the elementary school media specialist who wants to align the library program and educational standards; 2) the classroom teacher who wants to redesign their curriculum and; 3) the administrator  <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif"> who needs various strategies for team planning purposes. The author provides descriptions as to how administrators, media specialists, and classroom teachers each have a role to play when it comes to collaboration. Included also are model lesson plans, templates, the National Content Standards, and ways in finding time to collaborate.

<span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-SIZE: 90%; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: left"> //__<span style="DISPLAY: block; COLOR: #181886; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: center">**      A Planning Guide for Information Power: Building Partnerships for Learning with School Library Media Program Assessment Rubric for the 21st Century      ** __//        <span style="DISPLAY: block; COLOR: #181886; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: center">    **//  by Donald C. Adcock //**  <span style="FONT-SIZE: 90%; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif">This book gives step-by-step instructions in the form of a workbook, to help administrators and/or school library media specialists during the process of implementing a collaborative library program. Included is a rubric for administrators and school library media specialists as an action planning and school assessment tool. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 110%; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 130%; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 90%; COLOR: #540fc2; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif"> **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 90%; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif"> Journal Articles ** <span style="FONT-SIZE: 90%; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 70%; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif">  <span style="FONT-SIZE: 110%; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif">** ** <span style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif">  <span style="FONT-SIZE: 90%; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif"> These articles give an overview of how media specialists can be leaders, how significant they are to a school and student learning, ways they can provide evidence of student learning, and how to overcome obstacles. The articles give weight to the issue of all schools having highly qualified media specialists to collaborate with classroom teachers. <span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-SIZE: 80%; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: left"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif"> ** NCLB and the SKILLS ACT **     <span style="FONT-SIZE: 110%; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif">    <span style="FONT-SIZE: 70%; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif">**   ** <span style="FONT-SIZE: 110%; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif">   <span style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif">    <span style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; COLOR: #04065d; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif">These files present the nine standards of NCLB that pertain to library/media, along with how and why the SKILLS ACT Bill was introduced into legislature when NCLB was up for renewal. The acronym SKILLS stand for Strengthening Kids' Interest in Learning and Libraries. **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 90%; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif"> Data   ** <span style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif">  <span style="FONT-SIZE: 90%; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif">     <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif">** **          <span style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif">   <span style="FONT-SIZE: 90%; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif">   **** <span style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 90%; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif">  <span style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif">These resources provide evidence that student learning and the media center are connected, with the help of a student survey and state report. Also provided are templates to assist media specialists in maintaining various types of data (portfolios, surveys, etc.).