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School library media teachers and administrators can use this comprehensive tool to assess the current performance of--and set objectives for--school library media programs. The handbook covers the roles of administrators and other staff; administrative functions (like budgeting, ordering and processing, facilities, library policies, scheduling, school/public library cooperation); collection management (such as evaluating collection development and integration, censorship policies, layout of materials, overdues and losses); instructional elements (including student learning and library staff's professional development); and technology (purchase and use of computer hardware and software). Ideal for structuring evaluation plans and as a text for education instructors, the book also contains appendixes with sample evaluation forms, sample job descriptions, and a glossary of terms. ... Read more

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This handbook covers what the novice media specialist needs to know from the first day on the job; what questions need to be asked; and what procedures need to be mastered from budgeting, facilities, and equipment to collection development, networks, and working with teachers. ... Read more

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This volume will help teachers and administrators design, organize and conduct evaluations of their school's reading and language arts programmes - without needing to use complicated statistical procedures or research techniques. ... Read more

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Hundreds of school librarians have made presentations about the Lance studies linking school library media programs to achievement. The third edition of this standard work helps presenters even more by updating every presentation to include all 14 of the Lance studies through the Illinois study completed in 2005. Yes, there is still a one minute, a five minute, and a 15 minute presentation complete with PowerPoint slides available on the LMC Source website for download but every one has been updated and re-phrased if needed by the addition of all 14 studies in some 8,000 schools. In addition to the presentations, there are many discussion starters to help school librarians conduct focus groups centering on various aspects of the library media program that boost achievement. This new edition also has doubled the size of the appendixes with many handout connected to the various studies in the book. And finally, there are many studies both listed and described that exist beyond the Lance studies; the Ohio study by Ross Todd being just one example. Any school library media specialist who anticipates making any kind of presentation about the Lance studies or other studies linking library media programs to achievement should have this new edition. ... Read more

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Juice up your library programs with these lively, thematic, book-based activities for children in grades 4-8. Ten chapters focus on popular themes and study areas Welcome to Victorian England, Gross Science, Discovering Family Roots, Is This Goodbye? Endangered Animals, and more, offering an annotated list of select books and two complete programs for each theme. You'll find step-by-step instructions, materials lists, and all the reproducible patterns, scripts, and stories you'll need to make it happen. In each chapter, one program is suited to the needs of school libraries and the other is targeted at public libraries, although both can be adapted to either environment. Through reading, creative dramatics, puzzles, writing exercises, arts and crafts, and more, you can engage young learners while building their literacy and reading skills, and their love of books and reading. Designed for school and public libraries, these activities are great for after-school programs and also fit beautifully into classroom studies. Grades 4-8.

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Ideal for home-schooling and after-school programs
An essential service in the eyes of parents, 'Story Hour' is a popular mainstay of school and community libraries for children of all ages from preschool through eighth grade. "Story Celebrations: A Program Guide For Schools And Libraries compiled by former children's librarian Jan Irving is an instruction and guide manual for creating library story telling programs for children in grades 4 through 8. Comprised of ten chapters, each of which focuses upon a particular theme or study area, "Story Celebrations" offers annotated lists of selected books along with two complete programs for each designated theme. Included are step-by-step instructions, materials lists, reproducible patterns, scripts and stories to make each Story Hour a unique experience that is as fun as it is informative. In addition to school and community library story hours, these reading lists, puzzles, arts, crafts, writing exercises and more, make "Story Celebrations" ideal for home-schooling and after-school programs, as well as a traditional classroom curriculum supplement. ... Read more

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In Programs and Practices contributors describe and critique various ways that writing across the curriculum (WAC) has been incorporated into schoolwide, districtwide, and statewide programs. ... Read more

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Editor Bernice Cullinan has gathered a team of outstanding educators to discuss ways to use children's literature in the classroom.Excite your students with the many creative ideas suggested for using poetry, fiction, and nonfiction in a literature-based reading program and for learning across the curriculum.A foreword by Tomie dePaola and an afterward by Bill Martin Jr. frame this book with personal accounts of the importance of literature, language, and reading. ... Read more

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Analyzes how teachers attempt to translate the language of reform into pedagogical action. ... Read more