Table of Contents
Introduction xi
1 What Is Curriculum? 1
Overview of Curriculum 2
Curriculum Philosophy 2
Curriculum Components 3
Educational Reform-Overview 5
Standards 5
What Does All of This Mean? 6
2 What Is Curriculum Leadership? 9
Why Leadership? 10
What Is Leadership? 10
Personal Leadership Skills 15
School Librarians' Leadership Roles 18
What Does All of This Mean? 19
3 School Culture and School Relationships 21
What Is an Organization? 22
What Is Culture? 23
How Do We Measure School Culture? 24
Determining the Culture of an Institution 26
How Can One Change the Culture of the School? 28
What Does All of This Mean? 30
4 Curriculum Mapping 31
What Is Curriculum Mapping? 32
Barriers: Teaching in Isolation 33
What Is the Process of Curriculum Mapping? 34
Horizontal Lens-Horizontal Mapping 36
Vertical Lens-Vertical Mapping 38
The School Librarian's Role 39
School-wide Curriculum Mapping 40
What Does All of This Mean? 41
5 Collection Mapping 43
What Is a Collection Map? 43
How Do I Prepare a Collection Map? 44
Step 1 Locate All of the Materials in the Collection 46
Step 2 Divide the Collection into Smaller Parts 46
Step 3 Decide Which Parts of the Collection to Analyze First 48
Step 4 Determine the Number of Items in a Section 48
Step 5 Print a List of Holdings and Match the List with the Items on the Shelf 49
Step 6 Evaluate Each Item through Quantitative Measures 49
Step 7 Physical Condition through Qualitative Information 51
Step 8 Evaluate the Content of the Material through Weeding 52
What Does All of This Mean? 53
6 Collection Development 55
What Is Collection Development? 55
Learning the Collection 56
Conducting a Needs Assessment 57
Selecting the Materials 60
So, What Should I Purchase? 61
Gifts 61
Baby Steps, Again 62
Policies and Procedures 62
Collection Development Plan Content 63
What Does All of This Mean? 64
7 Instructional Partner and Change 67
A Brief History of the Instructional Role 67
Information Power: Guidelines for School Library Media Programs (1988) 68
Information Power: Building Partnerships for Learning (1998) 68
Empowering Learners: Guidelines for School Library Programs (2009) 69
What Does Instructional Partner Mean? 69
Change 72
School Librarians Implementing Change 72
Becoming an Instructional Partner in a Nutshell 74
What Does All of This Mean? 75
8 The Learning Community 77
What Is a Learning Community? 78
Position Responsibility Lens 79
School Lens 79
School Lens: Community of Practice 80
School Lens: Professional Learning Community 81
School Lens: Critical Friends Group 81
School Librarians and Learning Communities 83
Professional Development 85
What Does All of This Mean? 86
9 Teacher and School Librarian Partnership 87
Learning Theories 87
Inquiry 89
Essential Questions 90
School Library Curriculum 92
Partnership Role 93
What Does All of This Mean? 95
10 Beyond the School 97
Local Organizations 97
District 98
State, National, and International Opportunities 100
Does All of This Mean? 101
A Final Word 103
References 105
Index 113
