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Download full textEhlers, Jilian – Knowledge Quest, 2020
As one of the most culturally diverse schools in New York City, the Metropolitan Expeditionary Learning School (MELS) serves about 850 students in grades 6 through 12. MELS is "A School for a Sustainable City" and a New York City Outward Bound School. MELS uses the Expeditionary Learning education model, which focuses on student…
Descriptors: Periodicals, Active Learning, Student Projects, High School Students
Direct linkTechman, Melissa – Knowledge Quest, 2014
Creativity is about openness and connection, it signals the chance to get ideas, share ideas, and try new things or put together old things in new ways. Libraries have always had the potential to source and support creative activities. Public library events and opportunities bring together people, ideas, and stuff (whether fabric, paint, wood,…
Descriptors: Creativity, Library Role, Library Services, School Libraries
Foote, Carolyn – Knowledge Quest, 2016
When secondary school librarians teach students digital life literacies, they help students perceive that librarians can provide support for real-life problems. The more librarians work with students, create inviting library environments, and have positive engagements with students, the more they change student perceptions of librarians in…
Descriptors: Success, Academic Achievement, School Libraries, Librarians
Hamilton, Buffy J. – Knowledge Quest, 2009
In 1989 the American Library Association defined information literacy as a set of abilities requiring individuals to recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information. While these fundamental skills are still at the heart of information literacy instruction, the nature of that…
Descriptors: Media Specialists, Information Literacy, Library Services, Basic Skills
Peer reviewedAbilock, Debbie – Knowledge Quest, 1999
Outlines myths about gifted readers. Suggests that librarians are vital in nurturing gifted children by developing collections which respond to high abilities and diverse intelligences while honoring the chronological age of these readers, by creating responsive learning environments and using flexible teaching strategies, and by supporting…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Childhood Needs, Educational Environment, Gifted
Peer reviewedGordon, Carol – Knowledge Quest, 2001
Presents a dramatization of a high school library in 1968, a place with wooden bookcases, card catalog, wooden furniture and tiptoeing librarian through 30 years of changes to a library media center with banks of computers, librarian-teacher cooperation, emphasis on authentic assessment, and the satisfaction of librarian, teachers, and students…
Descriptors: Change, Information Literacy, Information Technology, Learning Resources Centers
