What are the rough order estimates on cost savings/opportunities that Media center brings? What are the revised rough estimates of the financial savings/opportunity for Media center improvements? What is our Media center Strategy? What are internal and external Media center relations? How will variation in the actual durations of each activity be dealt with to ensure that the expected Media center results are met? This best-selling Media center self-assessment will make you the principal Media center domain leader by revealing just what you need to know to be fluent and ready for any Media center challenge. How do I reduce the effort in the Media center work to be done to get problems solved? How can I ensure that plans of action include every Media center task and that every Media center outcome is in place? How will I save time investigating strategic and tactical options and ensuring Media center costs are low? How can I deliver tailored Media center advice instantly with structured going-forward plans? There's no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed best-selling author Gerard Blokdyk. Blokdyk ensures all Media center essentials are covered, from every angle: the Media center self-assessment shows succinctly and clearly that what needs to be clarified to organize the required activities and processes so that Media center outcomes are achieved. Contains extensive criteria grounded in past and current successful projects and activities by experienced Media center practitioners. Their mastery, combined with the easy elegance of the self-assessment, provides its superior value to you in knowing how to ensure the outcome of any efforts in Media center are maximized with professional results. Your purchase includes access details to the Media center self-assessment dashboard download which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows you exactly what to do next. Your exclusive instant access details can be found in your book.

Based on the methods of the New York City Library Power Program, this is a practical handbook for revitalizing or rebuilding the school library. Putting the many facets of the media specialist's professional life into the context of a flexibly scheduled, collaboratively planned teaching program, the book offers simple strategies for effecting positive change. It covers such topics as the librarian's role as teacher, programming, assessment, collection development, facilities, technology, the library budget, support staff, and public relations. Written for the school library media specialist who has or plans to have a library that conforms to today's vision of an effective school library media program, this book places the library media center at the heart of the school's educational program and shows how to position the library as the catalyst for school reform.

A revised and updated edition of the best-selling guide for schools implementing PBIS Tier 1 PBIS (positive behavior interventions and supports) is the most important tool educators have to deal with disruptive student behaviors. This revised and updated handbook provides detailed guidelines for implementing and sustaining PBIS for schools and teams. New in this edition is a chapter addressing inequity and bias in behavior referrals and discipline; a tiered fidelity inventory (TFI) to evaluate adherence to PBIS practices; different methods of data collection; and new research on sustainability. Positive school climates are not achieved through expulsions, suspensions, or detentions, but instead through collective analysis and data-driven decision-making. Downloadable digital content offers a PDF presentation to aid staff buy-in and customizable forms to help manage data and assess progress with ease.