Kindergarten–Middle School 6–12 Talking Points for 13. Students
achieve more academically when their teachers and school library
media specialists plan and deliver instruction collaboratively.
Quick Stats Supporting This Talking Point More than three out of
four elementary schools (over 75 percent) spending an average or
above amounts of time on cooperative planning were schools with
higher-achieving students. (Lance, Hamilton-Pennell and Rodney
2000) At the fourth grade level, there were significant positive
correlations between English Language Arts CST scores and
fourteen library staff services. The two strongest associations
were with informal instructing students in the use of
resources,… and communication proactively with principal… At the
eighth grade level, there were also fourteen services that were
significantly related to English Language Arts CST scores, with
the three strongest being communicating proactively with
principal, offering a program of curriculum-integrated
information literacy instruc