Zmuda, Allison

Provides strategies for improving the classroom environment to help students become more independent learners.

Analyzes persistent myths about teaching and learning and offers ideas and strategies for dispelling them through creativity, fresh thinking, innovation, and authentic assessments.

Contains a set of six operating principles through a fictional dialogue that provides practical guidance to school leaders, including identifying core beliefs, creating a shared vision, and developing and implementing an action plan.

Examines the role of librarians in education, focusing on school library media specialists, and describes howlearning specialists can update school approaches to learning by promoting collaboration between librarians and the teaching staff, as well as developing digital collections.