Learning through Books, Media and Technology

ARTICLES THIS ISSUE:

1995 Administrative Leadership Award for Library Media Services

1995 President's Award Winner

1995 Technology Award

Editorial: Highlighting the Arts

Seurat, Haiku, Computers, Murals...

Keywords for the Fine Arts

Library Bids on Bach's Lunches

Quilting Gifts for the Community

Using the Arts to Understand

"Do We Get to Come Back Tomorrow?"

Intersecting disciplines

Good Ideas! Updates

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Editorial

Highlighting the Arts

"The mission of the school library media center is to ensure that students and teachers are effective users of ideas and information." (Information Power: Guidelines for School Library Media Programs)

"[The Arts] foster students' abilities to create, experience, analyze, and recognize... They assist students in realizing their full potential by providing avenues for self-discovery..." (Visual and Performing Arts Framework for California Public Schools, Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve, California State Department of Education, 1989)

"This Framework projects a vision... which places the arts' profound insight into the human condition at the heart of education..." (Visual and Performing Arts Framework for California Public Schools, Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve, Draft, December 15, 1994)

These are the goals that converge in this issue of Good Ideas! as library media teachers, classroom teachers, and administrators collaborate, and students are engaged in effective learning. In this fifth annual issue, we focus on the visual and performing arts as we again highlight school library media programs in elementary, middle, and secondary schools in California that are making a difference. Staff in these schools are committed to:

• programs that meet the learning needs of diverse student populations.
• leadership for student learning provided by full-time credentialed library media teachers.
• partnerships that involve classroom teachers, library media teachers, administrators, students, and community.
• access in the library media center to a wide variety of resources, including print and nonprint media and educational technology, to implement California's curriculum.
• effective learning resources management.

How do they do it and how can you benefit from their experience? How can you use this newsletter to further the goals of your school? The Curriculum Committee of CSLA suggests the following:

• Call and, if possible, visit some of the schools in Good Ideas! to share experiences and trade good ideas.
• Take Good Ideas! to decision makers as evidence that, with an appropriate mix of staff and commitment of resources, library media programs make a difference for students.
• Share this issue with parents, teachers, and curriculum planners to consider new ways to link the library media center and the arts.
• Highlight the good ideas in your own library media programs in a school newsletter, community newspaper, cable television channel, etc.
• Consider describing your program for the next issue of Good Ideas! The focus for the 1996 issue will be on library media programs and services to speakers of other languages. Call Martha Kuss, (619) 583-2500, to request an application.