Collaborating for Project-Based Learning in Grades 9-12

This is the book that high school media specialists have been asking for! Finally, a project-based approach to student learning in high school featuring the school library media specialist in a starring leadership role in the school improvement process!

This is the book that high school media specialists have been asking for! Finally, a project-based approach to student learning in high school featuring the school library media specialist in a starring leadership role in the school improvement process!

• Includes how-to directions for project-based learning for high school students

• Find scientifically-based research incorporated into actual practice

• See both theory and practice in active collaboration to bring authentic examples of the school media specialist's leadership role in school improvement

• Use the best rubrics and plans you can ever imagine today with your students and teachers

Experienced and award-winning librarians collaborate to bring you the book you need to employ best practices with high school students. It is all here in this book―the why, the what, and the how. Allow these wise authors to affirm what the school librarian knows: that collaborating with teachers to guide high school students in inquiry-based learning is an effective practice. Watch learning soar as students are deeply engaged in their meaningful school work.

Violet H. Harada is a professor at University of Hawaii, Library & Information Science in Honolulu, HI.

Carolyn H. Kirio is an educator at Kapolei High School in Kapolei, HI.

Sandra H. Yamamoto is an educator at Kapolei High School, Kapolei, HI.