Vision+Statement

=**Vision Statement**=

The Drake Middle School Library is the center of teaching and learning for the school. As such, the library provides equal access to quality collections and technologies appropriate to the instructional and recreational interests of the student body. The library program is acknowledged as a partnership involving all members of the school community and is designed to meet the unique needs of the school population. The program seeks to nurture both a love for reading and the desire to learn. It is administered by a school librarian whose primary role is that of a team teacher who enters the curriculum through literature and a school-based continuum of information literacy and technology skills. These skills are integrated authentically within the subject area content through collaborative planning between the librarian and teachers. Flexible scheduling and adequate teacher planning time allow for the necessary collaboration to take place. As recipients of this planning, students in the library and throughout the school are engaged in reading as well as inquiry-based learning projects designed by teachers and the librarian.