It’s elementary, my dear listener: Investigating elementary school library policy

About this episode

The episode discusses effective policies and practices for elementary school libraries based on collaborative research.

What policies and practices would make our elementary school libraries more effective? That’s the question that led Elc Estrera from Data, Research, and Accountability to begin collaborating with Kendra Allen and Susan Bock from Library Media Services. It resulted in some informative and intriguing research , which we review in this episode. Tune in to learn about our libraries and pick up some strategies for conducting research. This is a crossover episode with Work Smarter, Not Harder. Consider following their show on Spotify , Apple , or wherever you get your podcasts. Theme music by Millbrook High School’s Tre’mond Ponton Contact us via our website or at datalit@wcpss.net Data, Research, and Accountability department for the Wake County Public School System

People in this episode

Host: Data, Research, and Accountability

Guest: Elc Estrera

Topics covered

• elementary school libraries
• library policy
• research strategies
• collaboration
• education

Keywords

• elementary school
• library policy
• research
• education
• collaboration

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Library Media Services

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