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Donna Cross and Leanne Lester from the University of Western Australia discuss 10 key strategies to enhance student transition to secondary school. The article on transition is important because the library has a significant role to play here, at all levels of education. Consider how TLs in both primrary and secondary sectors can actively plan to bridge the move.

"Current education is calling on schools to transition into a new paradigm of learning. We can see this in the challenges given through current standards (e.g., Common Core State Standards, Next Generation Science Standards, and International Standards for Technology in Education), the demands of the work place, the complexity of the world, and lack of effectiveness of the "stand and deliver" method of teaching. 21st century teaching and learning is this new paradigm that is trying to create students that will be problem solvers and critical thinkers. Our society is changing at such a rapid pace; we, as educators, are preparing students for jobs that don't exist yet. This means we have to change how we teach and how we lead our schools."

Welcome the the New Technologies & 21st Century Skills website. This website is an ongoing project created and maintained by the Laboratory for Innovative Technology in Education (LITE). 21st century skills are an important consideration for every educator as we are striving to prepare today's students to become prepared for the competitive global market of tomorrow. This website seeks to provide a resource that allows educators an opportunity to easily navigate educationally relevant Web 2.0 tools, resources, and examples of standards alignment. Connecting these skills to familiar frameworks, such as Bloom's Digital Taxonomy, can assist educators who are transitioning into meaningfully integrating technology into their classrooms.

"Leadership through meta-literacy actions Meta-literacy provides the impetus for our transition to future learning - a new kind of learning that has adaptability at its core. Becoming a model for lifelong learning has been the goal of every teacher librarian because school libraries are in the knowledge business. This is where we find our strength and our call to leadership."

ACCESS, Vol. 26, Issue 1, 2012, pp. 4-7.

ACCESS, Vol. 26, Issue 1, 2012, pp. 4-7.