PHI DELTA KAPPAN • April 2018 • Vol. 99, No. 7
ALL THE ADULTS WHO MATTER — BEYOND TEACHERS AND PRINCIPALS
8 School nurses: An investment in student achievement — Erin D. Maughan
15 Why school librarians matter: What years of research tell us — Keith Curry Lance and Debra E. Kachel
21 Making the most of instructional coaches — Britnie Delinger Kane and Brooks Rosenquist
26 School social workers as partners in the school mission — Nadine M. Finigan-Carr and Wendy E. Shaia
31 Who’s really driving student outcomes? — Anthony R. Meals
35 How school counselors make a world of difference — Patrick J. O’Connor
40 Who works in schools?
42 What a difference a district can make: An interview with Meredith Honig — Rafael Heller
MORE FEATURES
47 Peer mentoring to support first-generation low-income college students — Sean Plaskett, Diksha Bali, Michael J. Nakkula, and John Harris
52 Teacher leadership to support English learners — Felice Atesoglu Russell and Kerry Soo Von Esch
57 Do students’ high scores on international assessments translate to low levels of creativity? — Stefan Johansson
62 Making sense of student agency in the early grades — Margaret Vaughn
67 A wider vision of learning — Elliot Washor
DEPARTMENTS
4 THE EDITOR’S NOTE: Who matters? — Rafael Heller
6 HIGHLIGHTED & UNDERLINED: A notebook of short but worthy items
72 LEADERSHIP: Let’s be precise about personalization — Joshua P. Starr
74 WASHINGTON VIEW: The plight of Puerto Rico — Maria Ferguson
76 UNDER THE LAW: The state of teacher tenure — Julie Underwood
79 PDK CONNECTION: Organizational news about PDK International
80 BACKTALK: What we all need to know about vaping — Susan Leonard