On July 13, 2020, Jennifer Sturge, President of the Maryland Association of School Librarians, authored Library Leadership: A Seat at the Table in KNOWLEDGE QUEST, the official publication of the American Association of School Librarians (AASL). She discusses five criteria of leadership, the second of which is “Improve Results/Results Improve.”

In this section of the article, she cites Debra E. Kachel’s and my March 2018 Phi Delta Kappan article, Why School Librarians Matter: What Years of Research Tell Us as a good summary of more than two decades of school library impact studies. (The theme of that month’s issue was all the other adults who matter at school.)