“As our world becomes increasingly technological and globally interconnected, it is increasingly imperative that superintendents and cabinet members understand how to best facilitate student acquisition of the so-called 21st century skills.” (Mcleod, 2007) The proficiency levels of students, teachers, and administrators across the country are dropping to their lowest point in years. In education, the responsibility for increasing rigor and raising standards and expectations falls squarely on the shoulders of building and district administration. Information literacy is a necessary skill that has been slowly eroding over the past two decades. By competently applying these skills to the Scholarship-Practice-Leadership model, K-12 administrators will dramatically increase their personal learning levels, understand how to better transfer these skills to others within their learning communities, and ultimately they will bring about positive change on their students and their students. teachers within their school systems with their leadership. Deep within most school administrators lies an innate need for new knowledge. Unfortunately, many school leaders today have lost touch with the importance and skills needed to acquire new knowledge on an ongoing basis. “Information literacy is the basis for competence in lifelong learning. It is necessary in every way of learning, it makes learning needs-oriented, more self-directed.” (Turusheva, 2009) Professional development opportunities within districts can serve to fill some gaps, but it is really the individual administrator's responsibility to continue their education and improve their information literacy skills. Post-graduation…half of the course…or centuries.” (Badke, 2009) Through personal training, an administrator will be able to effectively bring current information literacy data into classrooms and ultimately transform the habits and mastery of the skills of its graduates. Works Cited Badke, W. (2009, July/August) ).Responsibility for asking the right questions. London: University College London.Russell, P. (2009). universities need information literacy now more than ever. Feliciter, 55(3), 92. Schmoker, M. (2007). Results now of students and its importance for lifelong learning. Issues of education in the 21st century, 12(126), 126.