School media specialists must be teachers, leaders, and advocates for reading, inquiry, and learning. Partnering with classroom teachers, they must design and implement curriculum and instruction that prepare young citizens for a life that requires thinking, inquiry, problem-solving and ethical behavior. These experiences provide the foundation for all content-area learning. In order to be prepared for a constantly changing environment, professionals need to revisit, reframe, and re-imagine knowledge, skills, attitudes, and dispositions. In this article, the author presents six tools that form a media specialist's palette to help them meet these challenges. Along with these tools, specific ideas and examples are presented that illustrate how this palette of tools can be used in the media center on a daily basis.