Woodside Avenue School Library Curriculum, Standards and Policies
Woodside Avenue School Library believes every student has the right to unrestricted access to information from a variety of viewpoints. Free access allows students to become critical thinkers capable of making their own decisions. The School provides adequate filters to protect children to block child pornography, obscene content, and material deemed harmful to minors. These filters sometimes block websites that do not fall under these descriptors but are filtered based on the whole rather than the parts.
Woodside Avenue School Library will provide a proper usage guide that includes copyright policies for print, Internet, audio and video materials. The school media center will provide individual assistance throughout the school year to instruct the learning community about information ethics. Teachers receive information that helps them distinguish between legal and illegal use of print and online materials. They are provided with valuable tools that can help them monitor their students and prevent copyright violations. The school media specialist also designs lessons for students focusing on preventing plagiarism and using a correct citation format to reference sources for class assignments.
Ethical Behavior of Students
· Students are expected to use proper citation format (MLA, APA, etc.) to reference sources.
· Students will not engage in plagiarism. This copyright violation occurs when students copy another author’s work and present it as their own.
· Students follow the school district’s acceptable use policy for network access.
We protect each library user's right to privacy and confidentiality with respect to information sought or received and resources consulted, borrowed, acquired or transmitted. We respect intellectual property rights and advocate balance between the interests of information users and rights holders. We treat co-workers and other colleagues with respect, fairness, and good faith, and advocate conditions of employment that safeguard the rights and welfare of all employees of our institutions. We do not advance private interests at the expense of library users, colleagues, or our employing institutions. We distinguish between our personal convictions and professional duties and do not allow our personal beliefs to interfere with fair representation of the aims of our institutions or the provision of access to their information resources. We strive for excellence in the profession by maintaining and enhancing our own knowledge and skills, by encouraging the professional development of co-workers, and by fostering the aspirations of potential members of the profession. We affirm the inherent dignity and rights of every person. We work to recognize and dismantle systemic and individual biases; to confront inequity and oppression; to enhance diversity and inclusion; and to advance racial and social justice in our libraries, communities, profession, and associations through awareness, advocacy, education, collaboration, services, and allocation of resources and spaces.
Adopted at the 1939 Midwinter Meeting by the ALA Council; amended June 30, 1981; June 28, 1995; January 22, 2008; and June 29, 2021.
Computer Science & Design Thinking
MISSION
Computer science and design thinking education prepares students to succeed in today's knowledge-based economy by providing equitable and expanded access to high-quality, standards-based computer science and technological design education.
VISION
All students have equitable access to a rigorous computer science and design thinking education. Students will benefit from opportunities to engage in high-quality technology programs that foster their ability to:
● Develop and apply computational and design thinking to address real-world problems and design creative solutions;
● Engage as collaborators, innovators, and entrepreneurs on a clear pathway to success through postsecondary education and careers;
● Navigate the dynamic digital landscape to become healthy, productive, 21st century global-minded individuals; and
● Participate in an inclusive and diverse computing culture that appreciates and incorporates perspectives from people of different genders, ethnicities, and abilities.
PRACTICES
★ Fostering an Inclusive Computing and Design Culture
★ Collaborating Around Computing and Design
★ Recognizing and Defining Computational Problems
★ Developing and Using Abstractions
★ Creating Computational Artifacts
★ Testing and Refining Computational Artifacts
★ Communicating About Computing and Design
DISCIPLINARY CONCEPTS
Computer Science
● Computing Systems
● Networks and the Internet
● Impacts of Computing
● Data & Analysis
● Algorithms & Programming
Design Thinking
● Engineering Design
● Interaction of Technology and Humans
● Nature of Technology
● Effects of Technology on the Natural World
● Ethics & Culture
