The Standards
School Libraries have educational standards
The following Common Beliefs and summary descriptions are identified as central to the School Library profession:
The school library is a unique and essential part of a learning community.
Qualified school librarians lead effective school libraries. As they guide organizational and personal change, effective school librarians model, promote, and foster inquiry learning in adequately staffed and resourced school libraries.
Learners should be prepared for college, career, and life.
Reading is the core of personal and academic competency. In the school library, learners engage with relevant information resources and digital learning opportunities in a culture of reading.
Intellectual freedom is every learner’s right.
Information technologies must be appropriately integrated and equitably available.
An effective school library bridges digital and socioeconomic divides to affect information technology access and skill.
Crosswalks
As part of its continued commitment to provide school library professionals the materials and resources needed to implement its new “National School Library Standards,” the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) has released crosswalks aligning the AASL Standards to the ISTE Standards for Learners and Educators and the Future Ready Framework. These downloadable and printable PDFs are available on the AASL Standards Portal and are a precursor to a searchable, web-based crosswalk to launch in 2019.
About the Crosswalks
The AASL Standards Crosswalk Task Force recognizes that sets of standards vary in their nature and level of specificity or generality. When cross-walking standards sets, it is prudent and necessary to leave some interpretation open to the professional educator. Depending on the language used, not all sets of national standards are aligned equally to AASL’s learner, school librarian, and school library frameworks.
Inquire: Build new knowledge by inquiring, thinking critically, identifying problems, and developing strategies for solving problems.
Include: Demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to inclusiveness and respect for diversity in the learning community.
Collaborate: Work effectively with others to broaden perspectives and work toward common goals
Curate: Make meaning for oneself and others by collecting, organizing, and sharing resources of personal relevance.
Explore: Discover and innovate in a growth mindset developed through experience and reflection.
Engage: Demonstrate safe, legal, and ethical creating and sharing of knowledge products independently while engaging in a community of practice and an interconnected world.
Oregon Standards 2017.pdfI. Information Literacy: Use strategies for locating, selecting, organizing, understanding, evaluating, using and producing information.
II. Reading Engagement: Read to pursue intellectual, personal and emotional growth for life.
III. Social Responsibility: Share knowledge and participate ethically and productively as members of our democratic society
IV. Technology Integration: Employ digital technology and communication tools or networks to locate, evaluate, use, create and produce information.
ISTE Standards for Students (Permitted Educational Use).pdfTechnology Standards:
1. Empowered Learner
2. Digital Citizen
3. Knowledge Constructor
4. Innovative Designer
5. Computational Thinker
6. Creative Communicator
7. Global Collaborator
Future Ready Librarians Framework:
1. Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment
2. Personalized Professional Learning
3. Robust Infrastructure, Budget and Resources
CCTC_Standards_Formatted_2014.pdfCareer Technology Standards:
Act as a responsible and contributing citizen and employee.
Apply appropriate academic and technical skills.
Attend to personal health and financial well-being.
Communicate clearly, effectively and with reason.
Consider the environmental, social and economic impacts of decisions.
Demonstrate creativity and innovation.
Employ valid and reliable research strategies.
Utilize critical thinking to make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
Model integrity, ethical leadership and effective management
Plan education and career path aligned to personal goals.
Use technology to enhance productivity
Work productively in teams while using cultural/global competence.
NGSS.pdf