Media Center Information

Mission Statement: At Dr. Sally K. Ride Elementary School, we are a respectful, responsible, and determined community that strives for everyone to feel that their identity and culture are fully valued.  By focusing on kindness, academic learning, and social-emotional growth, children will become critical, creative, and compassionate thinkers who innovate the future.

Library Mission Statement: We will teach students to be respectful, responsible, and determined users of ideas and information and develop literacy skills for life-long learning.

Library Vision: The library is central to learning in our information-based society because it provides access to that information through print, non-print, and electronic resources. This access occurs in school, at home, and through mobile devices. The resources in the library will be used to teach respect for all students and appreciation for our diversity. Information literacy curriculum will be integrated into subjects in the classroom and teach students about critical thinking, media production, digital citizenship, and literature appreciation. 

Library Philosophy: 

• Information is a powerful tool in our society. Access to unbiased information is a hallmark of our democracy and essential for responsible citizenship. 

• Access includes more than just visually seeing the words or data, but includes the skills to find, understand, analyze, and synthesize different resources. 

• All students must be trained in inquiry: to ask questions, seek out good sources, analyze those sources for the answers they provide, organize the information, and responsibly give credit to the author of the idea or artifact. Presenting the information to others in a variety of ways allows students to be contributing members of our interactive and connected society and have their voice heard on topics that matter to them. 

• Reading is essential to learning. Reading for pleasure allows students to explore ideas and learn about people and topics that are interesting to them. 

 MCPS Acceptable Use Policy                           AASL Standards for 21st Century Learning:

As students in the 21st Century, it is important to learn how to use skills, resources, and tools to think, create, share, and grow in the following skills: inquire, include, collaborate, curate, explore, and engage.  

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Work Cited

AASL. Standards for the 21st Century Learner. Chicago: ALA, 2018. Website.

MCPS Superintendent of Schools Office. "IGT-RA Regulation User Responsibilities for Computer Systems, Electronic Information, and Network Security." 22 

Aug. 1995. File last modified on 27 July 2012. PDF.