Best Practices

Best practices will continue to be added to this site as we are able to curate them. 

Instructional Best Practices

• 📁Lesson Plan Banks

• 🎨Making Across the Curriculum Lesson Plans (K-12)

• 🎦 Guidelines for Showing Films in the Classroom

  • 📃 Request for Prior Approval: Films in School

WCPSS Library Standards

• 🏆 School Library Program Standards

  • 📕 Collection Standards

  • 📘 Cataloging Standards

  • 📗 Genrefying Standards

  • 🏫 School Library Design Standards

Library Management Best Practices

• 💻 Best practices for self-circulation

  • 📓Circulation Policy template option 

• 💲Best practices for purchasing

  • 📄Navigating vendor sites to create a better book order

  • 📝Use your Collection Management Plan to inform purchasing decisions

  • ✅Rubric for Review of Supplemental Materials - For use when an MTAC is tasked with reviewing supplemental materials for use or purchase. This rubric can also be used by PLCs or school leadership. 

• ⌚Best practices for scheduling

• 📙 AASL Position Statement on Labeling Practices