Program Planning

AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner

Library Services has developed several documents to assist your school in developing an exemplary library program:

Comprehensive Education Plan Guiding Questions
Schools may wish to refer to this set of Guiding Questions as they are preparing their Comprehensive Education Plan. the questions will help educators think through the essential elements of exemplary library programs and determine the areas where they would most likely to improve their library services in order to impact the education of every student in the school.

Family Literacy Guide
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The Family Literacy Guide provides support for librarians working with parents and caregivers on how to make literacy a part of family life from birth to grade 12. The guide provides lists of books that are appropriate for each grade level.

Grade-by-Grade Information Skills K-12
Inquiry is an essence of teaching and learning that empowers students to follow their sense of wonder into new discoveries and insights about the way the world works. The empowered learner calls upon information/inquiry skills to connect with what he or she knows, ask intriguing questions about what is not known, investigate the answers, construct new understandings, and communicate to share those understandings with others.

The information fluency skills required for in-depth learning must follow a coherent development continuum of instruction and practice throughout the years of schooling, K–12 and beyond, to enable all of our children to become independent learners.

Information Fluency Continuum
The Information Fluency Continuum provides a framework for the instructional aspects of a library program. The framework is based on three standards that form the basis for the skills and strategies that are essential for students to become independent readers and learners.

LMC21 Rubric
What are the opportunities for improvement of your Library Media Center? Use the LMC21 Rubric to determine how your library matches the characteristics of a 21st Century Library Media Center. The strengths and needs identified will lead to focus areas for your Library Learning Walk.

Librarian's Handbook
The Librarian's Handbook is a guide to the policies, standards, and procedures that enable library personnel to develop, organize, and manage exemplary library programs.

Library Learning Walk
The Library Learning Walk is designed as a collaborative tool for administrators, librarians, and teachers to define the vision for their library program and the path to achieve that vision. It is an observation and planning document that is based on national and state standards for school library media programs and the philosophy of centering a library program on student learning.

Reflective Practice
An easy-to-use rubric to evaluate and develop goals for a school librarian's professional growth.

Program Responsibilities
Responsibilities for the library program shared by the educators at the school

Librarian's Frequently Asked Questions
Answers to some of the most commonly asked questions by librarians

REACTS Taxonomy
A taxonomy of research projects for differentiating instruction.

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