Standards and Rubrics for School Library Programs

​DESE Rubric: School Librarians 
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​AASL Learning Standards and Program Guidelines (Fall 2017) ​Rather than quantitative standards that promote compliance with an inflexible and minimal list, school librarians need the dispositions of deep commitment and inquiry required by continuous program assessment and advocacy with stakeholders. AASL offers several tools for program evaluation:

• School Libraries Count! provides national statistics including collection size and per pupil expenditures that may be used as a benchmark for local school libraries.    

7/25/2016: 
AASL approved a new position statement in support of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA): Definition of Effective School Library Program. http://essa.aasl.org/
 
They also updated  position statements http://www.ala.org/aasl/advocacy/resources/statements:

MASSACHUSETTS STANDARDS:​

• Massachusetts Recommended PreK-12 Information Literacy Standards,  MSLA 2009.    (60 pages)
• Abridged STANDARDS: Intro, Benchmarks, References; 
• Appendix II: Alignment of MSLA PreK-12 Information Literacy Skills with MA Technology Literacy Standards and Expectations and AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner​

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