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Standards and Rubrics for School Library Programs

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AASL Standards lesson plan template with dropdown menus
Sharon Fox from Tuxedo Park, a K-12 school librarian, has to do two full sets of lesson plans every week so...she developed this Google spreadsheet with dropdown menus with all the Standards.
Sharon Fox K-12 Library Media Specialist, Tuxedo Union Free School District sharonhesper@gmail.com

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:

The Position Statement on Appropriate Staffing for School Libraries could be of help in thinking through access issues as well as supervisory functions of school library personnel, both laterally and within the school district structure.
School Libraries Count! provides national statistics including collection size and per pupil expenditures that may be used as a benchmark for local school libraries.
A Planning Guide for Empowering Learners offers a structure for evaluating and envisioning an exemplary school library program.

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 these 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

RUBRIC for Evaluating School Library Programs

Model School Library Program Rubric, MSLMA 2002

CAVEAT: This document was written in 2002 and was based on AASL's Information Power, which was updated many times. Since much has changed since this document was created, we do not recommend using it to evaluate school library programs that exist today.

Page Editor: Ann Perham aperham@maschoolibraries.org