When we were approached as content experts for this issue of Knowledge Quest, we wanted to frame the issue around a growth mindset for what school librarians wanted to take forward from a stressful pandemic experience. What emerges from this… Read More ›
Information and media literacy are important components of library instruction. When seeking to answer an information need, school librarians ask students to consider authority, accuracy, objectivity, and currency of a source. The criteria school librarians have spent years teaching our… Read More ›
As educators, school librarians, and professionals we have all had the training necessary to properly do our jobs. Training for classroom management. Training for library best practices. Training on new and emerging technologies. Those professional development and learning opportunities came… Read More ›
Pivoting and flexibility have become critical to teaching and learning during the last year. The ever-changing nature of the pandemic has kept educators on their toes and ultimately upended the education system around the world, forcing districts, schools, teachers, and… Read More ›
Equity, diversity, and inclusion (commonly shortened to EDI) is a term that has become common in our institutional language around race and racism. In schools, EDI most often refers to the demographics of the student and employee body, the need… Read More ›
Why are the AASL Standards so important? Simply put, they give us a focus for what our students need to learn. AASL’s National School Library Standards provide guidance for individual states as they determine what their state standards should be…. Read More ›
Collaboration is a wonderful thing for school librarians because there are so many opportunities for collaboration with fellow educators, students, administrators, and the community. School librarians can become leaders in their school communities through collaboration. Collaboration can take many forms,… Read More ›
Looking for more guidance on intellectual freedom and equitable access? Check out Jamie Gregory’s online exclusive article “The Freedom to Learn.” In the article Jamie states that “successful implementation of the National School Library Standards requires widespread application of principles… Read More ›
Intellectual freedom is a core value of the library profession. It is not an outdated, rarely thought about core value; it is a living tenet that allows for the promotion and protection of ideas from all viewpoints and access to… Read More ›
Reading is so important. It is a life skill that children must master to have success in the world. As author Mary Pope Osborne has said, “Reading is the basic springboard for learning. And books provide the liftoff. They are… Read More ›