Library Standards.pdf

1. COLLABORATE: School librarians model the use of communication tools and resources, and cultivate networks for learners to build on prior knowledge and create new knowledge.
2. CURATE: School librarians promote information gathering by sharing diverse sources, encouraging the use of information with diverse perspectives, fostering questioning and assessing validity and accuracy, and providing tools to organize information.
3. ENGAGE: School librarians act as a resource for using valid information and reasoned conclusions to make ethical decisions, showing strategies for ethical use and reproduction of others' work, requiring complete attribution, and promoting inclusion of elements for proper citation.
4. EXPLORE: School librarians stimulate learners to construct new knowledge by teaching problem-solving, providing opportunities for tinkering and making, and modeling persistence.
5. INCLUDE: School librarians establish opportunities for learners to interact with others with diverse perspectives, devise learning activities to evaluate perspectives, and design opportunities to illustrate diverse viewpoints.
6. INQUIRE: School librarians promote new knowledge generation by ensuring learners probe possible answers, devising plans to fill knowledge gaps, and facilitating the development of products that illustrate learning.

GROW Standards:

1. COLLABORATE: School librarians foster active participation in learning situations by stimulating learners to contribute to group discussions and creating a learning environment where learning is a social responsibility.
2. CURATE: School librarians show learners how to select and organize information by engaging them in analysis and reflection on the quality, usefulness, and accuracy of curated resources, and formulating tasks to achieve this goal.