Description

This session will focus on integrating the AASL School Library Standards and the Teaching Tolerance Social Justice Standards in the school library. Participants will interact with activities designed to integrate in K-12 libraries and share best practices for working with both sets of standards. Participants will walk away with full lesson plans to utilize in the school library.

Learning Objectives:

• Participants will identify the relationship between the AASL shared foundations of Include and Curate and the Social Justice Standards.
• Participants will identify how to integrate the AASL standards and social justice standards in teaching and learning within the school library.
• Participants will identify how by creating a culture of respect and diversity students and school libraries thrive.

Speaker(s):

• Jennifer Sturge, Specialist for School Library, Calvert County Public Schools
• Donna Mignardi, School Librarian, Calvert County Public Schools
• Marianne Fitzgerald, School Librarian, Severna Park High School