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According to the  AASL National School Library Standards for Learners, School Librarians, and School Libraries, there are six shared foundations and key commitments. Those foundations are; inquire, include, collaborate, curate, explore, and engage. Everything that is done in the library falls into at least one of these categories. I've had the pleasure of working in a library and working with other librarians in my school district so I am able to have conversations about what happens in our libraries. Over the past few months, I had the opportunity to interview four librarians to discuss how they use the shared foundations. In this blog post, I will be referencing an interview I had with Jenny Prete. We discussed "inquire". As always, we started discussing the definition of "explore". The AASL defines "inquire" as "building new knowledge by inquiring, thinking critically, identifying problems, and developing strategies for solving problems". ...

   According to the  AASL National School Library Standards for Learners, School Librarians, and School Libraries, there are six shared foundations and key commitments. Those foundations are; inquire, include, collaborate, curate, explore, and engage. Everything that is done in the library falls into at least one of these categories. I've had the pleasure of working in a library and working with other librarians in my school district so I am able to have conversations about what happens in our libraries. Over the past few months, I had the opportunity to interview four librarians to discuss how they use the shared foundations. In this blog post, I will be referencing an interview I had with Michelle Martin. We discussed "explore". As always, we started discussing the definition of "explore". The AASL defines explore as "Discover and innovate in a growth mindset developed through experience and reflection". It took me reading this definition to make me ...

 According to the  AASL National School Library Standards for Learners, School Librarians, and School Libraries, there are six shared foundations and key commitments. Those foundations are; inquire, include, collaborate, curate, explore, and engage. Everything that is done in the library falls into at least one of these categories. I've had the pleasure of working in a library and working with other librarians in my school district so I am able to have conversations about what happens in our libraries. Over the past few months, I had the opportunity to interview four librarians to discuss how they use the shared foundations. In this blog post, I will be referencing an interview I had with Jeri Rogers. We discussed "curate". Similar to my first interview, we started our meeting by comparing our definitions of "curate" with the AASL's definition. The AASL defines curate as, "making meaning for oneself and others by collecting, organizing, and sharing reso...

According to the  AASL National School Library Standards for Learners, School Librarians, and School Libraries, there are six shared foundations and key commitments. Those foundations are; inquire, include, collaborate, curate, explore, and engage. Everything that is done in the library falls into at least one of these categories. I've had the pleasure of working in a library and working with other librarians in my school district so I am able to have conversations about what happens in our libraries. Over the past few months, I had the opportunity to interview four librarians to discuss how they use the shared foundations. In this blog post, I will be referencing an interview I had with Sherri Alston. We discussed "collaborate". We started our conversation by talking about what the word "collaborate" means to us. I think this is important because "collaborate" may mean different things to different librarians. In this case, we had the same idea of the...