1. School Libraries & Learner Agency
#jeffcok12
Nancy White
21st Century Learning &
Innovation Specialist
Academy School District 20
Twitter: @NancyW
Photo by Fancy Jantzi, CC licensed on Flickr
2. Think- Pair - Share
Learner Agency is to future success as
_________________ is to __________________
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4. AASL Mission for School Libraries
“The mission of the school library program is to
ensure that students and staff are effective users
of ideas and information; students are
empowered to be critical thinkers, enthusiastic
readers, skillful researchers, and ethical users of
information.”
5. AASL Standards for the
21st Century Learner
• Think
• Create
• Share
• Grow
10. The Learner Has the RIGHT to…
Think
Create
Learners
have rights!
Share
Grow
Educators must create the conditions
for them to do so.
11. The Learner’s Bill of Rights
committee:
• Chair: Jody Gehrig, Director of Libraries, Denver Public
Schools
• Mary Beth Bazzanella, District Office, Jeffco School
District
• Cheri Hilton, South High School, Denver Public Schools
• Nance Nassar, State Library
• Carol Peterson, Instructional Technology, Poudre
School District
• Nancy White, ET-IL Information Literacy Specialist,
District Office, Academy 20 School District
24. This is what agency looks like in
a school library!
Picture cc licensed by Alaska Library Association on Flickr
25. Nick Rate, principal at Kumeroa-Hopelands
School in New Zealand wrote:
“Some of the key words that describe student
agency:
enabling, empowering, self-monitoring,
goals, feedback, meta-cognition, active,
responsive, self-directed and meaningful.”
Rate, Nick. (2013, June 4). “Student Agency.”
Available http://nickrate.com/author/nick/
26. In the school library, students…
• Are enabled
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27. In the school library, students…
• Are empowered
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28. In the school library, students…
• Practice selfmonitoring
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29. In the school library, students…
• Set and follow
goals
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30. In the school library, students…
• Receive feedback
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31. In the school library, students…
• Are guided to
practice metacognition
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32. In the school library, students…
• Are active
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33. In the school library, students…
• Are responsive
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34. In the school library, students…
• Are self-directed
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35. In the school library, students…
• Find Meaning
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36. Think- Pair - Share
Libraries are to Learner Agency as
_________________ is to __________________
#jeffcok12
37. Here’s What it Looks Like
Arvada West High School Library
Susie Lackey, Teacher-Librarian
38. Reflect-now its your turn
• What’s one or two things you are going to do
next week to increase your students agency?
• How might you work with your school library
to accomplish this?
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