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Shared Foundation VI. Engage Deborah D. Cooper, Fairfield County Librarian  Demonstrate Safe, Legal, and Ethical Practices Librarians support and promote scholars’ commitment and intellectual growth by modeling and explicitly teaching best practices in information and resource use. Mrs. Cooper has what one would call a mixed scheduling system. A mixed schedule consist of her seeing certain classes at a fixed time each week, but also allowing her to have time to have open flex scheduling where teachers can sign up for library time as needed. This is what helps Mrs. Cooper teach how to cite sources,  Easybib, and Works Cited pages. In order to better serve the teachers at her school, she looks at their lesson plans to see how she can help in any way to support their standards. This may include but is not limited to pulling books that match, doing certain read-alouds, and or helping students with certain research topics. She also teaches the teachers about copyright laws so th

Shared Foundation IV Curate Leslie Cooper  Collecting, Organizing, and Sharing Resources Librarians maintain an abundance of resources that complement both the standards and scholars’ interests and needs. Librarians can help select interactive technology tools for working with small student groups to guide standards-based projects, perspectives, and publish scholars’ work. Librarians help scholars curate information in efficient and effective ways. Ms. Cooper gave me great knowledge of how to create readers. Read and know the books on your shelves, how else are you going to tell scholars what to read. This is not the first time someone has told me to listen to my books because they will speak to me. To know your books is to set yourself up for success. Knowing your books is a powerful tool because you will know what you have and what you need for your scholars’ interest. One of the most memorable statements she made was the power we have to buy a book and give it to the righ

Shared Foundation III. Collaborate Kelly Anne Burbage, Mitchell Elementary Team Work Makes the Dream Work Librarians help scholars to work effectively with others to build on their prior knowledge of the standards in order to create new knowledge. Librarians foster a learning environment in which scholars understand how to be social responsible when networking. Students may not see the library as a place to collaborate but it is our job to open their minds to understand collaboration is everywhere. Students working together over a period of time to create a poster by StickTogether is just one way Ms. Burbage incorporates collaboration. Students also get to see first hand how bees work together with the bee colony right in their library.  Ms. Burbage keeps abreast of what teachers are teaching by collaborating in the content area. You have to be intentional so teachers and students know you are there to support them and nothing is isolated. It is challenging to collaborate

AASL graphic Shared Foundation II. Include Cindy Philbeck Simmons-Pinckney Middle School, three years A school librarian differentiates instruction to support scholars’ understanding of the world around them. Scholars are provided the opportunity to interact with others that have multiple perspectives on the topics within the standards. Mrs. Philbeck implements inclusion competencies in many ways. One example would be how she develops reading paths for students. She makes sure each of her students work with multiple resources to gain the knowledge needed to complete difficult task given. Mrs. Philbeck reaches out to the community so scholars can use resources they may not have at home or around them. She collaborates with classroom teachers to create novel studies so the scholars can learn about diverse perspectives. She provides professional development so the classroom teachers understand how to use a variety of resources to help each of their scholars. Mrs. Philbeck has a