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AASL Standards Frameworks for Learners
What are the standards that school librarians use? Take a gander at the standards published by the American Association of School Librarians and see all the learning that is going on in Messing Library!
Common Core Standards
Common Core Standards

ALA Awards
Want to know what the ALA considers the best of the best for children and young adults? Click here to see the winners of book and media awards.

Best Websites for Teaching and Learning
From the American Association of School Librarians
Best Apps for Teaching and Learning
List provided by the American Association of School Librarians

The Teachers Page from the Library of Congress website has these tools for teachers:

Primary Source Analysis Tool and accompanying Teacher’s Guides provide cornerstone guidance in teaching students to analyze primary sources and using primary sources to further learning.
Teaching with the Library of Congress Blog
Primary Source Sets: Collections of 12-18 primary sources on different topics of study, each is accompanied by a teacher’s guide with historical background and suggestions for teachers using the sources with students.

School Libraries Work! 2016 edition
A compilation of the research about the direct impact effective school libraries and school librarians have on student achievement.

An abundance of evidence strongly supports the connection between student achievement and the presence of school libraries with qualified school library media specialists. When library media specialists work with teachers to support learning opportunities with books, computer resources, and more, students learn more, get better grades, and score higher on standardized test scores than their peers in schools without good libraries.