Engage

Engage is the final book in the six-book series, providing a culmination of knowledge and a starting point for new thinking that promotes learners' dynamic, spiral, and cyclical journey with the AASL Standards. It offers grade-band specific learner trajectories, action lists, reflective questions, strategies, policies, and resources to engage learners and school librarians and shape the school library.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 200 pages
Publication date: 30 June 2023
Publisher: American Library Association

The sixth and final installment in the captivating six-book series, Engage, serves as an anchor and a compass in the realm of the Shared Foundations, offering a profound culmination of knowledge and a fertile ground for innovative thinking that fosters learners' dynamic, spiral, and cyclical journey with the esteemed AASL Standards. Delve into Engage through the lens of the learning cycle outlined in AASL's National School Library Standards. This invaluable resource will empower school librarians to contextualize and enrich the other Shared Foundations, while equipping learners with the essential skills and understanding to engage meaningfully with reading, information, learning, and life. In order to support school librarians as they guide all learners through the intricate and rapidly evolving landscape of information, this book offers grade-band-specific learner trajectories that accompany engaging learning scenarios for each Domain within Engage. Additionally, it provides a wealth of actionable lists, reflective questions, strategies, policies, and resources to engage learners, school librarians, and shape the school library. Five cross-cutting themes—design thinking, equity, diversity, and inclusion; information quality; inquiry learning; and social-emotional learning—resonate deeply with readers, recognizing their pivotal role in ensuring Engage's relevance throughout learners' academic journeys and beyond. Furthermore, this book boasts web companion pieces that showcase professional learning scenarios, which can be replicated, modified, and adapted for use with practicing and pre-service school librarians, as well as other educators and learners.

Weight: 418g
Dimension: 253 x 179 x 16 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780838919200