Learning Standards & Program Guidelines

Learning Standards

The learning standards offer a vision for teaching and learning to both guide and beckon the school library profession as education leaders. The learning standards shape the library program and serve as a tool for school librarians to use to shape the learning of students in the school.

• Standards for the 21st-Century Learner

• Standards for the 21st-Century Learner In Action (indicators, benchmarks, model examples and assessments)

• AASL Learning Standards & Common Core State Standards Crosswalk

• Lesson Plan Database (with automatic Common Core State Standards crosswalk)

• Best Apps for Teaching & Learning

• Best Websites for Teaching & Learning

Program Guidelines

AASL's newest set of program guidelines defines the future direction of school library programs. Empowering Learners ensures that school library program planners go beyond the basics to provide goals, priorities, criteria, and general principles for establishing effective school library programs.

• Empowering Learners: Guidelines for School Library Programs

• A Planning Guide for Empowering Learners with School Library Program Assessment Rubric

• A 21st-Century Approach to School Librarian Evaluation

• Library Spaces for 21st-Century Learners: A Planning Guide for Creating New School Library Concepts

Learning4Life

The Learning4Life implementation plan was created to support states, school systems, and individual schools preparing to implement the Standards for the 21st-Century Learner and Empowering Learners: Guidelines for School Library Programs.  View the plan.

• Learning4Life Implementation Plan 

• Resources for implementation