Elementary Library and Digital Learning Specialist

Job Goal: - To ensure that students and staff are effective users of ideas and information technology - To empower students to be critical thinkers, enthusiastic readers, skillful researchers, effective users of technology, ethical users of information, and responsible digital citizens - To align the Library Media Center with the mission, goals, and objectives of the school and district Job Description: - Collaborates to design and teach approaches towards experiential learning that incorporate inquiry learning, critical thinking and self-assessment - Collaborates with the district Elementary Technology Integration Specialist, the other elementary library and digital learning specialist, and classroom teachers - Teaches K-5 students MA DLCS and ISTE standards - Fosters a creative, flexible environment so that the Library Media Center is an essential part of the learning community - Evaluates, promotes, and uses existing and emerging technologies to support teaching and learning - Develops, maintains, and oversees print, digital, and technological resources as part of the school collections - Teaches media and information literacy skills - Promotes the ethical use of information: copyright, fair use, and licensing of intellectual property - Maintains library materials, including circulation, purchasing, and culling - Position is shared between 2 elementary schools