ACE; Accelerating Campus Excellence Librarian – Elementary School​/Middle School

Librarian – Elementary School/Middle School

Position Purpose

Directs the operation of the school library/media center. Provides services and resources that allow students to develop skills in locating, evaluating, synthesizing, and using information to solve problems. Serves as teacher, materials expert, and curriculum adviser to ensure that library/media center is involved in instructional programs of the school.

• Prepares, justifies, and administers the school library program budget to support specific program goals.
• Establishes processes and procedures for selection, acquisition, circulation, resource sharing, and other activities that ensure appropriate resources are available when needed.
• Shares with the learning community policies concerning issues such as materials selection, circulation, reconsideration of materials, copyright, privacy, and acceptable use.
• Collaborates with teachers and students; designs and teaches engaging inquiry, learning experiences, and assessments that incorporate multiple literacies and foster critical thinking.
• Evaluates and encourages the use of existing and emerging technologies to engage students, improve learning, and provide 24/7 access to digital information resources for the entire learning community.
• Collects and analyzes data to improve instruction, and to demonstrate correlations between the school library program and student achievement.

• Pulls small groups of students for high-impact, data-driven intervention aligned to campus goals for accelerating student progress.
• Collaborates with teachers and campus leaders to identify students in need of additional support and delivers structured literacy and/or content-based intervention aligned to classroom instruction.
• Uses progress-monitoring data to adjust intervention plans, track student growth, and ensure accelerated outcomes.
• Plans and delivers library lessons that intentionally reinforce grade-level TEKS, classroom learning objectives, and the district’s Instructional Planning Calendars (IPC).
• Partners with teachers to co-plan and co-teach lessons that extend and deepen classroom learning, ensuring the library program functions as an integrated component of the instructional program.
• Ensures all library programming, resources, and instructional activities support ACE expectations for rigorous, aligned, and engaging instruction.
• Actively contributes to the campus’ ACE model by extending learning opportunities, providing timely academic support, and maintaining a relentless focus on student achievement.
• Uses instructional best practices, including modeling, guided practice, and checks for understanding, to ensure all students can access and master grade-level content.

• Follows established safety procedures and techniques to perform job duties including lifting and climbing.
• Corrects unsafe conditions in work area and promptly reports any conditions that are not immediately correctable to supervisor.

• All Fort Worth ISD employees must maintain a commitment to the District’s mission, vision, and strategic goals.
• Exhibits high professionalism, standards of conduct and work ethic.
• Demonstrates high quality customer service; builds rapport/relationship with the consumer.
• Demonstrates cultural competence in interactions with others; is respectful of co-workers; communicates and acts as a team player; promotes teamwork; responds and acts appropriately in confrontational situations.

• Performs all job-related duties as assigned and in accordance to the Board rules, policies and regulations. All employees are expected to comply with lawful directives in rare situations driven by need where a team effort is required.

• Knowledge of applicable federal and state laws regarding education, as well as District policies and procedures.
• Knowledge of computers, peripherals, Web 2.0 applications, and commercially available electronic resources.
• Knowledge of current teaching methods and educational pedagogy, as well as differentiation of instruction necessary to create effective and productive student-centered learning…