After spending the summer aligning the AASL Standards Framework for Learners with state standards and county learner profile, author Calypso Gilstrap claims a new passion for the impact school librarians have in teaching students the workplace skills employers desire. According to research conducted recently for the Association of American Colleges and Universities, the learning priority of executives who are hiring is increasingly becoming workplace skills (like communication, critical thinking, and collaboration) over content knowledge and technical capabilities (IBO 2014). If the goal is to create graduates who are ready for citizenship and careers, our students must learn more than the content needed to pass standardized assessments. Students must practice desired workplace skills, including the ability to adapt to new technologies and to communicate, collaborate, and think, while maintaining a high level of research skills. The question is though, how to help learners develop such skills, and furthermore, how to assess them. Gilstrap writes here that she works in a middle school that offers the International Baccalaureate (IB) Middle Years Programme. Being new to the IB community, she was offered the opportunity to attend a workshop in the fall of 2018, that covered the Approaches to Learning (ATL) that the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO) endorses. This organization has long believed skills are just as important to develop and assess as content knowledge is. In support of that end, the IBO offers educational programs for schools worldwide aiming to create a better, more peaceful world. By the end of day one of the workshop, Gilstrap saw a strong correlation between the AASL Standards Framework for Learners and the IB's ATL. Here she describes some the vast and tested resources available from the IB community to help educators and learners develop and assess ATL skills that have opened a new toolbox of resources, serving as a catalyst of assessment ideas to apply to her school's new framework.