Standard: Advancing the Learning Community to Achieve School Goals
Theme: Principal Collaborative Role
Growth Phase: Evolving
Growth Indicator: Principals ensure that all teachers, including the teacher-librarian/LLC teacher, have the opportunity to work collaboratively.
As part of a district and university supported collaborative inquiry project, a teacher-librarian and classroom teachers in a K-8 public school document how they “examined the impact of various ways of eliciting collaboration between the teacher-librarian and classroom teacher and how that impacts the attitudes and willingness of classroom teachers to collaborate with the teacher librarian.” With principal support including common planning time for teachers to plan with the teacher-librarian, and district and university study support, the research project was implemented to determine how “an inviting, accessible learning commons space” and “opportunities provided for collaboration” impact student information literacy skills. Teachers who planned with the teacher-librarian expressed interest to continue the following year and felt that both they and their students had benefited positively from the experience.
Hoffman Sartor, T., Martinovic, D., Adeyemi, A., Hartley, I. & Seslija, S. (2017). GECDSB and University of Windsor Collaborative Inquiry Project: Coronation Public School. Retrieved from