Standard: Advancing the Learning Community to Achieve School Goals
Theme: Leading Action for School and Board Improvement
Growth Phase: Emerging
Growth Indicator: Teacher-librarian/LLC teacher weaves student needs into school goals and district policies to develop LLC facilities and programs.
The Teacher Librarians of Newfoundland and Labrador (TLNL) network post a concise description of the collaborative role of the teacher-librarian in implementing five strands of a school library commons program listed as: “Engaging Multi-Literacies, Building Partnerships, Participating School Development & Advocating Leadership, Co-teaching & Instruction and Designing Flexible Learning Environments”.
Teacher Librarians of Newfoundland and Labrador (TLNL). (n.d.). The Role of the Teacher Librarian. Retrieved from https://sites.google.com/nlesd.ca/tlnl/the-role-of-the-teacher-librarian
This Ontario teacher-librarian has put the Fostering Literacies to Empower Life-Long Learners standard from Leading Learning: Standards of Practice for School Library Learning Commons in Canada into action by reviewing the implications and potential of the new Ontario Grade 9 English curriculum and exploring ways she can support new curriculum and help lead her school in the transition.
Cattrysse, J. (2025). Expanding the notion of literacy – The roles of the teacher-librarian and school library learning commons in supporting the transition of the new ENL1W curriculum. Paper presented at the Treasure Mountain Canada 8 Symposium, Toronto, Canada. https://researcharchive.canadianschoollibraries.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/TMC8_2025_Cattrysse.pdf