Standard: Facilitating Collaborative Engagement to Cultivate and Empower and Community of Learners
Theme: Vision for Learning
Growth Phase: Established
Growth Indicator: LLC drives school wide collaborative teaching and learning.
An Ontario teacher-librarian creates a “menu” of collaboration approaches for partner teachers in the LLC supported by reflections on collaboration to inspire ways they can collaborate in the LLC and includes the link to the Leading Learning standard “Facilitating Collaborative Engagement to Cultivate and Empower a Community of Learners”.
Brown, J. (2020). Collaboration in the LLC. Retrieved from https://sites.google.com/pdsb.net/castle-oaks-library-learning-c/for-staff/collaboration-menu
This British Columbia school district site was designed by a committee of Surrey teacher-librarians. It presents the vision and detailed goals/plans for school LLCs. Included are outlines and examples for instructional practices in curricular areas, digital resources, teacher-librarian support sections and more.
https://surreyschools.ca/page/259/library-learning-commons Surrey Schools. (2020). Surrey Schools Library Learning Commons (LLC).
This concise LLC guide handbook includes LLC program goals/common beliefs, staffing, collection development, challenged materials procedures, instructional practices, professional support and much more along with basic library managerial functions. Created collaboratively by Yukon Department of Education the Yukon Teacher- Librarians’ Sub-Association.
Yukon Department of Education. (2019). Yukon School Library Learning Commons Handbook. Retrieved from http://resourceservices.yukonschools.ca/uploads/1/0/5/0/105019613/sllc_handbook_december_2019.pdf