Advancing the Learning Community: Exemplar A1

Standard: Advancing the Learning Community to Achieve School Goals

Theme: Planning for School Improvement

Growth Phase: Emerging

Growth Indicator: Library Learning Commons (LLC) leadership team ensures that collections, facilities and programs are guided by school, district and provincial/territorial policies.


The Ontario Ministry of Education outlines key points on the role of the school library as a “program that can help build and transform students’ knowledge in order to support lifelong learning in our information-and knowledge-based society”.

Ontario Ministry of Education Curriculum and Resources.  (2020-2022).  Considerations for Program Planning:  The Role of the School Library.  Retrieved from https://www.dcp.edu.gov.on.ca/en/program-planning/considerations-for-program-planning/the-role-of-the-school-library