Standard: Advancing the Learning Community to Achieve School Goals
Theme: Planning for School Improvement
Growth Phase: Leading
Growth Indicator: LLC leadership team develops and implements school improvement initiatives that are a model for future-oriented learning.
The Ontario Library Association (OLA) provides a collaborative web space for the purpose of implementing the vision of Together for Learning.
Ontario Library Association. (2014). How does the learning commons philosophy and practice relate to standards for school improvement? Together for learning: School libraries and the emergence of the learning commons: creating and transforming physical and virtual learning spaces. http://togetherforlearning.ca/implementation/physical-and-virtual-space/
Explore the Applied Design Skills & Technologies (ADST) section of this British Columbia (BC) school district’s LC website. Includes the link to BC’s new curriculum and a summary of the big ideas from the ADST curriculum. Websites, how-to videos, apps, and more are linked to resources for coding, bloxels, computational thinking, robotics, and more including “unplugged activities” for computer science studies.
https://sites.google.com/view/surreycentrellc/adst-resources
Surrey Centre Elementary Learning Commons. (2020). ADST Applied Design Skills & Technologies
A secondary teacher-librarian in the Surrey, British Columbia, School District shares superb specific and targeted LLC goals founded on the Canadian School Libraries (CSL) document Leverage Your LLC: Pandemic Partner for Learning and the inquiry question “How can schools maintain critical SLLC benefits during pandemic times?”. Includes web site example, growth indicators, actions, process, photos.
Gleeson, J. (March 3, 2021). Goal Setting with CSL: An Informed Approach. Canadian School Libraries Journal 5(1). Retrieved from https://journal.canadianschoollibraries.ca/goal-setting-with-csl-an-informed-approach/
The autonomous and collective natures of educational professional development are discussed by an elementary teacher-librarian in Campbell River, British Columbia as she reflects to find balance in various types of professional development with the challenge of the pandemic inherent.
Armstrong, L. (March 3, 2021). Professional Development: What Does It Mean to You? Canadian School Libraries Journal 5(1). Retrieved from https://journal.canadianschoollibraries.ca/professional-development-what-does-it-mean-to-you/
A new teacher-librarian in a K-7 British Columbia school reflects upon her past cultural mis-understandings and strives to create a vision for how teacher librarians could create inclusive spaces and collections and also engage in social justice practices every day. To ensure the LLC is a safe place for all, she lists 10 practical actions to take to support social justice and writes about her experiences with social justice in her first year as teacher-librarian.
Bunker, B. (2022, May 18). Teacher-Librarians as Active Allies. Canadian School Libraries Journal 6 (2). Retrieved from https://journal.canadianschoollibraries.ca/teacher-librarians-as-active-allies/