Supporting You: Leading Learning as a Catalyst for Change

November 14, 2018 Web Editor Leading Learning, Professional Learning, Vol. 2 No. 3, Fall 2018 0

Leading Learning Catalyst for Change

An update from the CSL Leading Learning Committee

So your principal has asked you to investigate the benefits of a library learning commons (LLC). Where do you start?

You have been working towards an LLC approach for a few years now but you are not sure of the impact. How can you measure your progress? What’s making a difference?

You are taking a school librarianship course. Where can you find additional professional learning support?

You are an instructor or consultant for school library professionals. Where do you find reliable up-to-date professional learning materials?

Your administration believes in basing all new school initiatives on sound research. How do you go about conducting teacher research at the school level?

You have visited a dynamic school library LLC in your district and you are keen to jump on board. Where do you start?

You are an administrator in a new school. How do you help move the school library to a learning commons approach?

Look no further, Leading Learning has just what you need.

Supporting You: Leading Learning as a Catalyst for Change

The CSL Leading Learning Committee have developed a new section – Supporting You – on the Leading Learning website, designed to assist schools and school library learning commons professionals with the many ways Leading Learning can drive school-wide improvement. Leading Learning is a catalyst for igniting the design of futures-oriented learning. The document positions the school library learning commons as critical to innovative pedagogical approaches for schools today and tomorrow.

This section is divided into four sections to address specific professional needs:

Measurement & Growth
For Review and Goal Setting

 

Professional Learning
For Expertise and Leadership

 

Teacher Action Research
For Implementation and Sustainability

 

Implementation Guide
For Transition to a School Library Learning Commons

 

Browse though each section to get an overview then dig deeper into the sections that interest you the most. Each section is rich with many practical approaches and downloadable tools as well as real implementation examples from schools and districts in Canada. We hope Supporting You will assist in the development and sustainability of the LLC approach and will be valuable for ongoing professional learning and designing site-based research.

How has Leading Learning inspired your work and professional learning? Please share with us so we can add more examples of Leading Learning in Action in each section of Supporting You. Contact us here.