Learner Centered Literacy
Inspires and supports the reading lives of both students and teachers
Creates inclusive collections that acknowledge and celebrate diverse experiences and provide instructional opportunities to empower learners as effective users and creators of information and ideas.
Current Practices & Artifacts
Reading Motivational Program at the elementary
"Caught You Reading" at the high school
Helps to promote reading program with middle school reading teacher
Provides flexibility and variety in the library collection (multiple forms of reading materials, multiple forms of devices to read from are provided throughout the district, various genres within the fiction collection, narrative non-fiction, informational non-fiction, graphic novels, local materials, reference, digital and print magazines/newspapers and journal articles)
Enormous collection of digital resources throughout the district
HUGE Makerspace collection within and available to everyone in the district
Possible Areas For Growth
Continue looking at the diversity of our library collections
Work (more) with middle school staff to incorporate and foster a reading culture
Promote ebooks and audiobooks and increase their circulation with patrons
Create a site that collects/compiles teaching guides and resources for library books we have in our collections
Work with middle school staff to increase the use of library resources/staff so that it gives students access to the library and its resources at the point when it is needed
Although library programming is not currently tied directly to all areas of the curriculum, future initiatives can address these gaps as collaborative partnerships are fostered
Develop a survey for students and staff to find out what they need and want from a library and what they feel they aren't getting from it right now, but need to be successful