Learner Centered Literacy

• Since 2000 - organized and facilitated monthly Book of the Month Club selections and corresponding monthly discussion meetings, held during L & L

• Utilize a genre centered system of organization system for our Fiction section of the Library

• Utilize a school-wide WallyCrate “subscription box’ program

• Spring of 2022 -adopted Beanstack, a digital way to create customized reading challenges and for students to log their reading minutes. Since 2023, we offer a 9th and 10th grade reading challenge along with a summer reading minutes and book challenge. 

• Fall 2022 - implemented a "Daily 5" program in library study hall - includes ACT questions, resource highlights, book trailers, read alouds, puzzles, brainteasers, digital breakouts etc. to enhance multiple student literacy skills

• Fall 2023 - Library staff works with team to establish schoolwide ACT vocabulary initiative.  All teachers on rotating schedule to teach students ACT frequency vocabulary words in context.

• Fall 2023/Fall of 2024 - students started competing in the annual state-wide Battle of the Books competition.

• Ongoing - adopt and curate diverse collections of materials and resources 

2024-2029

• Expand the use of SORA by both students and staff

• Increase promotion of areas of collection to relevant course teachers

• Update the WUHS collection development policy

• Continue programs that promote circulation of library materials