From School Library to Library Learning Commons: A Pro-Active Model for Educational Change” (2017) summarizes the work, over three years, of two groups of Vancouver teacher-librarians — one elementary and the other secondary — engaged in teacher inquiry. The inquiry groups have described, in both personal and professional terms, the continuum of change by which a school library becomes a Library Learning Commons in BC. They have been joined by voices of teacher-librarians throughout BC who have successfully undertaken similar initiatives.

Additional Learning Commons Resources

Videos

• Learning Commons in BC (BC Ministry of Education video)
• Learning Commons – Elizabeth Rummel School (video)
• “Learning Commons Alive” Series Archived Webinars (Carol Koechlin/David Loertscher)
• From School Library to Learning Commons: A Pro-Active Model for Educational Change (2014) (Archived webinar -Gordon Powell)

Links

• Year of the Learning Commons (David Loertscher and Carol Koechlin)
• Exploring the Learning Commons Concept – 2012 Summer Institute (BCTLA)
• School Learning Commons (David Loertscher and Carol Koechlin)
• Learning Commons Facebook Page (David Loertscher)
• Library to Learning Commons (Calgary Board of Education)
• Learning Commons Transformation – Ten Steps (Ottawa Catholic School Board)
• Library to Learning Commons – OCSB (Ottawa Catholic School Board)
• Leading Learning: Standards of Practice for School Library Learning Commons in Canada (CLA)