The Whole School Library Learning Commons: An Educator's Guide: An Educator's Guide

Introduce your teachers, librarians, and administrators to the roles and responsibilities of educators in advocating a whole school library learning commons using this step-by-step guide for creating shared learning space in your school.

• Links the use of the WSLLC to standards in education

• Presents a doable plan to implement and sustain the learning commons approach in school

• Illustrates how the WSLLC can be a means of increasing student engagement and improving academic achievement

• Provides ideas for promoting the WSLLC concept to the education community

• Offers suggestions for assessing the effectiveness of the WSLLC

• Features strategies, standards, and checklists to support the program