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Putting It All Together
Use the ideas from these pages to plan your strategy for developing a culturally relevant and responsive school library learning commons.
Why does culturally relevant and responsive practice matter in our school library learning commons?
Use this PDF as a diagnostic tool to help establish needs in the Learning Commons to be addressed and as a catalysts for discussions with Learning Commons leadership teams, staff meetings and other study groups and training courses for school library professionals.
View and Download this Diagnostic Tool (PDF)
Ensuring and Sustaining Cultural Relevance and Responsiveness in the School Library Learning Commons
Use Leading Learning: Standards of Practice for School Library Learning Commons in Canada as a framework for setting goals, planning actions, and determining success criteria.
View and Download the Organizer
Explore Leading Learning Standards and Themes
Time to Make Room Poster: Your Guide to Ensuring Cultural Relevance in the SLLC
Inspired by the article Time to Make Room in The Teaching Librarian (Ontario School Library Association, Vol. 25 No. 2, January 2018), this poster provides a powerful and inspiring guide to ensuring cultural relevance in the school library learning commons.
The poster is optimized to print at 18″x24″, ready to display prominently at your school.
Read the article that inspired the poster: Brown, J. & Mulcaster, M. (2018). Time to Make Room. Teaching Librarian 25(2). Ontario School Library Association. (Shared with permission.)
Additional Resources
We’ve found some useful tools and resources from other organizations that may enrich your planning.
Jael Richardson Keynote Sketch: Beyond Diversity and the Power of Libraries
Author Jael Richardson delivered the school library spotlight session at the OLA Super Conference 2018. Artist Liisa Sorsa of ThinkLink Graphics captures Jael Richardson’s ideas visually in this keynote sketch.
Poster: First People’s Principles of Learning
The First Nations Education Steering Committee (FNESC) in British Columbia has created this poster presenting First People’s Principles of Learning. Explore more classroom resources from FNESC.
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