Community Partnerships with School Libraries: Creating Innovative Learning Experiences

by Bridget Crossman

Providing a treasury of community partnership opportunities and resources for innovative learning experiences, this title helps Future Ready Librarians to create authentic, student-centered experiences that address American Association of School Librarians (AASL) standards.

As school librarians strive to become Future Ready and meet the new AASL standards, community partnerships can help them to build innovative programs within their districts to realize their school's mission and goals.

Placing value on the importance of preparing students for the future, this book encourages librarians to "learn, leap, and grow" and form community partnerships to create learning experiences both in and outside of school. Innovative learning experiences can have a positive impact on student engagement, empathy, knowledge, skills, and local and global awareness.

This book introduces ideas, materials, resources, and a step-by-step action plan while highlighting how learning experiences meet AASL standards. A user-friendly and invaluable resource for librarians who desire to be Future Ready, it will catapult librarians to the forefront of their practice and support them as they create innovative learning experiences for their students.

216 pages, Paperback

Published June 7, 2019

Reviews

[Amanda · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was OK. The author is an elementary school librarian so the examples she details are exclusively for that age group. She does provide some ideas for adjusting for secondary level, but not a ton. The core themes of the book are good and valuable for all librarians, but there wasn't anything super enlightening for me. I would recommend it as something better for new school librarians to read.

[Susan Whitehead]

This book uses ineffective literacy methods such as leveled readers that can lead to reading failure.