Inquiry Post 1 – Learning Commons District/School/Collaboration

It was a good day today. I really enjoyed having the face to face time to collaborate and begin to build a framework for our inquiry. Initially I had trouble choosing what I want to as I am forming a picture in my head of where I want to go with my learning. Initially I joined a great group of ladies who have huge range of knowledge and teaching practice in the topic of Inquiry. I was first introduced to Inquiry at the BCTLA conference in October and was intrigued by the mode Points of Inquiry. I realized after our group discussion that I wanted to go out a little further into the big picture of Coquiltlam School District which is implementing the Learning Commons Model  for the District. I will be exploring this concept and how my school might fit into this model. After 23 years in education I truly believe that we need to collaborate on a larger scale so that we can more easily implement a framework that allows us as Teacher Librarians to collaborate with our district. As each member of our group has formed at least 2 points of inquiry for the Learning Commons, I would like to explore the broad topic of Collaboration and roles of Teacher Librarian. As I am researching that collaboration theme in the Learning Commons Model. I am looking forward to todays collaboration.
** Just a note that I will be making most of my blog posts on the morning before class. My brain works better before class that after 