While individual, quiet learning has long been a part of the school library experience, now school libraries strive to support collaboration, too.
Furniture and tables can be moved and regrouped to support small or large group collaboration. School libraries lead the way for technology use, curating media and technology to engage students through computers, tablets, virtual reality goggles, and robots.
S. C. Lee Junior High reading interventionist Sky Densman said librarian Sandra Carswell designed a research project for sixth-grade history teachers.
“Mrs. Carswell had digital and paper-based research options and made lessons where learners of all levels and abilities could participate,” Densman said. “I…