Laurens County School District 55

Laurens County School District 55 will provide its teacher librarians and teachers with the training required to transform its school libraries into collaborative and self-directed inquiry-based learning communities for students. Teacher librarians will participate in professional development opportunities to learn more about cross-disciplinary and inquiry-based methods. This professional development will also incorporate mentoring opportunities and a professional learning community, which will encourage professional collaboration and support sharing best practices. The teacher librarians will facilitate workshops for district educators and form partnerships with classroom teachers. Together, school librarians and teachers will transform the District's 20th century library-media centers into 21st century learning hubs.