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 Provide small actionable steps for school leaders to begin to move their learning
environments toward the ideal.
 As budget permits, support proposals from schools for select classrooms to
implement learning space revisions.

Reimagining the Library Media Center as the Learning Commons

Infographic Source: http://futureready.org/about-the-effort/librarians/

Library Media Centers should be the model Future Ready Classroom. Over the past decade,
school librarians have redesigned their physical spaces, library collections, and pedagogy to
support learning in the digital age. The District has removed entire print reference sections
to make way for charging stations, Makerspaces, and other collaborative work spaces.
School librarians are embracing mobile learning and digital publishing. School librarians
have taken a lead role in teaching digital citizenship and reducing incidents of cyberbullying.
But these have been grassroots efforts and limited in scope. In order to meet the needs of
digital learners and create future ready students, every media center in the District needs to
be remodeled into a flexible, collaborative, technology-rich learning space.

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