Getting Started with Library Centers
Explore library centers as a framework to create more engaging and effective learning spaces in your school library.
Could your library become a dynamic learning environment?
Yes! We can help you make it happen!
We know how you feel because we’ve been in your shoes. This course is for you if you struggle with classroom management, feel like your library instruction could be more effective, and want your stakeholders to understand that you are an educator, not a babysitter.
We changed our school libraries with engaging, standards-based library centers. In this course, we’ll show you how you can, too!
Course Curriculum
Click on a module below to open that lesson in the course.
Intro and Why Use Library Centers?
What makes a Library Center?
Lessons
Components of a Library CenterWhen? – Library Class Timing
How? – 3 Ways to "Do" Library Centers
How? – Library Center Examples
Course details:
$42.00
2 hours of video content
12 free library centers & planning sheets included
Professional development certificate available
Asynchronous
Meet your instructors:
Cari White / Library Learners
Cari has taught for 19 years in Texas, 17 as a teacher-librarian and currently works as a teacher-author. She created the library centers model and wrote the book, The Centered School Library: Engaging Every Learner with Library Skills Centers.
Collette Jakubowicz / Mrs. J in the Library
Collette has been a teacher-librarian for over 15 years at an elementary school in Pennsylvania. She has used library centers for 9 years, and she currently works as a teacher-author, librarian mentor, and conference presenter.
Buy today, and complete this course on your schedule!
You’ll get immediate access to the course videos and bonus handouts to get started right away.
Here’s what other school librarians say about this helpful course!
“This course was very helpful in getting me to understand how to get started with library centers and what method would work best for me. Finally, the center examples were great! Students will be able to practice cooperation, collaboration, reading and other skills while working in centers.”
Beth Ferguson
“So many great ideas for centers and helped me wrap my brain around how to implement them.”
Debra Reynolds
“It will enable me to include centers in my library and be organized about it.”
Michelle Crain
“I will be able to use this course to help me start a more structured system of library centers in this coming school year. I am excited about adding new features to our library and hope to incorporate them with some or all of my classes.”
Debbie Unruh