 Wonderful. Well, hello everybody. Hello and welcome and we're so happy that you're joining us tonight in a bit of an experimental presentation the way we're approaching our webinar video webinar series so great that you're doing that and we'll get right into it. Welcome everybody. So this is Linda and I just like to say that we're glad to have so many people that have joined us for today and hopefully we'll find out where you are all from later on as well as we move along. In this series. Bite biting into the learning Commons. We hope to provide you with ideas tools and activities for developing and sustaining your learning Commons. Yes. And as I sort of referred to this will be done over a series of two webinars and five five minute video bites that we've put together and that you will be able to access in between the webinars and use as you see fit. The way that you can watch the video clips or bites and share the ideas from the learning guides will be on your own schedule. Later on near the end of our presentation tonight. Wanda will go over how to do this and give you all the links and support that she always gives everyone. Thank you Wanda. And we'll pick this pick it up again how it's going to work a little later on. So today though we wanted to start with an overview of what is a learning Commons. So we all kind of have the same picture as you get into the videos. How do schools develop a shared learning Commons vision. What is the learning Commons. We're going to talk a little bit about learning Commons teams tonight. And as I said we're then going to introduce the learning Commons video bites. So in part two, you will see that we will be gathering and sharing evidence that the learning Commons is making a difference to student learning through photos and other sharing information that you will want to see this on the date Monday May 29 from all of the participants in our session. I would like to emphasize that you need to make sure that you register in part two or part two webinar so that you can join in with us and share in our celebration of the gathering of evidence that the learning Commons are making a difference. And Wanda will send this link after today as she had said previously. So who is participating today. To help us we're going to ask you to use your check mark tool, or you can use the whatever marker tool. And we'd like to know what division you're in if you're in primary middle school division to or high school and what your role is. If you want you can also add. I know Judy we were thinking we'd like to know if you're out of province from Alberta. So if you want to add I don't know maybe a little star or something just or even put the province or from like go and T for Ontario. We'd like to know if we have some people from out of province as well. Wow. Judy we've got quite a mixture here. We've got other which would be interesting to know what other are. If you want to put in the chat that'd be nice if you want to declare who you are in terms of other if you're a consultant to her. Something else that Oh good learning Commons facilitator wonderful. And we have someone from Newfoundland Judy. There's a librarian there from Newfoundland. Thank you looks like we have to from Newfoundland. Wonderful. Right we have a wonderful picture here of our participants as well as a wonderful picture of all of the people that are involved in the school library learning Commons teams. Thank you for that information. We have someone that's in the chat area there Judy that has said that they're from New Brunswick welcome. This is going to be a very exciting webinar. Super. Glad we can have this kind of platform so that we can connect. Okay. I would like to point out that we've been framing our webinars around essential conditions for the success of anything like the learning Commons. And we use a document called the essential conditions with a self assessment framework that we have used in these earlier webinars so the overall guide we use was developed in Alberta to implement new curriculum initiatives like the learning Commons policy. I believe we're still the only province with an actual learning Commons policy. So seven conditions were deemed essential for successful implementation. And those would be having a shared vision and the leadership and the team aspect which we will talk about tonight. Research and evidence which is Linda said we'll be looking at on our last webinar and resources. Teacher professional growth time and community engagement which we will pick up in bits and pieces as you will see when you watch the video bites. We have adapted the self assessment checklist from the essential conditions guide with learning Commons descriptors. Wanda will include this document in your mail out from this webinar. And you can see at the bottom there there is the link so that you can go to this guide that is on this slide and look more deeply into it. Right. So what is a learning Commons the definition that we're going to work from is from leading learning, which is our Canadian school library learning Commons standards from 2014, our latest ones. And this defines a learning Commons as a whole school approach to building a participatory learning community. So everyone is involved. The library learning Commons becomes the physical and virtual collaborative learning hub of the school. It's designed to engineer and drive the future oriented learning and teaching throughout the entire school. Inquiry project and problem based learning experiences are designed as catalysts for intellectual engagement with information ideas, thinking and dialogue. Reading thrives learning literacies and technology competencies evolve and critical thinking, creativity, innovation and playing to learn are nurtured. Everyone is a learner. Everyone is a teacher working collaboratively towards excellence. And that is found in leading learning which I hope most of you are familiar with if not, we're going to flip into that for just a minute I see that one also has the link there, because leading learning is now housed in a new place. The new Canadian School Library Association, which is another website to check out. And the big exciting news about leading learning that we've been able to accomplish in the last year is a French version, digital version of leading learning print will be ready soon, but a digital version and a French website. So leading learning in both languages, both official languages now available on the Canadian School Library site, and hopefully very easy to use, very user friendly, you see there it is. It's digital manner you can go to any of the topics in the introduction or moving forward and then you can go right into the standards of practice, themes and indicators. And what's what we have been hoping for all of this time is an association is to be able to there's the standards is to be able to get she right into those examples digitally because even though there's a wonderful print copies of leading learning still available. It's so nice to be able to get into a standard and and a theme and an example and see it in action to go right on the internet, and into an exemplar and being able to connect right with with that exemplar and see what's happening in those other libraries. Mostly school libraries all across Canada. So we're very excited about that. And it is our reference point for the definition of a learning comments. So most of you are familiar with the Alberta Learning Commons policy. And this is on our next slide here. And as those of that are familiar with it, Alberta Education defines the Learning Commons in its 2014 policy, as an inclusive, flexible, learner centered, physical and virtual space for collaboration, inquiry, imagination, and play to expand and deepen learning. This policy is found on page 25 of the guide to education. Alberta Education policies are requirements to schools, but they do not dictate operations. School, school jurisdictions receive funding and decide how to allocate it to support their populations. And I did notice that we do have someone that is a jurisdiction administrator, and I just like to say that is Pam. And again, welcome Pam. And I did notice someone made a comment that we don't have any school administrators, but again, that's what these this webinar and of course the video bites will be very helpful for all of you to share with the principles and other administration. So moving along. Great. Good point, Linda. The guidelines for this policy is a very small policy as you could see are on page 79 of Alberta's guide to education, as well as online and if you're not from Alberta you might find the guidelines. We have a lot of basis in leading learning and national work to be beneficial to look at as well. The policy aligns in Alberta with our Education Ministry, what's called our competencies for 21st century learning. If you want to see what these competencies are, you can download a poster of them from Alberta Regional Professional Development Consortium or ARPDC, which CRC is part of this webinar group that we're using tonight. I wonder we'll put that in the chat and you can download a poster with all of the competencies that Alberta wants out of their students, which are very similar to the ones we are going to talk about for the learning commons. Inquiry, play, imagination, creativity, all those sorts of things also in the competencies for all of our subject areas. One of the positives is the expectations for implementing the policy are not dated and just as learning, our personal learning, it really takes different amounts of time for each school depending on where they are on a learning commons continuum of best practice. The important requirement is to begin to grow and to keep getting better. And so one is just going to take us to the Alberta Education site so that you can see the policy and you'll see there the headings around the benefits of the learning commons. And then if we scroll down, you have the support documents. There's the learning commons policy. And then you can go to the Alberta School District Initiatives, documents that we have for the province, and also documents that are national as well. So this is sort of a one-stop shopping for you to get familiar with the policies that are there to support your movement towards excellent learning commons. Right. So why do we have a learning commons policy in Alberta? I guess it came out of the fact that we had a school library policy for many years and it really needed updating. But one thing that the Alberta Education Ministry was very taken with was that research shows that students who have access to quality school library services, which a learning commons perspective enables, are more likely to exhibit advanced student achievement and literacy development. Researcher Keith Curry Lantz, whose website contains a lot of this research, asks important questions for us to think about in information and learning. So how can we ensure that students leave school learning, knowing, having learned how to learn, having learned how to know when they need information, where to find it, and how to know if it's any good or not. And Lantz was asking those questions 10 years ago. One thing that we thought we would put on here is the most recent updated little pamphlet and booklet. And it's a very nice, easy to read one on school library learning commons research. It's Scholastic's school library's work. Some of you may be familiar with the earlier versions of this, but this is the 2016 one. Juan just got the link there for you. And we hope that if you do want to look at the research or know someone that you would like to share it with, then certainly this is what we would recommend is a really good, easy to read and well put together summary. I'm just noticing, Judy, before we go on that I can see we've got some comments in the chat area. Thank you, Pam, for your comments. Yes, definitely one of our key goals and objectives for this series is to help school based administrators understand the power of excellent learning commons and moving towards that goal in their schools. And I can see we have a response here, Judy, to that there are some districts that are already are very fortunate to have administrators who do understand this transition. Thank you for your comments in the chat, by the way. Awesome. So in summary, key descriptors of a learning commons are student centered based on student learning data. Innovative experimental learning supports that cool planning, teaching, assessing, and part of the whole school plan. The other libraries, I'm flipping too fast, involves other libraries and community. And when you look at the learning commons that we have here, maybe just could put a little show of hands beside your name, how many of you already feel that you have some of these key descriptors around your learning commons. Being student centered, innovative supports that collaborative approach to teaching and learning. The whole school is involved. And again, we know involves our, our local libraries and communities. That looks pretty good, Judy. I would say wouldn't you wonderful, you've got quite a few excellent. Right. And I would add that, additionally, the learning commons is founded on those rich physical and virtual environments that are accessible, current, collaborative and flexible, and most importantly, focus on each students learning. Accessible, current, collaborative, flexible in all of those types of areas, every student, print and digital resources, physical and virtual spaces, schedules, furnishings and design. And we talk about a lot of those things very quickly in our video bites. So to develop a shared learning commons vision key descriptors are jointly established learning commons vision as part of the school plan to support the student learning outcomes, collaborate to integrate the learning commons plan within instructional programs. Each student has equitable access to a learning commons. And I think many of you have already stated that that is part of your learning commons at this time. Great. And this inspiring video that we have on here, another link that Wanda has in there for you was made by our Alberta School Learning Commons Council, or ASLC as we call it here. And it was created by students in a media design class who wanted to show what a learning commons in relation to that Alberta policy could look like across the grades. And access it from the webinar references. And hopefully you will find it interesting to watch yourself. And it may be a little something that if you do need to show someone what the policy and the real learning commons can look like, then you have this video in your arsenal. So now we're going to have a little bit of chalk time here. So thinking about how do schools develop a shared learning commons vision. So what do you think is essential in a shared learning commons vision for your school? And the way we'll use the chalkboard here, you can use the text tool. Wanda can point to that on the left there as you can see the big T. And you can type in your ideas. And if you want to put some sort of speaking to this to anything that's particularly being posted, you can do that in your in the regular chat area. But right now just using that the text tool. Let's hear what you can come up with in terms of thinking what some of those essential ingredients would be for that. So don't worry when it first gets covered up once you click and enter it, it will clear up it will go so that we can see it. So just make sure you select the enter that good learning commons committee. Definitely the knowledge of curriculum and learning outcomes. The team of like again we always think of those that are our cheer ones that the cheerleaders the ones who are dedicated people towards moving to a new vision. Students often, yes, are the ones that promote. They know what they would like to see being the clients in the school. Good collaboration. Parents definitely getting on board and maybe seeing some of those examples that are in the leading learning document. And as Judy said earlier, we have examples from all across Canada. Again asking your clients right what do they want what do they need. And yes, some sort of teacher leader. We know that the focus is on learning. And whether it's an administrator or lead teacher or teacher librarian. Yes. You want those people that really have the energy and enthusiasm. Great. Wonderful. Yes, I again we see a lot around it the collaboration. Don't we Judy. Yes, and I see someone has use of the essential conditions document to create shared understanding. It is a terrific document for that. And I highly encourage you to use it or share it with your administrators because it's very easy to use, but very complex at the same time. Really help build the shared understanding. Many of the points and bullets that we've adapted have come from that self assessment from that document. So yes, please have consider having a look at it. And no matter where you are on the continuum in your learning Commons, whether you're beginning or well into it or want to just push that edge to the future. It's a great way to do it. And, oh, yes, I like that to sharing the CSL resources. There's a lot a lot on that site. I think we're going to take you there later today, not in this webinar, certainly in in our next one. I just noticed, Judy, we do have Kathy has a question here about that there's few schools with librarians. I'm not exactly sure Kathy who you're meaning if you're meaning, you know, teacher librarians. Are you meaning someone with library science background or I would assume there would be a library technician or assistant or support staff there. But again, those staff staffing suggestions. I think you'll see that there's many different models Kathy that we do have, but you definitely want someone in there. That's a teacher as well as someone that understands the library science component of learning Commons. Okay. All right, so who leads the learning Commons Judy. Okay, and Kathy I hope this this helps a little bit too I was thinking about it as I saw your question. Leadership in the learning Commons and we saw a lot of great responses in the chat to about teams and the ad hoc teams with department heads and that that kind of thing. Leadership in the learning Commons. To make it really successful definitely it has to be team based. It's often led by a school administrator, because as is pointed out, teacher librarians are few and far between in schools. So, often it's a school administrator AP English teacher that will take up the leadership, or increasingly we're seeing teachers being called the lead learning Commons. Teachers so that they have a little more responsibility there into amass this team and get the whole school library learning Commons going. So on the team of course you want teachers that represent other teachers whether depending on the size of your school a small one elementary or going to the high schools with departments. You want your library technicians and assistance on that team. And you could include community librarians especially in schools that may or may not have too much library experience in the staff and you might want to see if your community librarian would like to come aboard or would just like to be a part of it. Students, parents and other community partners are often represented on learning Commons teams and as you can see in a lot of the examples we share in the video students are really keen to get involved and really make that learning Commons theirs and and bring it to life. And, you know, as the experts say that that leadership is team based rather than centralized in a single individual. You need the support if you are that single individual in the library learning Commons, and each school begins with the functions desirable in the learning Commons what do you want it to look like for your school. What do the standards of practice say, and then you organize the various leadership teams and functions to carry out these elements. I think at the beginning we did mention and I think there was a question about I know the administrators that were part of our webinar today, but we hope that what we do have presented with you you will be going back after our webinar webinar and sharing with your own administration. The principal support we know and nurturing of the learning Commons vision is vital for moving forward and ensuring that the learning Commons vision actions and goals are part of the whole school development plan. And as you can see we have that administration is like one of the clogs in the wheel. And then we have those educational leadership teams. And then we have the school community. And we know that it all works together the learning Commons team administration and school community. Right. Now, one thing that we have found helpful in the leading learning is the section in the glossary that outlines the various roles of learning Commons personnel. We're often asked about it and you know what role do I play on the team. What can I bring to the team what should it look like when I bring these things to the team so these basic definitions we put together for the standards. So, however, I mean you might find this useful to share you might see yourself in this team maybe some of you in one or two or three positions on this team. But what this actual team and process will look like can be very different at any given school based on your needs and your resources and I noticed someone put in there. You know an example of needs, your teacher librarian retired. What do we do what we're how do we go forward now our needs have have changed a little bit. And what are our resources to do this so in leading learning you'll also find models different models. I think there's a seven or eight of them in the appendix to for different ways to get the learning Commons going depending on what your team looks like. One thing I just like to say to Judy I'm just noticing in the chat we have a comment about people understanding the shift from library to learning Commons. I think you will find in David Lurcher's work. It really is we still have the library science and information focus. So, but we are moving into an environment that is more active learning so I just want to state I think there's some some some shift there and incorporating that technology and I think the teachers are trying to get some of those teacher leaders excited about the shift that it's not just a place where you have resources but it really is a place of learning and collaboration. I know if you want to add to that Judy or not but I'm just looking at some of the chat pieces here. No exactly and that's why the idea of the teacher librarian was good because they were both a teacher and a librarian to bring those parts together so depending on how your situation looks you may need to bring those people together from different facets. So leadership in the learning Commons is founded on key descriptors of and the following and establish learning Commons team that is in place and incorporates best practice and facilitating the learning Commons approach. It has technical and clerical supports that are provided provided so that the majority of the learning Commons teacher time is spent in co teaching and that there be ideally a teacher librarian or learning Commons lead teacher that is included in these teams. And of course we want a learning Commons support that's at the district level and to have this available for everyone and again it's nice that we do have someone that is from the district. Right. Okay we're going to take our second little break of the evening before we wrap up actually or and and take some questions. I want to rely on your expertise and your sharing of creativity and ideas around these two questions again you put them right on the screen there or in the chat as we run up might run out of a little room here on the screen. And can you identify or give us a team based on what you're experiencing who should be on your learning Commons team. No names mentioned positions and different creative ideas that you might have had. Exactly. And what will the team or what should the team what do you think the team needs to really know and understand to move this concept forward. So we'll give you a couple minutes to build our chat again. Definitely need a teacher advocate to get it going if you haven't had yes. School Council very very important and can be very supportive they definitely want the best programs and services available for their children. We've noted a library of professionals very helpful and a curriculum professional very helpful. Our library texts and assistance school administrators. Get the students in there awesome glad to see that's happening in many places. Many places and many ages the elementary kids just just love getting in there and working on that as well as the high school kids and so forth. Technology experts. Yes. The learning Commons especially when when you see and look into the virtual learning Commons VLC. The things that are happening both on site and online. I'm an expert and expertise very important. L our teacher not familiar with that term. And certainly what are the big understandings 21st century learning yes and those competencies cross curricular cross curricular cross curricular those competencies. Print versus digital digital versus virtual. This is physical virtual spaces and places very different concepts around the learning Commons. And it has to be adaptable collaborative. Yes. Big word in making the success blended learning. Found it on the needs of the students the students in your own school. And very different emphasis as we go around the country. Learning resource teacher. OK. Yeah. Exactly. Get those strategies in place that the whole team can focus on as the students work through cross curricular projects and building that shared focus bringing that collaborative focus together so everyone feels that the learning Commons is part of their work. Technology for learning. Exactly. Inquiry based learning. So all of those things part of 21st century curriculum and competencies which is what the learning Commons needs to be designed to support facilitate and further awesome work you guys. I'm noticing Judy we have a lot of chatting here in our little chat box that I wouldn't mind responding to. I think the big part about a learning Commons team really has to do I think where we saw Pam's comment about you know her her role as someone in the district is to get principles to understand this new shift with the focus on collaboration and connecting and inquiry learning in the learning Commons. Again this really is led by the educational team. I can see many of you that are support staff whether library system or technician. You know I can see that you're more more concerned of course with having those volunteers to help you with the day to day kind of client support. You know making sure that everyone has what they need when they do come into the learning Commons. But I think Judy that's our real purpose of these of the little video bites is that you have something now that you can go forward to your administrator and hopefully have them make that shift. Again we know that they need to have that understanding of their vision within the context of their school. Did you want to add anything more to that Judy when you see what's in the chat area there. I know you've been looking more at the chalkboard here. No I learned exactly the school administrator has got to grasp this vision, support it and lead it, bring those teachers in into it so that they can support the team and the library assistants and technicians because that leadership has got to show the impact on learning and why teachers need to support and be involved and work together. So that part is critical and and we're hoping that over time. I mean we do have the policy and all that sort of thing but we're hoping over time that that's the part that we can really build and and and really emphasize because I as I see in some people's comments if there's not if the teachers aren't not feeling from the the principle that this is important this is 21st century learning this is how we change and teach and and do these things, then you really feel at a loss you really don't, you know, if you don't have that teacher as an advocate or all of the teachers aren't trying to move towards this 21st century concept of learning and learning Commons, then it is very difficult. And then I do see a question there about the second webinar of some tips for advocacy, and that sort of thing so Linda and I will have to have a look at that for sure. And thank you Pam for your comment there about that Albert is fortunate to have those government documents to help and I think again. We hope that it will help everybody that's taking part in this series. Thanks for those comments everybody. Yes Lucy, sometimes it can be the opposite as I see you said there sometimes you can get the teachers on board that the administrators seem to be in a different direction or whatever or or not quite on board with what what they want so. So that's where yeah Pam is saying that we're lucky and Alberta to have the document but also maybe that districts can step up and do and take some support to. Okay, Judy, I guess we're going to have you introduce these video bites. Okay, so we're what what we're going to be looking at after this a little bit different than than having webinars all the time. We're going to Linda and I have worked with Wanda and put together five. What we call video bites and these are little YouTube videos that are no longer than maybe three to five minutes, and their themes are rethinking resources so how do we rethink that physical space that virtual space. How do we rethink the whole concept that's that many people are excited about learning commons of maker spaces. And what about how do they connect to learning in the curriculum and what about resources. We still need to have our physical and virtual print and digital collections and so how do we rethink those in a learning commons environment. And most importantly, as we're talking about how do we engage the community, because we do need to advocate for the learning commons and we do need to bring everybody together. So we've put together these video bites. And what we're we're hoping is from now until May which we hope you've all signed up for the second webinar that you will have a chance to look at these video bites. These five five minute videos come with a learning guide which we'll talk about a little bit more in a second Linda will show you the one that's that's goes with today's webinar. And we the learning guides really help to to to bring to your administrator to show them that maybe this is something we could talk about as a staff or as a learning commons team meeting, because there's different little things that we can do. And we also thought that maybe, you know, we know that you are all very very busy so we thought maybe the three to five minute video. When you have time or when you really would like to sit down and look up one of these topics would be great for your learning or reinforcing what you know, but we also thought three to five minutes is not a bad thing. If you want to try to get your principal to watch any of these or suggest that the teachers and the staff meeting watch any of them. So we're hoping that we're giving you, you know, and building on your ground knowledge today and hoping that the video bites will be something new and different way of looking at PD. And then when we come back on the 29, as Wanda will talk about to, we're hoping to see what's going on in your school, get some ideas from each other that might help us with some of our questions that we've had today. And we also Linda and I will also leave you with some tips on networking and professional development as well but those we may leave with you because we really hope that next time we'll be able to get a picture of ideas shared ideas and how you're doing in your learning comments and some things that you've put into practice. But also, as Kathy has said, we do, Linda and I are very open to your questions and what you would like us to address when we come back in a month, especially if you do watch the video bites, you may have some questions about those or those might spark a question, or you may have some other ideas in the meantime. So Wanda, I'm going to turn that over to you to explain about how the video bites work. Perfect. Thanks, Judith. Okay. So the links. Yep. Hopefully you can hear me comfortably. The links to the video bites can be found in the chat, the link at the very bottom there. And what it will look like is you'll see a screen that looks like this at the very top will be posted our current webinar that we're in now. So you can revisit that if you like with a learning guide just off to the right that you can download with some key points and some question ideas or conversation topics. And then if you just scroll down a little bit, you'll notice there are five different videos here, the physical space, virtual space, maker space. Someone was asking about that in the chat, the resource collection and engaging the community. So these are the five short videos. Each video also has a learning guide. So these could be used with a staff meeting, with a small group of people to share information. They're no longer than each one's at least under six minutes. Some are about three minutes long. So you can have a look at these videos anytime you like. And then as Judith and Linda mentioned, if these videos spark additional questions, you're welcome to send an email back. You'll receive an email with a link to this recorded webinar, as well as a link to these video bites. So you can reply back with questions. I can gather them together and share them with Linda and Judith. Feel free to do that. And then also before May 29. I mean one really exciting thing about the Learning Commons is that it does look different in each school because of the different people on the team, the different environment, physical space, all your variables are different. So it's really exciting to be able to see examples of Learning Commons in your different spaces. So if you're able to take a picture or a little video clip and you're able to share that with us, if you could send that to me, just email me and let me know what you have to share. And we can talk about the best way to get it to me, whether it's by email or Google Docs or Dropbox. And then we can share your video or picture on May 29. And maybe we'll get you to say a few words about it. So Linda and Judith, anything you'd like to add on to the video bites information? No, I don't think, don't think so right now. I think that I think everyone hopefully will be very excited by the video bites and see the power that they can be used. I think around some of their advocacy for transitioning into exemplary Learning Commons as a as leading in learning. Yeah, it's great. And as Wanda said, don't forget about the Learning Guides either because they're very concise one page that Linda is going to show you the one for today. Next, and they'd be very useful to use. Hmm. So what we have here is the is the example of our part one webinar Learning Guide and again focusing on what is a Learning Commons. And so you can see there you have the key questions around what are the desired elements of a Learning Commons, what needs to change and why. How will we get there the short range, the long range? Who will we discuss this with? What new models can we explore or demonstrate? And how will we know we have been successful and what could be observed? And again, beside it are the key understandings. And again, I think those understandings I think are really very helpful. I think for many of you that are wondering how do we get everyone on board to really understand this movement towards a Learning Commons and how we need to involve everyone in the whole school to see this as a wonderful and exciting time in the era of a School Library Learning Commons. Exactly. And there's usually two or three real real key understandings that go with either our webinars or the video bites. So I think they would be very hopefully very useful tools for you to say in just a few statements why something is critical. I noticed that Jennifer, some of you noticed that Jennifer had made a mention to having fortunate to be a library system with teacher librarians and I'm currently working with Jennifer. Her teacher, regular teacher librarian is off on a medical leave and so I'm always excited when I get to be in a school like with Jennifer. It's Lord Beaverbrook in high school in Calgary and I know that I'm encouraging Jennifer to share some of the exciting things and how the students really and teachers have really gotten involved in understanding that the environment and culture has changed. And that's what we look forward. Don't don't be Judy is is really the next webinar to see have some of that celebration and sharing of how different schools are moving forward. Right. Again, gathering and sharing evidence, whether it's in our own school or if we need it from another school, but gathering gathering and sharing that evidence that the Learning Commons is making a difference to student learning to the photos and the sharing from participants. That's exactly what we are hoping to gather next time. And, you know, I can see already in the chat, many, many good ideas going on. You know, some space spaces in some places some places that you know what what could we do. So we really do ask you just to think about are there a few photos that you we could share and that you some of you might want to talk about a little bit. The first bit of our webinar next time that might really help and support your colleagues. And I think my big question here is what are the students learning making and doing in the Learning Commons. I read there someone has a beautiful learning commons but because of money and all of that no staffing nothing happening in there. And it's such a shame because the students should be in there learning making and doing so. What are they doing what could they be doing and from their perspective, you know how can we advocate for for our students and and give them all a chance to have a wonderful learning commons in their school to help their learn. So anything like any kinds of photos those kinds of things you'd be able to send to Wanda and Wanda did we have a date where people were sending pictures especially. I think we did. I said by May 1738. Exactly yep if it's able if you're able to send them my way by May 17 or 18 that'll give us enough time to put them together in a shareable format so that would be very much appreciated. Awesome. And there's Wanda's email again and exactly and questions for us Wanda will always send them our way to and see if we can be of any help. And just before we wrap up we do have a couple of minutes to look at the chat and maybe take a question or two. But we do have the credits and references at the end of the slide. As Wanda said all of the links are live if you replay the archive webinar or you want to get into something you don't have to go on the slide they're all here. So we hope that you're using a lot of these things we hope that if if you're new to them you'll you'll dig into them again. And we really applaud the work that you're doing and trying to keep your learning commons going keep it alive and get it to the whatever stage is the next stage for you. Thank you for those students in their learning and doing wonderful things. Linda did you have anything to add. No I don't I think that, as I said, but we when we started this different approach to doing these sessions I think Judy I hope that you're all excited that you do have the following video bites that will follow up from this webinar and that we will be coming back together again. Some of the exciting things that that you are doing. I did notice that Shirley from St. John's Newfoundland has stated that they do have some develop some learning teams at one school. And that's provided some significant exciting changes surely so I hope you're able to share with some things that are happening outside Alberta. So no I just like to say thanks to everybody for joining us this afternoon and we look forward to being together again in May. Yes exactly. So I guess Wanda I think we're done for the afternoon I don't know Judy I don't see any other questions and I think as we've said that questions can be directed to you Wanda is that correct and and we can be prepared for our webinar when we come together again. Absolutely yep if there's any questions you have that you're interested in having Judith and Linda have a look at before May 29. Please send them my way I'll collect them and send them to Linda and Judith and a big thank you Linda and Judith for your flexibility and sharing your expertise with us. I know you've both spent many many many years working in the learning Commons environment so we appreciate that and and I love the fact that you really realize the realities out in the school and come up with some some ideas. Some ideas and ways that people can make it work in a quite a variety of situations so thank you for that Linda and Judith and thanks everyone for joining us tonight. Take care and we'll see you May 29 online and hopefully we'll see your pictures before that and your emailed questions.