What is the eXchange at Innovation Academy?
Short Answer
We are an uncommon learning commons!
Long Answer
The library is the heart of the school, and it’s presence at IA will help anchor us around knowledge, expression, and collaboration. Let go of your previous notions that school libraries are book repositories as we use this multifunctional learning resource center and its staff to support a wide range of learning activities and meet the needs of the students, staff, parents and the community. With an instructional technology and literacy expert leading along two amazing media parapros, our library and staff members will encourage IA to
Truly our space will be a reflection of the personalities and ever-changing needs of the IA students and staff. We are here to support you in any way we can.
We are an uncommon learning commons!
Long Answer
The library is the heart of the school, and it’s presence at IA will help anchor us around knowledge, expression, and collaboration. Let go of your previous notions that school libraries are book repositories as we use this multifunctional learning resource center and its staff to support a wide range of learning activities and meet the needs of the students, staff, parents and the community. With an instructional technology and literacy expert leading along two amazing media parapros, our library and staff members will encourage IA to
- Create inclusive collections that acknowledge and celebrate diverse experiences and provide instructional opportunities to empower learners as effective users and creators of information and ideas
- Partner with you to design and implement curricula and authentic assessments that integrate elements of deeper learning, critical thinking, information literacy, digital citizenship, creativity, innovation, and the active use of technology
- Encourage and facilitate IA students to become increasingly self-directed as they create digital products of their learning that engage them in critical thinking, collaboration, and real-world problem solving
- Facilitate Personalized Professional Learning
- Strive towards Equitable Digital Access
- Cultivate partnerships within the school and local community to promote engagement and a community of learners
- Provide flexible spaces that promote inquiry, creativity, collaboration, and community
Truly our space will be a reflection of the personalities and ever-changing needs of the IA students and staff. We are here to support you in any way we can.
Why is the X such an integral part to the eXchange?
X is a paradoxical and powerful letter.
For our space, the X represents an unknown quantity (or a variable to our mathematics friends). This space is meant to be shaped and adapted to the individual needs of our students, staff, and community. Our space is infinite because it is always morphing to those needs.
While infinite, the X also represents location. Our library is the heart of the school, both physically and figuratively. Whether you think of us like a treasure map and X marks the spot or just a mark along your journey, we are located here to serve and help you.
For our space, the X represents an unknown quantity (or a variable to our mathematics friends). This space is meant to be shaped and adapted to the individual needs of our students, staff, and community. Our space is infinite because it is always morphing to those needs.
While infinite, the X also represents location. Our library is the heart of the school, both physically and figuratively. Whether you think of us like a treasure map and X marks the spot or just a mark along your journey, we are located here to serve and help you.
What is your mission and vision for the space?
Our mission at the eXchange at Innovation Academy is to prepare our students for tomorrow's challenges in alignment with Innovation Academy's mission and vision statement.
Our uncommon library learning commons is an innovative space in which students ask questions, create new learning experiences, and collaborate to deepen their knowledge of the curriculum and the world around them. It is a welcoming space in which students explore, where they become the creators of information rather than just consumers, a space that promotes a community of learners, and provides a fluid, flexible learning space which offers challenging learning opportunities for all learners.
We will serve as the school’s physical and virtual center for active and engaged learning. Utilizing the learning commons model, the transformed library media center will support student achievement and the curriculum through project-based, inquiry-based instruction, individual investigation, and innovative thinking, with a focus on developing literacies for the information age and the digital economy.
Our uncommon library learning commons is an innovative space in which students ask questions, create new learning experiences, and collaborate to deepen their knowledge of the curriculum and the world around them. It is a welcoming space in which students explore, where they become the creators of information rather than just consumers, a space that promotes a community of learners, and provides a fluid, flexible learning space which offers challenging learning opportunities for all learners.
We will serve as the school’s physical and virtual center for active and engaged learning. Utilizing the learning commons model, the transformed library media center will support student achievement and the curriculum through project-based, inquiry-based instruction, individual investigation, and innovative thinking, with a focus on developing literacies for the information age and the digital economy.