New School! New School Year! New...

...Learning Commons!!!

The library as you once knew it is no more, GCS families. The 2017-2018 school year has brought us a new 21-century school building, a new school name, and joined two cherished schools into one dream. The clean slate to design and construct a new school inspired us to take on the name Learning Commonsfor our new school library. It is expected that it will take some getting used to hearing and referring to our library as the Learning Commons, but here is why we changed the name.

A Learning Commons is a school learning community where learners can use the best resources and technologies to participate in active learning and collaborative thinking while building their personal expertise. Our Learning Commons features technology rich spaces with flexible seating for large and small group collaboration or individual learning; areas for quiet reading, writing, and reflection; bookcases of books for leisure reading or research; and a future makerspace to include a Lego wall and supplies to create, build, make, and innovate. Every student's future looks bright at GCS's Learning Commons!

Along with our new school mission, we have a new mission at the Learning Commons:

The mission of the GCS Learning Commons is to nurture young minds into critical thinkers with digital citizenship skills who develop a desire to be lifelong learners in the technological world by supplying diverse collections of enriching resources for informational needs and providing services that facilitate the learning and teaching needs of our students and teachers while supporting the Diocesan standards.