The cuts to the DLC really don't make sense when paired with the guiding principal "Creating greater equity across SD57 schools." Having resources housed at the DLC means that they can be accessed by teachers at any school. Without this, smaller schools with smaller budgets would have much less access to resources. These resources include novel sets, technology kits, sets of books about local Indigenous groups and languages, etc. The technology/maker kits are especially great because many of those resources are very expensive and wouldn't otherwise be available. For example, the kits with Dash Robots ($3000), Makey Makeys (~$1000), Hydraulics kit (~$1000) and other expensive resources like Snap Circuits, magnatiles, keva blocks, and K'nex. There are also tools for woodworking, Without the DLC, schools would be responsible for purchasing these things themselves if teachers wanted to use them. Many of these kits are for specific grades and it makes way more sense to have them borrowable by teachers from any school. The DLC also facilitates the borrowing and transfer of materials between schools and it looks like the cuts would eliminate this as well.
The DLC supplies teachers with materials that the District owns so schools don’t have too. They are also very involved with school libraries. They facilitate group orders for books and other materials, and then catalog the items for all the schools in the district. That is a big saving for all the teacher librarians. It also maintains the integrity of the district data base since all of the identical items are catalogued exactly the same. If you contact Joseph Jeffrey at the DLC he could probably give you more information. He is in charge over there.
The cuts to the DLC really don't make sense when paired with the guiding principal "Creating greater equity across SD57 schools." Having resources housed at the DLC means that they can be accessed by teachers at any school. Without this, smaller schools with smaller budgets would have much less access to resources. These resources include novel sets, technology kits, sets of books about local Indigenous groups and languages, etc. The technology/maker kits are especially great because many of those resources are very expensive and wouldn't otherwise be available. For example, the kits with Dash Robots ($3000), Makey Makeys (~$1000), Hydraulics kit (~$1000) and other expensive resources like Snap Circuits, magnatiles, keva blocks, and K'nex. There are also tools for woodworking, Without the DLC, schools would be responsible for purchasing these things themselves if teachers wanted to use them. Many of these kits are for specific grades and it makes way more sense to have them borrowable by teachers from any school. The DLC also facilitates the borrowing and transfer of materials between schools and it looks like the cuts would eliminate this as well.
The DLC supplies teachers with materials that the District owns so schools don’t have too. They are also very involved with school libraries. They facilitate group orders for books and other materials, and then catalog the items for all the schools in the district. That is a big saving for all the teacher librarians. It also maintains the integrity of the district data base since all of the identical items are catalogued exactly the same. If you contact Joseph Jeffrey at the DLC he could probably give you more information. He is in charge over there.