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TL10.2p1-9 The Teaching Librarian Volume 10, no. 2 37 schools. It mobilized the whole school to pro- mote a landmine awareness campaign. Also, we engaged the school in a project about edu- cation and schools in Afghanistan. Students in an ESL EO class wrote about the schools in each of their home countries, and then com- pared them to the schools in Afghanistan. Together with Richard Swandel, their teacher, and an adult ESL teacher contact in the school, we organized events (Afghan fashion show, Rideau Flea Market, a school-wide assembly) to raise awareness and funds ($2000.) to send to Habibullah High School in Afghanistan. Creating authentic learning opportunities where students must write and speak for real audiences such as TV and radio stations, school wide assemblies, and the community is exciting. TTLL:: Would you like to share your partner- ships with and for school libraries? My first and most treasured partner was Patricia Irving, as I mentioned before. Having a principal's support and encouragement as well as that of many teachers, such as Richard, is key to developing partnerships. Sage Youth is a non-profit corporation provid- ing free literacy, academic and life skills to high needs children from 5 - 18. I helped to develop this formal partnership between Sage Youth and Rideau H.S. We identified 12 stu- dents who were very new to Canada and they work with Sage mentors three days a week on Literacy skills. This was a formal extension of the after-school literacy program that we run. We selected motivated and capable students to mentor many of our ELD students in an after school literacy program. Through friend- ly contact between volunteer teachers, stu- dent mentors, and participating students, these new Canadians learned simple life skills and literacy skills. The community sponsor is the Catholic Immigration Service Reception House, a shelter for government-sponsored refugees, so it becomes a three-way partner- ship for student success. Another partnership involves Industry Canada's LearnCanada program, a federally run program to bring broadband internet and video-conferencing capabilities to schools in Canada. Through my Board, I was seconded to LearnCanada to be a part of this formal part- nership, which led to events such as the Landmines Day and a formal partnership through a project-based learning class. Achieving success meast that we now have the technology and the student body to lead us in new directions - the latest being a stu- dent-designed civics course! This piece of authentic learning involved students creating Powerpoint sections and authentic products for every aspect of the course. Introduction to Canada was brought alive through pictures of the Parliament buildings and other sites in Ottawa. Students presented this to many adult ESL classes throughout the Board. Doctors Without Borders was a featured NGO and these civics students enlightened our World Issues students and went into many elemen-