New Canaan High School Library

New Canaan, CT United States

Education

New Canaan High School is a public school in New Canaan, CT, just 45 mile northeast of New York City. Student population is 1,300. Ninety-eight percent of NCHS students go on to four-year colleges after graduation. In 2010, the library program received the American Association of School Librarians' National School Library Program of the Year Award and the state-level equivalent from the Connecticut Association of School Librarians. The program also received honorable mentions from CoSN and ISTE. The program's strengths lie in its use of emerging technology for collaboration, communication and creativity, it's hybrid online/face-to-face instructional model, and its incorporation of s