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Visit to Southland Schools
May 15, 2008 08:15 AM | General, Children’s ServicesMichael Scott, Assistant Director
On May 13, 2008, I had the opportunity to visit the Southland Elementary Media Center in Rose Creek and Southland Middle/High School in Adams. I met with Mike Johnson, Southland's District Wide Media Specialist and Dean of Students for Southland Elementary. I also met Barb Felten, the parprofessional for the media center. Mike gave me the grand tour of the media center which includes the Rebel Reading Roost, a loft with soft beanbag chairs for students to crawl up in and read. The "roost" was built by parents of elementary students and it was actually in use during my visit. In fact, if you check out the photos on SELCO's Flickr site, you can see what the roost looks like.
One of the areas that I found of interest was the collection of books that were set aside for the Accelerated Reader program. This is a reading program that several schools in our region use to help boost student reading achievement. At Southland Elementary and also at the Southland Middle/High School Media Centers, books that have an "AR" score are place in a separate collection and the actual AR score is placed on the spine. These titles can be searched in the SELCO Catalog.
Here's a picture of Mike and me:
Later that day I went over to the Southland Middle/High Media Center. If you have never been to this media center, it is worth a visit! It is certainly a beautiful place and the staff and students are proud of their space. I met Norma Hoffman, who is the paraprofessional for the middle/high school media center. Norma is working on the annual school media center report for the district and so we had a review session with the report to go over some of the questions to understand what needed to be entered into the boxes. Here's a picture of Norma, hard at work during my visit:
Thank you to Mike, Barb, & Norma for allowing me to visit your media centers!
