APS Media Services
May 2016
May is Get Caught Reading Month!
APS Media Specialists go beyond the district to Grow.Lead.Transform.
Scott ES Media Specialist, Laura Woods, gives literacy and technology a big boost!
Congratulations to Laura Woods @ Scott on receiving a $1,500 grant from the Delta Kappa Gamma Society / Elise Boylston Memorial Foundation. Laura’s grant will be used to secure books with QR codes and the database TRUEFLIX for her school.
Heritage Academy Media Specialist,Tiffany Wheeler, shares her Lexile expertise with colleagues at KSU Children's Literature Conference.
This session offered Administrators, Teachers and Media Specialists strategies to chart, implement and evaluate reading strategies that challenge students to think critically about the text. Educators were given a step-by-step manual on how to increase student Lexile scores through a student-centered approach to understanding Literature and Informational Text.
Congratulations mini-grant recipient Media Specialist Christine Tigue at Hope-Hill ES!
Congratulations to Christitne Tigue at Hope-Hill ES for being awarded the 2016 Ezra Jack Keats Foundation grant.
Please don't forget....
May 5- HRRB Steering Comm. Meeting
May 13-Media Specialist Family Celebration
May 25-Before you go...........
- Complete the Media Specialist Checklist
- Complete Real Time Inventory
- All funds for fees/fines have been turned into the office for deposit
- Discard all newspapers & periodicals (click purple the link below)
APS Media Services
Media Coordinator
Patrice Laird Walker, Ed.S
Media Specialist At-Large
Email: wgoetzel@atlanta.k12.ga.us
Website: atlanta.k12.ga.us
Phone: 404-802-2760
Twitter: @WarrenGoetzel