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2021-2023 - Brooklyn Park Elementary School

Library Media Specialist

I spent my first two years as a Library Media Specialist at Brooklyn Park Elementary School, which is located right outside Baltimore, MD. During my time here, I not only ran the library, but I was head of the yearbook committee and co-lead for Sunshine, ran 3 successful book fairs, and coached various clubs.

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Colorful Books

Monthly Challenges

To promote reading each month, I would create a new challenge. This also merged with Pizza Hut's BookIT program. Students had to read a book and disguise something as the character. We would vote on a school-wide winner each month. 

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Morning Announcements

One of my duties as Library Media Specialist was to run the morning announcements each morning. I used SlidesGO to create an interactive and engaging templates to help keep student attention each morning. 

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Sunshine Committee

As Sunshine co-lead, it was my duty to organize in and out of school monthly events. I created the flyers to hype up the event and tried to organize things all staff could participate in. 

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Yearbook

As the Media Specialist, I was also in charge of the yearbook. I would have students create and design every single page. The end result was a yearbook created for the students BY the students. 

Library Bookshelves

Reading Spotlights

Each month, I chose a book for the reading spotlight bulletin board. Students would create something to go on the board. This allowed ALL student work to be displayed throughout the school. 

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Book Fairs

Becoming the Library Media Specialist at the tail-end of Covid lockdowns allowed me a unique opportunity with book fairs. The excitement showed, as we tripled the sales as a school, and had over $300 of donations! 

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Clubs

To increase student engagement and problem-solving, I ran various after-school clubs. We had a robotics club, Minecraft club, and Rubik's Cube club just to name a few. 

Reading in a Bookstore

Genrefying the Library

Due to COVID, many of our students were not only behind in reading, but also understanding the library as a whole. I decided to change our Fiction section to be a genrefied, color-coded section to allow for easy access. 

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