North Media Center

February Highlights

and Statistics

Monthly Highlights

--Collaborative Lessons

In addition to the regularly scheduled collaborative class

sessions meeting in the Library Media Center, Mrs. Stout is co-

teaching a Senior Non-fiction Inquiry Unit with two Senior

English teachers, Mrs. Diercksen and Mrs. McGowan. The unit

uses best practices from UBD and Guided Inquiry to framework

student centered inquiry units incorporating Google documents

and Common Core standards. Students are self-selecting core

texts and essential questions, reflecting upon their progress,

and demonstrating their new insights in a culminating final

project. Mrs. Stout is working with the MTPL and ILL to acquire

high interest non-fiction for the project. In addition, the North

library has purchased several new high interest non-fiction

acquisitions.

Two additional teachers have signed up for the unit in the fourth

marking period.

Monthly Highlights--Events in the Media Center

The book club met once in February to

discuss The Fault in Our Stars by John

Green. Next up is The City of

Bones, Book 1 of The Mortal Instruments

Series, by Cassandra Clare. The entire

series is available on Nooks 1-6.

Monthly Highlights--Professional Development

Mrs. Stout continues to attend the District Professional

Academy Board, and intends to stay involved with the Board’s

endeavors to continue to foster meaningful PD opportunities to

cultivate teacher leaders.

Mrs. Stout also joined the building based School Improvement

Committee and would like to focus on improving the availability

of focus group sessions for students during the Block 3

transition period.

At the February PLC session, Mrs. Stout offered a Google Ninja

Troubleshooting Session.

Mrs. Stout served on the Digital Literacy Month Committee and

helped lead the district Middletown Google Ninja Program

Initiative to success.

February Statistics

Direct Instruction Class Sessions 138

Drop In Class Sessions 7

Classes scheduled for

Presenters/Events/Testing24

Circulation 251

Before School Visits 476

Lunch and Pass Visits 233

After School Visits 25

LibGuides Usage 3557