Teaching
Pleasant Knoll Middle School
Media Specialist
Fort Mill School District - York 4
May 2017- Present
Media Specialist
Fort Mill School District - York 4
May 2017- Present
- Mentor - Serve as a district mentor for new media specialists
- Evaluator - Serve as media specialist district evaluator (SC Teaching Standards 4.0)
- Committee Chair - parent and community outreach
- Department Chair - Library and Media Services
- Coordinated opening day print and electronic library collection
- Facilitated PKMS becoming Common Sense Media Certified School
- Co-Leader - One School One Book program with literacy facilitator
- Co-facilitator - STEAM/Literacy night
- Co-facilitator - multiple author visits
- Served on committee for integration of SC Computer Science and Digital Literacy Standards
- Fundraising
- Volunteer Coordinator
- Leadership Team
Doby's Bridge Elementary School
Media Specialist
Fort Mill School District - York 4
June 2014 - May 2017
Media Specialist
Fort Mill School District - York 4
June 2014 - May 2017
- Participated in team coordination of the opening-day library collection
- Consult with media specialist team and administration on supply and furniture order to suit the needs of a Learning Commons Model
- Manage One School One Book family literacy event for fourth year, bringing this program to second school in Fort Mill School District
- Common Sense Media Certified Educator
- Along with Technology teacher, met requirements to become a Common Sense Media Certified School
- Serve as consultant for other school librarians who are implementing One School One Book for first time
- Team Lead
- Webmaster for school website
Sugar Creek Elementary School
Media Specialist
Fort Mill School District - York 4
August 2011-June 2014
Media Specialist
Fort Mill School District - York 4
August 2011-June 2014
- Taught K-5th grade lessons on fixed daily schedule
- Taught Common Sense Media:Digital Citizenship Scope and Sequence to K-5 students
- Co-Leader of ESL Club - Objective is to help second language learners become more fluent with reading and comprehension. Emphasis on incorporating non-fiction/informational text in a readers theater format
- Coordinator/co-coordinator of book fairs with multiple vendors, generating over $12,000 in library funding
- Founded first One School One Book event in South Carolina, annual planning and implementation of this family literacy event
- Instructor of Early Childhood Education 4, teacher education program for Nation Ford High School
- Received grant from Foundation for Fort Mill Schools to fund first One School One Book event in the state of S.C.
- Co-coordinator of NetSCOPE grant project in which a unique research study was designed and implemented with over 900 students,
- NetSCOPE grant committee at Sugar Creek Elementary awarded $2,500