HCMS Media Center Reading Blog: March 2010

Friday, March 12, 2010

Exceptional Media Program Open House

Heard County Middle School Media Center hosted an open house March 11, 2010 to celebrate the school's Exceptional Media Center Program for 2009 award. More than 50 people attended the event, including Heard County School Superintendent Benjamin Hyatt, Assistant Superintendent Jerry Prince, Assistant Superintendent Marianne Cole and Assistant Superintendent Jan Rayfield. Media specialists from Buford Middle School, Carrollton Junior High School, Central High School and Hillsman Middle School also attended. Thanks to everyone for making the open house a success!
--Glovis and Janet

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Happy Kid!

Happy Kid, written by Gail Gauthier, is a book that tells about life in middle school. Kyle just wants to stay hidden throughout his middle school years, but his psychologist mom wants him to become more positive and friendly. She buys a self-help book and pays him each time he reads one of the very short chapters. Funny. Read it. Be happy.

Happy Kid
By Gail Gauthier
New York, Putnam, 2006
230 pages.

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I am the media specialist at Heard County Middle School in Franklin, Georgia. Our students are in grades 6-8. I've been media specialist here since our school opened in 2002. Our media center received the Exceptional Media Center Award (Georgia Department of Education) in 2009 and, this year, I was awarded the AASL Pathfinder Award. I became a media specialist in 1993 and served two schools: Ephesus Elementary School (K-8) and Centralhatchee Elementary School (K-8). I worked at one school each morning and at the other each afternoon. Later, increased enrollment at Centralhatchee allowed me to serve that school full time before our county created the middle school.
I have my National Board Certification in Library Media/Early Childhood Through Young Adulthood (issued November 18, 2005). I have a bachelor's degree in Middle Grades Education. I have a Master's degree in Media and an Ed.S. (Educational Specialist) degree in Media and Instructional Technology, earned through at the University of West Georgia. The first degree program I completed (at WGC) was in Speech and Theater Art /Journalism (minor in Business Administration). I was editor of The Bowdon Bulletin for 10 years and also worked as reporter for two bi-weekly newspapers that later became the Daily Times-Georgian. I have freelanced articles and have had several published in the North Georgia Journal.
My husband (Richard) and I have two children: Sabrina (Thompson) and Cullie. Sabrina is a media specialist at Temple High School in Carroll County. Cullie works for Reeve's Supply Company. We have a farm that includes cows, chickens, guineas, turkeys, goats, cats and livestock guardian dogs (Great Pyrenees).
To find out more about our media program, go to http://bravesread.net.

-- Mrs. South

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Friday, March 12, 2010

Exceptional Media Program Open House

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Happy Kid!

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