Winter Park Elementary School Wins National Gale and Library
Media Connection 2011 TEAMS Award
Source: http://www.nhcs.net/publicrelations/NewsReleases/winterpark00.htm
Winter Park Elementary School has won the Gale and Library Media Connection Magazine’s Teachers and Media Specialists Influencing Student Achievement (TEAMS) Award. The national TEAMS Award was created to recognize the critical collaboration between teachers and media specialists in promoting learning and increasing student achievement. Nominations were evaluated based on: demonstrated collaboration between media specialists and teachers during the school year; effective techniques that positively impact student learning and achievement; support received from school leadership; and the ability for others to replicate this best practice.
Monica Goza, Principal at Winter Park said, “The creative collaboration of this digital story will inspire students of any age and teachers at any level. I am just so pleased that Winter Park has been recognized for the story’s greatness and how well our team of educators worked together to make a high-quality product.” The school’s media specialist, Jessica Moore, teamed up with second grade teacher Jennifer Hatch to take one student’s interest in a book about snakes and turn it into a collaborative school-wide project involving the art, music, physical education and technology teachers.
Students used the information researched in the library to write a book for their classmates. They then brought their story to the art teacher who created illustrations and a storyline. From there, the music teacher helped them record snake-like sounds in rhythm to a sentence of the story. The technology assistant helped them scan their artwork, record their narration, and organize their story. The PE instructor taught the students about contortionism and their recorded feats of acrobatics served as the finale to the digital snake story.
“Even after many years of presenting the TEAMS Award, we continue to be amazed and gratified to see that school librarians are moving strongly forward in the face of budgetary adversity,” said Marlene Woo-Lun, publisher of Library Media Connection. Nader Qaimari, Senior Vice President of Marketing for Cengage Learning said, “For today’s students to succeed in the classroom and beyond, they must develop 21st century skills such as global and computer literacy, problem solving and the ability to think critically. This new type of learning requires a fresh approach to instruction where school library media specialists and classroom teachers collaborate on units of study designed to build these skills alongside content area knowledge.”
Winter Park will receive $2,500 in cash, Gale products, a one-year subscription to Library Media Connection and the Educator’s Professional Bookshelf from Linworth Publishing. In addition, the school will be featured in an article in Library Media Connection. The awards will be presented to Ms. Moore and Ms. Hatch at a special reception held in conjunction with the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) annual conference in Minneapolis, MN in late October.
For more information regarding the TEAMS Award, visit www.galeschools.com/TEAMS or contact Kristina Massari atkristina.massari@cengage.com.
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Students with their original artwork from "The Lost and Found of Sabrina."
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Jessica Moore and Jenn Hatch presenting “The Lost and Found of Sabrina: A Collaborative Lesson in Digital Storytelling” at the NHCS Summer Technology Institute in June 2011. |
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| Jenn Hatch and Winter Park's Focus Teachers holding original student artwork from "The Lost and Found of Sabrina." |
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