Media Center
(Media Specialist) Mr. Brien Costigan
St. Joan of Arc School’s Media Center:
• Promotes reading by providing a wide range of books totaling over 19,000 titles, and reading materials to appeal to all.
• Offers print as well as e-book selections to make reading accessible to all students, all the time.
• Focuses on Classic Literature for both summer reading and in-school novels.
• Uses the Accelerated Reader program as an incentive to encourage reading, as well as a tool to gauge student comprehension.
• Has a scheduled time for each class once a week which includes story time for young children, or a lesson pertaining to library/ literature skills for our older students, as well as free time for making book selections.
• Our Media Center is open after school until 3:30 for students escorted by their parents.
• Welcomes parent volunteers.
• Invites a local storyteller in three times during the school year.
• Holds two annual book fairs in the SJA Media Center, and a Holiday Music and Shopping event at our local Barnes and Noble store.
Technologies in Use:
• Multimedia computers
• Ipads for use after school
• Young children’s listening center
• Interactive white boards/CCTV Campus display
• Smart Technologies handheld Responders
• Printers
• E-books through Follett Shelf
• Internet-based Research programs are available to students at school and at home.
• Destiny Library Manager
