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White Oak Elementary School Media Center

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White Oak Elementary School Media Center

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The White Oak Media Center is a collaborative space inviting students, teachers, and families to work and learn together.

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Lanier provides middle school students with hands on programs including broadcasting and drones. Students utilize collaborative spaces to practice drama, club meetings, and collaboration.

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Lanier High School offers a Reader's Rally Program offering quiz challenge competition for the most passionate readers. The media center supports academy research, small group collaboration and instruction.

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Small group lunch and learn sessions help students find just right books, new genres, and build reading stamina. Book Tastings are popular with fourth grade students. By pulling small groups, the media specialists supports differentiation and provides instructional support for classroom teachers.

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4/5 Book Club grows readers with weekly reading goals, discussions, and provides community service activities including making bookmarks for the local assisted living center and fire station.

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Gathering Space for Classes and Teachers

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Gathering Space for Classes and Teachers

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Teachers schedule times for whole class work in the media center. Students utilize collaborative spaces and instructional resources supporting teaching and learning.

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Grandparents, teachers, and our school's principal support literacy as guest readers.

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Meeting author Kate Dicamillo highlighted relationships built between the school library and staff. Staff members meet monthly for Staff Book Club.

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The media specialist supports gifted first grade instruction providing differentiated lessons and advanced content with a fairy tale unit. Students research fairy tales, use a graphic organizer to compare the stories and then create a story board retelling the fairy tale in their own words. Completed stories will be used to write a digital story book. Each student will use Storyjumper to publish their original fairy tale.

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High School students compete Quiz Bowl style in the district Reader's Rally Competition. Students meet in the media center weekly to hone their competition skills.

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Students with an interest in graphic novels meet to discuss their favorite genre.

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Lanier High, Middle and White Oak Elementary - Innovation and Collaboration

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Lanier High, Middle and White Oak Elementary - Innovation and Collaboration

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Lanier High School, Middle School and White Oak Elementary house STEM certified programs. Lanier High's CDAT/STEM Academy, Lanier Middle School's STEM Certified TWIST program are supported by White Oak Elementary's STEM program. Students can move through the cluster's STEM program beginning in kindergarten.

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WOES is the first STEM certified elementary school in Georgia. STEM and design thinking are fostered in the Media Center's Makerspace activities.

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Makerspace activities are available for students every day. Students in grades K-1 attend weekly Makerspace Storytime. Upper grade students use the Makerspace during recess, book checkout, and at teacher convenience.

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Students manage the morning announcements. Students come for daily working lunch time to create informative slideshows which are broadcast each day on morning announcements. Students produce and lead daily morning announcements and attend the GCPS Television Studio for a training field trip.

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Students leave White Oak ES and are provided the opportunity to continue supporting the morning news in both the middle and high schools. With early interest in broadcast students easily navigate video production challenges and develop script writing skills.

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Students meet during lunch to engage in Reading Club offering another opportunity for students to engage with literature at the middle school.

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Students meet with community members to learn about the American Flag and how to care for the flag. These students maintain the flag raising it each morning before school and bringing it inside and folding it correctly at the end of the day.

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Lanier Middle provides collaboration spaces for students and teachers. Students use the space for research and instruction.

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Students use the media center's many collaborative spaces for clubs, instruction, and research.

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Gwinnett County Public Library Partnership

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Gwinnett County Public Library Partnership

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Children's librarians partner with the elementary school.

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The Lanier Cluster partners with the local Buford Branch of the Gwinnett County Public Library.

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Parents attended a workshop aimed to support summer reading and included a presentation from the Buford Branch of the Gwinnett County Public Library.

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Parents attended Reading Workshops aimed to enhance reading at home. Presented by WOES Literacy Coach Sarah Edgeworth and Media Specialist Stephanie Wallace to parents of children in grades 3-5.

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This presentation aimed at the importance of father/child reading in the development of strong early readers and strong reading habits was presented by Stephanie Wallace and Sarah Edgeworth.  Dad's learned strategies for supporting reading and reading with their children during an All Pro Dads breakfast.

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Partnering with the WOES PTA families celebrate Read Across America with guest Readers including Principal Jean Loethen.

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Middle School Fine Arts in the Media Center

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Middle School Fine Arts in the Media Center

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Middle school students perform for elementary school students encouraging students to join the cluster music

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Lanier Cluster Schools join the Sugar Hill community in a day of makers and making.

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As we celebrate National Library Week, it continues to be the Lanier Community supporting the WOES Media Center. The American Library Association is going on the road to promote our nation's library programs. Christou (2018) reports the ALA sees a crisis in library funding which could affect library programs nationally.

References Christou, C.  (2018). ALA Ventures Out Into Communities for New Advocacy Effort. Information Today, 35(9), 1–29. Retrieved from http://articles.westga.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=cph&AN=133227382&site=eds-live&scope=site

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Summer Reading Incentive Program for Students and Staff

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Summer Reading Incentive Program for Students and Staff

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Students and teachers have a choice to participate three different ways in summer reading activities. Students can complete a Summer Reading BINGO, Maintain a Book List reading online with the Georgia Department of Education, or joining the GCPL Summer Reading program. Students are rewarded with prizes when the BINGO or reading lists are returned in August to school. Students at WOES can also participate in Take 5- a summer reading program allowing students to check out 5 WOES media center books for the summer.

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Research shows that students that read over the summer will be more successful when they return to school in the fall

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The Buford Branch library partnered with the WOES Book Club making houses for bees as an extension to the book A Handful of Stars.