Coral Ridge Elementary 2023-24
Beverly T. Goodwin Media Center Annual Report
Mission Statement and Vision
The Beverly T. Goodwin Media Center is a place of learning and discovery. The Library Media Specialist will provide a program of standards-aligned instruction designed to give students the necessary skills to effectively use print and digital resources for research and learning. Students will also receive literature instruction designed to create and foster a lifelong love of reading for personal growth and enjoyment.
About Coral Ridge
* Information from JCPS 2023-24 School Profiles
Library Schedule
The Library schedule only had slight changes for the 2022-24 school year. Students each visited the library (checking out books weekly) and all other Special Areas once a week, in the Special Area rooms, Monday-Thursday.
Fridays were an extra rotation, with students visiting their Monday Special Area again the first Friday, Tuesday’s Special Area the second Friday, and so on. During most Fridays in the library, our Counselor Mrs. Walsh and Mental Health Practitioner Mrs. Roberts met with students to continue to deliver Character Counts lessons using the “A Little Spot Of…” book series. This provided more time for me to accomplish library administrative (as the library has no clerk/assistant) and School Technology Coordinator tasks, and also increased the time Mrs. Walsh and Mrs. Roberts got to spend on each lesson with the students. Due to changes in the PreK schedule, PreK students were no longer able to visit the library as they did in the 2022-23 school year.
Time | Grade |
9:05-9:35 | Planning |
9:35-10:25 | 4th |
10:30-11:20 | 5th |
11:20-12:00 | Lunch/Planning |
12:00-12:50 | 2nd |
12:55-1:45 | 3rd |
1:50-2:40 | K |
2:45-3:35 | 1st |
3:35-4:05 | Car Rider Duty |
Circulation
During this school year, students and staff checked out 11,409 books! That’s approximately 19 books per student! As in previous years, I maintained an Open Door policy, in which students and staff could visit the library as needed to exchange books for any reason outside of their scheduled library time.
As of 5/31/24::
Books still checked out to staff and students: 139
Approximate value: $3475
Most checked out book for the year:
Dog Man: 20,000 Fleas under the Sea
By Dav Pilkey
(69 checkouts)
Total holdings: 8836 (16 per student)
Everybody: 1874
Fiction: 1687
Non-fiction: 4020
Biography: 489
Graphic Novel: 346
Collection Development
Continued progress on updating collection, with expenditures of $5000 plus Book Fair profits.
I have continued weeding to create room on the shelves for new purchases as well as to allow students to more easily find what they are looking for, without having to dig through shelves tightly packed with old, outdated, or damaged books. Through this continual weeding process, I come close to the JCPS standard for average collection age (10 years) each year. When I started at Coral Ridge in the 2017-18 school year, the collection age was 19 years. At the end of this year, our average publication date is 2011, bringing our collection age down to 13 years. When the seven years that have passed are taken into consideration, that means the collection age has improved by 13 years.
Fall Book Fair Sales: $4,131.58
Profit (Titlewave credit): $1,239.47
Spring BOGO Book Fair Sales (no profit to library): $4,235.61
Fundraising
This was our second year with Literati book fairs, after switching from Scholastic. Although Literati does not send as many impulse/register items, I feel the selection of books is better, as are the prices because most titles are available in paperback, and the setup, running, and packing up experiences are far easier. Profits are lower than with Scholastic; however, the ability to spend those profits in Titlewave’s entire regular-priced catalog rather than a small selection of arguably overpriced items through Scholastic makes up for the difference.
Credit earned through book fair sales is used to purchase fiction, everybody, and graphic novel titles, with a focus on high-interest books (such as the latest releases in a series) and diverse titles to reflect our student population.
STC
Tech support for students, staff, and families.
As the School Technology Coordinator (STC), I continued to provide assistance to staff and students. I utilized Google Forms for teachers to report Chromebook issues and any other tech issues they may have ran into. I also maintained a set of loaner Chromebooks for students who did not have a charged Chromebook for use.
Chromebook checkout and return
STLP Coach
Due to scheduling difficulties this year, only a few of our students participated in the Book Cover and Logo Design categories of STLP’s Creative Digital Arts competition (formerly known as DPOJ.) Although none of our students advanced in the competition, I was very proud of their hard work and creativity!
We continued with many of our fun events this year and added some new ones:
Student Involvement
Successes and Goal Progress
Opportunities for Growth and 2024-25 Goals