Media Center

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    The Media Center is a learning hub that encourages meaningful exploration, creation, and collaboration between students, teachers, and the community. Student engagement, personalized and collaborative learning opportunities, and expanded access to a variety of resources will increase student learning. We aim to empower and guide students to learn in a creative and productive environment. Integrating technology with the curriculum creates a positive experience for each student.

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    Our Media Center has a searchable library collection that can be accessed through Destiny Discover.  Students and parents can search by title, author, or topic for materials in the media center, classroom libraries, or books on classroom reading lists. To help students locate both print and eBooks, access Follett Destiny Library.  Your student's Single Sign On can access this information from school or home.  


    School Library Media Program:

    • Provides resources that meet a broad range of individual learning styles, abilities, interests, and curriculum needs, including multicultural education.
    • Stimulates and promotes information literacy through quality instruction, empowering students to become effective readers, information users, critical thinkers, creative problem solvers, and lifelong learners.
    • Strengthens effective teaching and learning through collaboration.
    • Stimulates and promotes literacy in reading, listening, viewing and communicating for both pleasure and information.
    • Utilizes technology to address expanding information needs.  

Media Staff

  • Mrs. Kim Worcester

    Hours of Operation
    Monday - Friday 
    7:40 a.m. - 2:10 p.m.

    *READING ACROSS BROWARD*

    The mission of READING ACROSS BROWARD, The Superintendent's Reading Motivation Project, is to motivate Broward students to incorporate reading into their daily lives, foster a lifelong habit of reading and library use, and utilize technology to improve student achievement while promoting reading.

    To participate in READING ACROSS BROWARD, students in Kindergarten - Grade 2 should read 100 grade level books and students in Grades 3 – 5 should read 50 grade level books.

    Books read between April 1, 2024, and March 31, 2025, must be entered directly into the Beanstack app no later than March 31, 2025. Directions for logging the books in Beanstack is as follows:

    1. Log into your child’s Clever dashboard
    2. Select the Beanstack icon
    3. Select List
    4. Scan the ISBN number from the back of the book or enter by title or author
    5. Toggle that the book has been completed

    Students who complete the highest level of the program will receive a medallion, engraved with their name, at their end-of-the-year Award Ceremony!

Media Center Rules

    • Take good care of our books.
    • Return books on time. 
    • Books may be checked out for one week and may be renewed two times.
    • Two books may be checked out at a time.
    • Lost or damaged books must be paid for through the eStore.

PPE Collection Development Plan

  • Plantation Park Elementary School's Collection Development Plan is underway. Upon completion and approval by the administration, it will be promptly shared here.

Challenge Reading Materials Process

Online Library Resources

  • The District provides online resources to ensure equitable access to information that will improve student performance and achievement. Follet Destiny and other digital age-appropriate materials that support educational and social-emotional needs. 

     
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