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School Description
Sarah Rawson Smith
Elementary
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School Information
Sarah Smith is located in North Atlanta and is divided into
two campuses: primary (K-2) and intermediate (3-5).
Intermediate Campus (focus of project) is located at:
4141 Wieuca Road, NE
Atlanta, GA 30342
Georgia School of Excellence National Blue Ribbon School
Governors Office of School Achievement Silver Award for
High Performance on CRCT - 2012
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Intermediate Campus Demographics
559 students (1,224 for entire school) 58.18% White
23.79% African American
24.33% Hispanic/Latino
5.9% Asian
18.8% free & reduced lunch
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Classrooms & Teachers
9 Third Grade Classrooms
8 Fourth Grade Classrooms
7 Fifth Grade Classrooms
Students take French 4 days a week
2 Special Education Resource Classrooms
Art, PE, Guidance, and Music are taken once aweek
Band and Orchestra are offered twice a week
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Media Center
The Media Center is staffed by one full time media specialist and amedia clerk who is there two days a week. Classes visit the media
center on a scheduled basis for 35 minutes once every two weeks.
The media center is centrally located on the first floor of the two
story building. To enter the school building, you must go through thefront office. The media center is directly to the left after you exit the
office.
Although small, our media center seems larger due to a two story
ceiling and windows. There is a workroom, a conferenceroom/reference room, and a storage room directly off the central
area. The media specialist has her own small office directly behind
the circulation desk. Only ten computers are housed in the media
center, but there is a Mac Lab right next to it with 25 computers.
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School Programs
Discovery Education
Accelerated Reader
STAR Math & Reading
First in Math
IXL Math
TumbleBooks
Edmodo
*all programs are funded through technology department, not media center
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Technology for Checkout
2 sets of Activotes for Promethean Board
1 set of ActivExpressions for Promethean
Board
2 Flip Cameras
1 Digital Camera
1 Magic Wand Portable Scanner 1 Ladibug Document Camera
1 Video Camera
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Photo Tour and Analysis
Sarah Rawson Smith
Elementary
Intermediate CampusMedia Center
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Media Center Entrance
Standing outside
front office,looking to your left
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EntranceThe media
center is
centrally locatedto all
classrooms,
which are either
on the floor
above it or down
the samehallway.
Main Office
Classrooms
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View standing directly inside entrance
Looking straight
ahead
Fiction, Picture
Books andInstructional Area
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View standing directly inside entrance
Looking to left
Non Fiction and
Instructional
Area
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View standing directly inside entrance
Looking to right
Computers
Periodicals
Small
Alcove
with
desk
Class Folders
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View standing directly inside entrance
Looking diagonal
right
Circulation
Desk, entrance
to workroom
Graphic Novels,
Mysteries,
Historical Fiction
LMS Office
Workroom
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Long Views
Standing in front of
promethean board
Floor outlet
workroom
entrance
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Circulation DeskThe circulation desk is
easy to access and find.
The media specialists
office is located directly
behind it.
Book carts are behind desk
to aid in re-shelving and
organizing returns.
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Long Views
The instructional area has six tables with 4-5 chairs at each
table. The LMC does have a promethean board and outlets inthe floor.
Floor outlet
View from
workroom door
Circulation desk
is on the right
and computers
are out of the
picture on theleft.
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Instructional AreaThe instructional
area is spacious.
Students have bigtables with
supplies. The
promethean board
can be seen easily.
What is missing? We
do not have a story
time area.
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Long Views
There are ten computers in the media center. But as you can see, there is
no printer for students.
Looking from front
right corner past
computers with
reference room
and storage on theopposite side.
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Two Story Ceiling and Windows
Bright, tall windows
Looking back
at entrance
with back to
windows
Upstairs
teacher
workroom looks
over LMC
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Fiction Section
Novels are on these 3
shelves and one behind
them.
Picture Books are on these
bookshelves. We do not have a
huge collection because we have to
share with the primary campus.
This set of bookcases has popular genres likemysteries, historical fiction, and graphic novels.
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000-363 are on shorterbookcases
398-597 are on taller bookcases
Non-Fiction Books
Biographies
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SignageOur media
specialist uses
different kinds
of signage tohelp students
find materials.
Shelf labelsSigns on shelves
posters
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Periodicals
Class Folders
and SupplyCases
Currently we do not subscribe to student periodicals.
Storage for instructional table supplies.
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Reading AreaThe student reading area is pleasant and lit
by natural light. However, it is hidden from
view by bookcases, which makes
supervision a challenge. It seats 4 students.
These smaller pictures are the views from the
reading corner in all directions.To left
Straight ahead
To right
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Media Specialists Office
Located behind the circulation
desk.
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Workroom The workroom is very large and housesteacher resources like a scantron, dvds, and
butcher paper.
It has a sink and a few sets of built in
cabinets. It is underutilized because there are
two more convenient workrooms with copiers,
one in the office and one upstairs for 3rd and
4th grade classrooms on the second floor.
If a copier, the
laminator, and
paper cutters were
in this room,
teachers would be
in the media center
multiple times a
day.
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Looking at storage room door on left and
reference room door on right
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Storage Room
View From Door
From door looking to left
Looking back at front left corner
The storage room is pretty large,
and has room to spare. The shelves
are fairly well organized and things
are easy to find.
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Reference RoomThis room is cozy, but
rarely used. It isoccasionally used as a
conference room for IST
testing or small group
inservice, but we have
another conference room
that is better suited. View from door
Looking left from door