My vision for a media center is a place where:

• Every student feels welcomed, comfortable, and safe
• Students develop a love of reading and literature through readers’ advisory and collection development
• Rigorous and challenging instruction occurs, based on Bloom’s Taxonomy
• All students are engaged through differentiated instruction and Multiple Intelligences and Constructivist techniques
• 21st Century learners and digital citizens develop
• A culture of inquiry and discovery thrives
• Students develop critical thinking and evaluative skills, creativity, and imagination
• Students interact responsibly and ethically with technology and media
• Students become experts in research and 21st Century literacy
• Faculty is supported through various professional development workshops
• The Media Specialist and various faculty members collaborate and team-teach, for the benefit of student learning
• The AASL Standards for 21st Century Learners and the NJCCCS are the centerpiece around which all else revolves

My mission is to develop a fun, educational environment that instructs and supports both students and faculty in areas of technology and Web 2.0; research and library skills; information and 21st century literacies; critical thought and inquiry; and literature appreciation, according to the AASL Standards for 21st Century Learners and the NJCCCS.