Downtown Elementary Magnet Academy’s Media Specialist is here to empower students to learn technology and 21st-century skills incorporating collaboration, communication, creativity, critical thinking, and citizenship. The desire for our students is to be prepared to interact with the world around them.

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The mission is to provide quality learning experiences designed to equip students with the skills to adapt and thrive in a changing global environment. Students' experiences in the library to extend and enhance the classroom experience and to assist in amplifying the curriculum. I goal is for the library to be a place where students, teachers, and families can explore, learn, create, and collaborate. I want everyone to have the opportunity to innovate and create through imagining, tinkering, playing, and experimenting.I desire to  foster a love of reading and learning in addition to modeling and utilizing current technologies to assist students and teachers in becoming proficient and responsible users of information and new technology."

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- Mrs. Z.