School Media Center Mission Statement

It is the Mission of the I.S. 230-Q School Media Center to fulfill the needs of the entire I.S. 230-Q community in this age of information, reinforcing the school’s mission of creating a community of active learners. The open access of the center and its collections strongly encourages PRIDE. [the Promotion of Reading and the skills of Inquiry, Discovery and Exploring multiple resources.] Critical Thinking is an integral process of learning and through its use students will understand how to DRIVE. [Determine Relevance and Investigate further, Verify and Extract the appropriate information.] Bibliographic and research instruction, in collaboration with the subject teachers, ensures that the skills learned are applied directly to the pedagogical needs of the students. Through use of ALL forms of media to supplement curricular and extra-curricular needs, individual community members’ requirements are addressed. This assists in fulfilling the mandated standards of reading for pleasure and reading for information and comprehension.

"Not Where we Stand, but in what direction we are moving."            -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe