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BN BUDGET
MEDT 6461: Administration of School Media
Budget Project
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Proposed Three-Year Budget for 2019-2020 / 2020-2021 / 2021-2022

North Fayette Elementary School (NFE) currently has a student population of 681. The school is
almost equally divided among girls and boys at 49% and 51% respectively. NFE’s ethnical
breakdown is 64% Black, 16% Hispanic, 9% White, 7% with two or more races, and 4% Asian.
The free and reduced lunch rate is currently around 60%. About 9% of the student population
receives Special Education services and 10% are English Language Learners. The school is a
Title I school. We have a transient population as well. The library hosts two Scholastic book
fairs each year that brings in about $4,000 a year. This is the cash payout that Scholastic offers so
it does not need to be spent on Scholastic products.
After talking with Mrs. Pahl who is the current media specialist at North Fayette Elementary I
was able to acquire a lot of information about the budget she has and how it is allocated. She
stated that the county provides a budget but stipulates the bulk of the budget should be spent on
books each year. The other money is pretty fluid and can be used for a variety of different things
based on what is needed in the library. Her library is getting completely remodeled during the
summer and will be redone before the 2019-2020 school year begins. While the county is paying
for most of the remodel, she is responsible for some new decorations, books, and Makerspace
materials. A bulk of the budget below will be devoted to those areas, especially books and
Makerspace materials. While Mrs. Pahl does have input from the administration, students, and
suggestions from teachers and other staff in the building on how the money should be spent, she
“can pretty much spend it how I see fit” she stated. To determine the needs of the library, Mrs.
Pahl runs an analysis periodically throughout the year through the circulation system, Destiny.
This allows her to see what books and authors are most popular among the students. She also
considers the Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE) to order books for teachers that will best
aid in teaching those standards. One thing she said that she didn’t like is that sometimes she has
to spend her own personal money and then get reimbursed. She went on to say that she avoids
that whenever she can as it is difficult on her financially and she fears that it may take a long
time to get reimbursed or she may not at all.

The budget below shows a three year plan for NFE. The budget will be out of $9,000 to
incorporate the $5,000 from the county plus the $4,000 from the two book fairs held each year.
NFE has a big emphasis on improving reading comprehension, growing Lexile levels, and
improving writing. Mrs. Pahl would also like to adhere to the mission statement: Fostering a love
of reading and learning for all through books, technology, collaboration, and quality resources.
She also wants to gender balance her fiction section, buy books that are high interest but low
reading level, while updating the biography section, and providing more eBooks. The following
proposed budget will be addressed with all administration, staff, and stakeholders:

Item 2019-2020 2020-2021 2021-2022 Total

Print Books $3,000 $2,500 $2,950 $8,450

eBooks $500 $540 $405 $1,445
Decorations $200 $700 $100 $1,000
Makerspace $2,500 $2,500 $2,225 $7,225
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Conferences $500 $500 $500 $1,500

Collaborations $310 $590 $500 $1,400
Technology $1,060 $560 $410 $2,030
Online $430 $610 $1,410 $2,450
Subscriptions
Supplies $500 $500 $500 $1,500

TOTAL $9,000 $9,000 9,000 $27,000

Print Books:
Mrs. Pahl stated that a third of the current library is very outdated with many books being
published in the 1960s and 1970s. This budget includes money to update with new titles. This
will also help buy books to gender balance the library. The fiction section heavily favors girls
and girl characters. This budget will allow buying books about boys and for boys. In addition,
the library’s biography section also needs an update. Books will be bought that feature more
African American and Hispanic figures. There will also be more books about sports players and
teams as those are very popular and circulate often. Next, the library needs books with lower
Lexile levels to provide more reading material for PreK, Kindergarten, English Language
Learners, and those students receiving EIP services. Finally, since there is a big push for the
Reading Counts program this budget will go towards books that have Reading Counts tests.

eBooks:
NFE is a one-to-one school. Every student (kindergarten through second grade) at NFE has a
Chromebook. They bring them to school every day to use in the classroom, but they also bring
them home every night to use at home as well. Because of this, many opportunities open to
students. eBooks are an underutilized resource right now. If we purchase eBooks students will be
able to log in and read books online at any time. This will be extremely helpful if they have left
their print books a home or at school. In addition, if students have overdue books in the library,
they are not allowed to check out any print materials until those books have been returned,
renewed, or they have paid the fine. With online resources, they can read eBooks even if they are
unable to check out books. Traditionally with eBooks, like printed books, only one person can be
reading the book at a time. For this reason, the SLMS will be looking for books that have an
infinity usage meaning multiple students can be reading the same book at the same time.
Furthermore, some online books will have Reading Counts tests as well. Finally, some eBooks
have the “read to me” option, which is helpful for beginning readers, English Language
Learners, and EIP students because listening to expert readers improves reading skills in
emerging readers.

Decorations:
The decorations in the library will make the space inviting and welcoming to teachers, students,
and parents. This is important so that students will want to spend time in the library and go often.
In 2019-2020 most of the decorations will be small such as posters for the walls, pillows and
cushions for students to have comfortable spaces to read, a Makerspace banner, and some small
wire easels to display particular books. In 2020-2021 the budget allows for a nice 8 feet by 11
feet rug for the whole group learning space in the library and updated pillows and cushions. The
following year, 2021-2022, will help to replace or update around the library.
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Makerspace:
Since the Makerspace area of the library will be new in 2019, the budget allows to stock it with
supplies and storage. The storage will be clear containers and labels to keep on the shelves
provided to keep the space organized. The supplies will include paper, markers, poster boards,
Legos, Play-Doh, pipe cleaners, craft sticks, toothpicks, glue, plastic cups, yarn and string,
cardboard boxes, batteries, LED lights, straws, pattern blocks, snap cubes, K’nexs, KEVA
Structures, Qubits, Makey Makey classic, and Snap Circuits. The third year will be used to
replenish supplies or buy new materials as needed. In the third year want to buy a 3D printer.
These materials will aid teachers and the librarian in teaching various STEAM projects in the
Makerspace area of the library. It will also help meet many Georgia Standards of Excellence
(GSE) standards such as this second grade standard S2E2. Obtain, evaluate, and communicate
information to develop an understanding of the patterns of the sun and the moon and the sun’s
effect on Earth. b. Design and build a structure that demonstrates how shadows change
throughout the day and this third grade standard S3P1. Obtain, evaluate, and communicate
information about the ways heat energy is transferred and measured. c. Use tools and everyday
materials to design and construct a device/structure that will increase/decrease the warming
effects of sunlight on various materials.

Conferences:
This budget includes money allocated for the SLMS to attend conferences for further learning.
Each year they will attend the Georgia Educational Technology Conference and Georgia’s
Conference on Children’s Literature at the University of Georgia. These two conferences will
allow the media specialist to learn about new technology resources and books that can help her
collaborate with other staff members. It will allow for NFE to make sure they are using up to
date, relevant resources, and literature.

Collaborations:
Collaboration between the media center and classrooms is very important. That is why in the
purposed budget there is this category. The librarian will use these funds to bring in authors
either in person or virtually to talk with students about the importance of reading and to allow
students to ask the author questions about the writing and publishing process. With this budget,
we can also take some virtual field trips using the orb camera and Field Trip Zoom. This will be
especially helpful in our Title I school since students’ ability to pay for traditional field trips is
limited.

Technology:
In 2019-2020, the budget allows for the library to obtain a nice video camera and tripod. The
next year, the money will be used to buy a green screen and sound board. In the final year, the
money will purchase a table microphone, two Blu-ray players, and two listening stations with a
CD player and 4 headphones with each station. All these materials will be used in the
Makerspace area but also used for the morning broadcast news show called Echo News which is
produced by the media specialist and the technology specialist along with 4th and 5th graders. The
video camera and tripod, green screen, sound board, and microphone will help meet GSE
standards in all grades in English Language Arts listening and speaking standards with Science,
Social Studies, and Math content. For example, these items can be used for the GSE standard
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ELAGSE5SL5 Include multimedia components (e.g., graphics, sound) and visual displays in
presentations when appropriate to enhance the development of main ideas or themes. The two
Blu-ray players are needed to be able to play close-circuit videos to the school at one time. For
example, when the whole school needs to watch My Friend Martin around Martin Luther King,
Jr. Day. They are also used when a grade level needs to watch something together as well. The
two listening centers will be available for check out by teachers to use in their classrooms for
students, especially English Language Learners and EIP students because listening to expert
readers improves reading skills in emerging readers. The library already has book sets on CD
available for check out.

Online Subscriptions:
In the 2019-2020 budget, the media center will be able to buy a subscription to Powtoon and
Piktochart. These programs are great for students to practice writing and making sure that
illustrations add to the story and support the words they have written. These are two great
websites to ease students into writing online. The second year the budget allows us to add
Adobe Creative Cloud to our subscriptions. The new subscription opens up many editing tools.
In the third year, we will renew all three subscriptions plus be able to purchase TumbleBooks
which reads books and brings illustrations to life.

Supplies:
The final $500 each year will be for miscellaneous supplies. It will be reserved for book
processing and repairs, basic office supplies, medals, prizes, and certificates for students meeting
reading goals, as well as buying a bookbinding machine for teachers who want to create class
books. The remaining money will be reserved for other unforeseen expenses.