Field Interview #3 - Newnan High School - Tracie Drake - High School Media Specialist

Date: 10/6/20

1. Name of technology coordinator being interviewed.

Tracie Drake - Newnan High School - 10th grade -12th grade Library

2. What is your title?

High School Media Specialist

3. What type of degree is required for your position?

Masters are required in media and instructional technology

4. What are your job responsibilities?

During Covid - Chromebooks - Classes are not allowed to come to the library right now. Principal goes
by the rules, 2 separate media centers, meeting parents at the door & making appointments, 50 to 60
repairs a week.
Normally - mainly work with ELA, orientations showing them where reference and resources, helping
with citing sources for research

5. How are you meeting the needs of faculty and staff during the transition to remote learning this
semester?
Classes are not allowed to come to the library right now. Being available for troubleshooting for
parents & students. Be the “go to” person for teachers

6. How are you meeting the remote learning needs of students and parents?
New students and returning students chromebooks, troubleshooting, checking in and out loaner
chromebooks

7. What are typical daily activities for your job?

Chromebook repairs, Chromebook check in and out, troubleshooting

8. Do you have a budget that you control? How do you make decisions on selecting resources for your
stakeholders?
County Budget split between 2 libraries, books that teachers sent for ELA, Peach Book Awards
(Georgia), blog, approvals for movies and challenge books

9. Have you had an opportunity to impact technology implementation throughout your school? Would
you describe a specific example?
Not much, that is more the jobs of instructional coaches.

10. Does your school have a technology committee?

No tech committee.
11. How are technology decisions made?
There is a committee at the county level that makes the decisions.

12. What is the best part of your job?

Flexibility of instruction, being able to do what I want as far as instruction goes. No set curriculum to
teach.

13. What do you find to be the most challenging part of your job?
Flexibility is also the challenging part because there is too much freedom, no guidelines for
instruction, and make up what students need as they go.

14. Where were the counselors before their offices moved to the media center? Why did they move all of
the counselors to the library?

The school has 13 different buildings and therefore things are very spread out. Students had to walk
all over the place to get what they needed. The school came up with the plan to rebrand the media
center as the “Student Center.” All the counselors are in one spot along with the library and Elevate
(backpack buddies.) When new students come it is a one stop shop. They can check in with the
counselors and get their Chromebooks.