Brittany Alexander

Interview #1

I interviewed Becky Pugh from Lee Street Elementary School. Mrs. Pugh is my site

supervisor and she has allowed me to shadow her this semester. She has truly been a huge help.

So I thought it would be easier to start the interview process with her.

Mrs. Pugh has been working in the Lee Street Elementary Media Center for five years.

She was a classroom teacher for twelve years before transitioning over to the Media Center. She

informed me the reaching for her moving on and getting her degree was due to the previous

Media Specialist wanting to retire. He felt that she would be a great candidate and encouraged

her to go back to school to get her degree. Mrs. Pugh received her Media Specialist degree from

Georgia Southern University. Mrs. Pugh’s job responsibilities are to keep and maintain all books

at Lee Street Elementary. She also has to monitor and keep track of the Destiny system which

helps keep track of all Lee Street books. Shelve books in the Media Center. She also helps

teachers find reading sources to use in the classrooms that go with a certain subject that they are

teaching. With technology responsibilities, she has to do technology once a month with staff

members as well as attend a technology meeting for herself so that she is able to train the staff.

Besides her daily responsibilities, she makes sure to meet the needs of her students, parents,

teachers, and staff members. To meet the needs of teachers during remote learning, Mrs. Pugh

has been answering emails, phone calls, and text messages to better help faculty and staff. She

finds information to help teachers with teaching effectively online. If a teacher comes to help to

ask about a certain topic, Mrs. Pugh goes online to find different resources for that teacher and

sends the information through an email. She also meets students and parents during remote

learning, Mrs. Pugh does not have any issues with helping parents who are having issues with
technology. Mrs. Pugh stated that most of her assistance has gone to the young grades because

they are new to using computers by themselves at home and having issues with turning in

assignments. She has created Google Classrooms for each classroom so that the students are able

to access any materials they may need for class or to know for the Media Center. Mrs. Pugh is

one busy lady and she gave an example of what a daily activity would look like. Mrs. Pugh’s

daily activities include pulling stories for the students to read as well as find a visual video the

students can watch to go along with the book. She tries to make sure the stories she picks are on

the students’ level so that they can comprehend what is being told. Besides just being the Media

Specialist she has many opportunities to impact technology throughout the school year. She even

joked that technology was her middle name. She stated that Lee Street Elementary’s Media

Center is the hub for technology. She gave an example of if we were to go to the school, we

would see all the laptops from distribution from the beginning of the school year is in the Media

Center. She gave another example of if we were in the building and a teacher stated they were

having internet issues she tries to figure out the program before having to put in a technology

ticket. Mrs. Pugh like anyone else has to deal with good and bad things about her job. The best

part of Mrs. Pugh’s job is the students. She loves to see their faces when they hear a funny part

of a story and seeing that they enjoy a certain book. She said she misses seeing the children

every day in the building due to the pandemic. Some challenges Mrs. Pugh faces are she is not

able to physically put her hands on the computers if students are having trouble at home. She

states it is harder to see what they are doing wrong if you aren’t face to face with them. She said

she also has a challenge with placing the books back on the shelves because it is a never-ending

process. Also ordering books is an issue because she never knows what books we have and need.
 Overall, after interviewing Mrs. Pugh I see that she truly loves what she does on a daily

basis. I do see that she truly misses seeing her students face to face and can’t wait for them to

come back to the school. She showed me that a Media Specialist has many hats to fill and it’s up

to you to truly know how to handle the pressure. She makes sure she is there for everyone and I

am truly blessing to have her as my site supervisor.