Media Specialist (2024-2025)

Posted: June 13, 2024 Closed: June 30, 2024

Employment Opportunity: Oak Middle School
POSITION: Media Specialist
2024-2025 School Year

Shrewsbury Public Schools is currently accepting applications for a Media Specialist for Oak Middle School, effective with the 2024-2025 school year. Oak Middle School is a thriving grades 7 & 8 school in central Massachusetts.

The Media Specialist will ensure that seventh and eighth grade students are effective users of ideas and information, and empower students to be critical thinkers, enthusiastic readers, and ethical users of information. The Media Specialist will work to instill a love of learning in all students and ensure equitable access to information, and will align the School Library Program with the mission, goals and objectives of the school and school district. This position will report to the Director of Instructional Technology and Media Services and the Principal of Oak Middle School.

Shrewsbury Public Schools welcomes your interest in the role. We are dedicated to our mission, values, and strategic commitments!

We are interested in candidates who are invested in the achievement, equity, and access of all learners in and beyond the classroom.
Candidates with diverse racial, ethnic, cultural, religious, class, and/or gender background and experiences are strongly encouraged to apply.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Teaching, designing and assessing learning experiences that incorporate inquiry learning, critical thinking, and student self-assessment

• Collaborating with classroom teachers as a partner in the instructional process

• Promoting a love of reading and lifelong learning

• Serving on decision making teams, school improvement activities, presents at meetings

• Fosters a creative, flexible environment so that the media center is an essential part of the learning community

• Cooperating and networking with other libraries, agencies, and media centers

• Evaluating, promoting and using existing and emerging technologies to support teaching and learning

The Oak Middle School community serves students in grades seven and eight. Respect is our cornerstone, on which we build a school community where we:

• Demonstrate honesty, integrity, courtesy, and kindness.

• Act on the belief that effective effort is the key to success

• Engage in active learning that promotes understanding of our everchanging world

• Accept each individual unconditionally, honor our diversity, and help one another and the community

• Share the responsibility for continuous improvement and collaborate in order to maximize learning for all

• Celebrate effort, creativity, courage, and excellence

It is the goal of Oak Middle School that all students are prepared academically, socially, emotionally, and physically for success in high school and beyond.

Oak Middle School has a 1:1 iPad program for all students and uses Schoology as a learning management system.

The enrollment is generally 940+ students in grades 7-8.

Please find more information about Oak Middle School at https://schools.shrewsburyma.gov/oak

Find more information about Shrewsbury Public Schools at
https://schools.shrewsburyma.gov

Preferred:

• Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education license in Library, all levels.

• Strong knowledge of middle school student needs and programming

• Exhibits the core values of Shrewsbury Public Schools

• Works flexibly in a changing environment

Application Process:
Interested candidates should submit a cover letter, resume, official or unofficial copies of undergraduate/graduate transcripts, license # or unofficial copy of license if applicable, and three current professional letters of reference, including one from a direct supervisor, professor, or evaluator.

Please apply via www.schoolspring.com or via an email of your complete packet to Executive Director of Human Resources, Barb Malone, at bmalone@shrewsbury.k12.ma.us

The Shrewsbury Public Schools is an affirmative action employer, ensuring that its programs and facilities are accessible to the public. We do not discriminate on the basis of age, race, gender, religion, disability, gender identity, sex, pregnancy or pregnancy-related medical conditions, national origin, homelessness, marital status, sexual orientation, or any other status or class protected by state or federal law.