A historic Charleston single house on our campus was renovated in 2014 and transformed into the Moore Learning Center. This learning resources space is completely devoted to 21st-century learning strategies: creativity, collaboration, innovation and communication.
Modern art and light fixtures, brightly colored walls, and portable furniture create a vibrant, energetic learning resource space. The building accommodates small group sessions, green screen technology projects, one-on-one tutoring, and other options for academic support.
Our Learning Services program provides support to faculty and students by utilizing a variety of strategies and research-based practices to ensure skills are generalized across settings. Our team employs data-based decision-making, and faculty and students are supported through flexible, short-term, skill-based groups.
Our school library serves several important purposes. The library fosters a love of reading by offering a diverse selection of books, including fiction and non-fiction, catering to various interests and reading levels. In fact, students and faculty check out more than 9,000 books in a school year! That’s a lot of reading.
When students are not browsing books or enjoying a read aloud or mystery book activity during library time, they might be participating in a technology class. Technology class activities vary depending on the age of the students. Students receive instruction on a range of skills from the basics of a slide show presentation to effective research methods, including how to find, evaluate, and use information from various digital and print sources.
Congratulations to our library media specialist, Mrs. Sarah Young, who is an active participant in the South Carolina Children’s Book Program and currently serves as vice-chair of the Book Awards Committee. The various Book Award Committees are tasked with annually formulating the SCASL Book Award Program nominee book lists. If you need a recommendation about what to read next, Mrs. Young will have a great book for you!
The library provides a filming location for The Clarion news program elective for 7th and 8th graders, and we offer an innovation area too. With robotics, circuits, building, and coding activities available, our media specialist and technology teacher work in tandem with our school’s science teachers to support classroom learning.
During their birthday months, Charleston Day students and faculty members each receive a book donated to the library in their honor. Our media specialist has a special cart of new books available at all times. Readers choose from the birthday cart jammed full of exciting new books.
Students can choose anything from nonfiction and adventure to popular new graphic novels. A name plate with the student’s name is placed in the front cover of the book. When the book returns to the library, each new reader will have a reminder of that child’s birthday.
We are grateful to Books-A-Million for their generosity in offering our annual holiday book fair and for sponsoring our Birthday Book program. 300 new books enter circulation through our Birthday Books program each year.
