Parents

September 2014

Dear Forest Avenue Families and Community,

Welcome! My name is Mrs. Francisco. I am the Forest Avenue school library media specialist (SLMS). With my passion for learning and books, I hope to help grow and encourage a lifelong love for reading. To that end, I plan to provide a robust library program where students are engaged in lessons that seamlessly make learning and reading both fun and interesting. In addition, with today’s ever-changing technological advances, I plan to assist our students in understanding and grasping the information literacy skills needed to both succeed and excel.

As Forest Avenue’s SLMS, I will both teach and guide students to inquire, research, process, evaluate, synthesize, discover,imagine, share and celebrate. I truly believe that learning is a continual journey where we are partners in meeting our children’s diverse needs. If we provide a solid, lifelong-learning foundation where both academics and social needs are nurtured and encouraged, our students will impact the community positively by becoming socially responsible productive members of our society. Please join me as we continue to learn and journey through the demands of the 21^st Century. I look forward to meeting you soon. Stop in the library and stay a while, I’ll be there with a smile.