Wheeler Media Center

This Week in the Media Center

The media center is now open every day until 3:30 PM!

All students are welcome in the media center after school to do homework, read, socialize, play games, use the makerspace, or participate in student-led clubs. The main library area, quiet study room, and green screen room will all be open and available. Sports teams and clubs must reserve the media lab classroom in advance.

First full week of school:
August 31-September 4, 2026

Makerspace Activity

Glitter slime

Tea Area

New Books!

Lots of great new romance, non-fiction, self help, mysteries, and memoirs!

Quiet Study Room

You asked, we answered! The media lab classroom is now open during most study hall blocks for student use

Writing Lab

Need writing or research help? Visit the media center on Thursdays during break time

Self Care Station

Help yourself to anything you need: hair elastics, saline solution, breath strips, and more!

Food For Thought

"A poster telling us to reach out doesn’t answer the questions running through our heads: Who do I go to? Will the conversation get repeated? What happens after I say it? Will I get pulled out of class, flagged, or treated differently by the friends and teachers who now 'know'?"

-Why ‘Just Ask for Help’ Isn’t Enough for Teens—and What Schools Can Do Instead, EdWeek

"If I have the phone, the minute there's downtime, that's what I'm doing," she says. "I'm not learning all the downstream steps that I can do that make you more valuable in the workplace."

-For young Americans, the workplace is the new phoneless frontier. 'It allows us to hyper focus on the task at hand,' says employer, CNBC

"We tend to think of conflict as antagonistic, but conflict can actually be incredibly prosocial. So, very simply, it’s checking in and saying, Do I care about this relationship? And counterintuitively, if I do, let me get in there."

-An Expert on Conflict Says Your Relationships Are Doomed Without It, The New York Times

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