PUBLICATION
Snipes, Phyllis, Sue Levine, and Jennifer Pope "Power in Collaboration: First Year Teacher and School Library Media Specialist Design and Deliver Visual Learner Styles Projects." GATEWays to Teacher Education, (Oct. 2015).
GRANTS EARNED/ AWARDED
★ Fulbright Distinguished Teacher Award Grantee (New Zealand) 2015-2016 to conduct research on best practices in creating inclusive and accessible school libraries from Feb.-June 2016
★ Georgia Association for Instructional Technology (GAIT) Innovation Mini Grant $1,850.00 “Building K’nexions”: A Design and Building Project between the librarian and gifted teacher. (2014)
★ RT3 (Race to the Top) "Collaboration Causes Learning" Grant winner ($10,000) to implement Google Nexus 7 pilot program to assist students and teachers in creating standards based multimedia projects. (2014)
★ Mackin Funds4Books Campaign $3,200 raised for school library books (2013 & 2014)
★ Donorschoose.org "Mobile Book Cart for Non Fiction Books-Early Readers $685.00
★ Donorschoose.org "Chromebooks for Coding" $2,200 raised to help students start a coding club. (2014)
★Dekalb County School District Liibrary Media Specialist of the Year 2014
★Donorschoose.org "Lectern with Sound and Document Camera" $800.00 raised to help students, teachers and community members do great presentations (2013)
★Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. $100.00 grant to be spent on a Donorschoose.org project for participating in the Scholastic Teacher Wall project (2012)
★ Donorschoose.org “4th Gen. IPOD for Mobile Podcasting” $310.00 raised to do on the go portable podcasting using the integrated microphone on this new IPOD model. (2011)
★ Donorschoose.org. “IPAD for Science, See the Stars” $500 raised for an IPAD2 for students to engage in science related technology activities (2011)
★ Donorschoose.org. “Flipping for a Flip Camera” $349.00 raised for a video camera to be used by our students for technology integrated projects (2010)
★ Donorschoose.org. “Storytime without a Rug is Like a Theater with No Seats” $562.00 raised for a storytime rug for the library media center (2009)
★ Promethean wand awarded to the library-media center to provide assistance to our “smallest technology users” (2010)
HONORS/AWARDS
★Board of Directors, Member at Large- GAIT (Georgia Association for Instructional Technology) 2014-current
★ Selected to attend DENSI2014 (Discovery Education Network Summer Institute) in Nashville TN.
★ 2014 Library Media Specialist of the Year- Dekalb County School District, Atlanta, GA
★ ISTE Review Team Member for the selection of the 2014 International Society for Technology in Education poster sessions.
★ Judge, Dekalb County Technology Fair (2010, 2011, 2012, 2014)
★ Kerpoof ™ Education Advisory Board (2011)
★ Judge, Georgia Media Festival (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014)
★ Discovery Education STAR Educator (2010, 2011,2012, 2013, 2014)
★ National Board Teacher Certification: Early-Middle Literacy/English-Language Arts (2006)
★ “Best Digital Print Emphasizing Light &Shadow” Photography Course (2005)
★ Pi Alpha Alpha (The National Honor Society for Public Affairs and Administration) (1993)
Snipes, Phyllis, Sue Levine, and Jennifer Pope "Power in Collaboration: First Year Teacher and School Library Media Specialist Design and Deliver Visual Learner Styles Projects." GATEWays to Teacher Education, (Oct. 2015).
GRANTS EARNED/ AWARDED
★ Fulbright Distinguished Teacher Award Grantee (New Zealand) 2015-2016 to conduct research on best practices in creating inclusive and accessible school libraries from Feb.-June 2016
★ Georgia Association for Instructional Technology (GAIT) Innovation Mini Grant $1,850.00 “Building K’nexions”: A Design and Building Project between the librarian and gifted teacher. (2014)
★ RT3 (Race to the Top) "Collaboration Causes Learning" Grant winner ($10,000) to implement Google Nexus 7 pilot program to assist students and teachers in creating standards based multimedia projects. (2014)
★ Mackin Funds4Books Campaign $3,200 raised for school library books (2013 & 2014)
★ Donorschoose.org "Mobile Book Cart for Non Fiction Books-Early Readers $685.00
★ Donorschoose.org "Chromebooks for Coding" $2,200 raised to help students start a coding club. (2014)
★Dekalb County School District Liibrary Media Specialist of the Year 2014
★Donorschoose.org "Lectern with Sound and Document Camera" $800.00 raised to help students, teachers and community members do great presentations (2013)
★Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. $100.00 grant to be spent on a Donorschoose.org project for participating in the Scholastic Teacher Wall project (2012)
★ Donorschoose.org “4th Gen. IPOD for Mobile Podcasting” $310.00 raised to do on the go portable podcasting using the integrated microphone on this new IPOD model. (2011)
★ Donorschoose.org. “IPAD for Science, See the Stars” $500 raised for an IPAD2 for students to engage in science related technology activities (2011)
★ Donorschoose.org. “Flipping for a Flip Camera” $349.00 raised for a video camera to be used by our students for technology integrated projects (2010)
★ Donorschoose.org. “Storytime without a Rug is Like a Theater with No Seats” $562.00 raised for a storytime rug for the library media center (2009)
★ Promethean wand awarded to the library-media center to provide assistance to our “smallest technology users” (2010)
HONORS/AWARDS
★Board of Directors, Member at Large- GAIT (Georgia Association for Instructional Technology) 2014-current
★ Selected to attend DENSI2014 (Discovery Education Network Summer Institute) in Nashville TN.
★ 2014 Library Media Specialist of the Year- Dekalb County School District, Atlanta, GA
★ ISTE Review Team Member for the selection of the 2014 International Society for Technology in Education poster sessions.
★ Judge, Dekalb County Technology Fair (2010, 2011, 2012, 2014)
★ Kerpoof ™ Education Advisory Board (2011)
★ Judge, Georgia Media Festival (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014)
★ Discovery Education STAR Educator (2010, 2011,2012, 2013, 2014)
★ National Board Teacher Certification: Early-Middle Literacy/English-Language Arts (2006)
★ “Best Digital Print Emphasizing Light &Shadow” Photography Course (2005)
★ Pi Alpha Alpha (The National Honor Society for Public Affairs and Administration) (1993)