Welcome to the Bowdon Middle School Media Center
Media Specialist
I am incredibly excited to be at Bowdon Middle. I am a 2005 graduate of Bowdon High School and was in the first ever 8th grade class at Jonesville Middle. I spent 14 years teaching high school Spanish of varying levels. I have focused on improving literacy and proficiency skills in my students’ second language, and now I get to continue to do the same in their first. I believe school and learning should be exciting and it’s up to us to create a place where students want to be.
I graduated from The University of Georgia and love any-and-everything UGA, but especially football. I have a wonderful husband, Lanny Smith, who is also involved in the Bowdon community and two children, Greyson, a student at BMS and Emery Kate, who attends BES. We also have three fur children, Daisy, and Kirby Smart, and Charlie.
When I’m not at school, I love to travel the world, read, cook, decorate, and watch sports. I also love to be creative and make new things. I so look forward to being a Bowdon Red Devil again!
- The Media Center is open to students from 7:45 AM to 3:25 pPM each day.
- Students may check out one book per day
- Library books are due back 2 weeks after being checked out
- At the end of the two weeks, students have a one week grace period before they start accruing a fine. Fines are 10 cents per day and cap at $3.00.
- Students may not check out if they have an overdue book or owe a fine

Beanstack
What is Beanstack?
- Beanstack is an online reading platform where students can track their reading, participate in challenges, and earn badges and rewards. It makes reading fun and engaging by turning it into a game-like experience while encouraging lifelong reading habits.
How do students access Beanstack?
There are two ways students can access Beanstack to log what they read:
- By logging onto to Clever with their school Google credentials. In Clever, students will see an app titled "Beanstack." They can click the app and gain access to their Beanstack account to log their reading.
- There is a Beanstack mobile app. If students have a cell phone, they can download the Beanstack app and connect it to their school credentials and log their reading from home.
Beanstack Integrity Policy
We expect all reading logs to be honesty and accurate. Any entry that is flagged for review by Beanstack for being false, misleading, etc. will be deleted. Students are encouraged to record only the books and reading they have truly completed.
Beanstack Incentives
Students will have a variety of incentives throughout the year for completing reading challenges. These incentives could be fun experiences like field trips, movie afternoons, and extra recess, or physical incentives like candy and other prizes. The students who make the leaderboard for the school for the most reading will be displayed on the TVs throughout the school for recognition.