Laurel Harris

Laurel is originally from Rexberg, Idaho. She earned a degree in elementary ed at BYU and then a Master's in Educational Library Systems and Media Resources from the University of Utah.

She recently read Mirrorscape by Mike Wilkes. (Beehive Book Award Recipient) Currently she is reading White Crow by Marcus Sedgwick and listening to Cryer's Cross by Lisa McCann. She loves mysteries and audio books. She feels that students like audiobooks for many of the same reasons adults do. “The actors can put vocabulary into a better context for students, including special education students, for better understanding”. Having just read Blood Red Road by Moira Young, she is recommending it to the Hungar Games crowd.

Jordan High School has a High Functioning Autistic unit. There are more special education students at Jordan High than any other school in the district. There are currently only about 1500 students there but when Laurel first came, there were about 2400.

She is very proud of her large Spanish collection. It spans several sacks.
She works hard to find intriguing ways to help the teachers find time to bring their students down by integrating her curriculum, like orienting the students and teachers to Destiny, with the classroom teacher curriculum, like WWI poets and trench warfare.

Laurel appreciates the support she gets from the school and the community.