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New JEA mentors learn strategies to use in their work with new media advisers

Envisioning what makes a quality teacher, new mentor Vicki Brennan from Florida explains her group’s list of what this teacher would feel about students or instruction. The new mentors are participating in training at the JEA Advisers Institute. The JEA mentor training incorporates many of the active learning strategies used by the New Teacher Center‘s...

New mentors training at JEA Advisers Institute in Las Vegas

      Mentor training is underway at the JEA Advisers Institute in Las Vegas. New Wyoming mentor Katherine Patrick and new Nebraska mentor Bob Bair sort possible strategies for helping new teachers. The mentor trainers are Mentor Committee members Linda Barrington, Bill Flecthner and Gary Lindsay. – Linda Barrington reporting from the training session...

Mentors meet with Outreach Academy participants in Denver

Mentors and Mentor Committee members joined the participants in the Outreach Academy for lunch at the JEA/NSPA Convention in Denver. The JEA Outreach Academy is a program to provide training and support for new high school and middle school media advisers. Some are new teachers, and some are experienced teachers but new to working with student...

Mentor Program updates at JEA/NSPA Convention in Denver – report and newsletter

Linda Barrington presented a report about the Mentor Program to the mentors during the Mentor Forum at the JEA/NSPA Convention in Denver, April 16. One way the Mentor Program explains its activities and recruits participants is through a semi-annual newsletter, which Linda edits. The newsletter is published to coincide with the JEA/NSPA conventions. Mentors request...

Mentoring Matters Spring 2015 – Read latest updates about JEA Mentoring Program

The Spring 2015 edition of Mentoring Matters includes: Teamwork of JEA Mentoring Program and scholastic press associations Map of where JEA mentors are working with new advisers Profile data of mentees Mentees’ comments about their experiences working with JEA mentors Click on this link for the newsletter — Mentoring_Matters_Spring_2015 You can read previous issues of the newsletter...

4 tips for maintaining mentor-mentee connection

by Linda Barrington JEA Mentoring Committee chair All too often, mentors tell me they have difficulty staying in contact with their mentees. This probably doesn’t happen when the mentor teaches in the same school or district.  But JEA mentors are retired teachers who are working with mentees all over their state and sometimes across the...

Former JEA mentee Jennifer Erxleben awarded with Bruce E. Konkle Rising Star Award from South Carolina Scholastic Press Association

News release from the South Carolina Scholastic Press Association The South Carolina Scholastic Press Association awarded Jennifer Erxleben of South Florence High School the Bruce E. Konkle Rising Star Award for her work in the field of journalism. The award was presented at the SCSPA Fall Conference on Oct. 6. Karen Flowers, the Director of...

New teachers can benefit from mentor models in their classrooms

By Linda Barrington, MJE JEA Mentor Program chair I always listen to Nick Ferentinos when it comes to mentoring. A retired journalism teacher and master mentor for the New Teacher Center in Santa Cruz, Calif., Nick and Steve O’Donoghue (California Scholastic Jouralism Initiative) brought the idea of a Mentor Program to JEA in 2007. So...

Use blogs as a communication tool in your mentoring

by Kay Windsor North Carolina mentor For some of us, the word blog (shortened from web log) may conjure ideas of writers who shout opinions and political views. But many kinds of blogs, not necessarily political or abrasive, can offer ideas or inspiration. WordPress, one of the hosts for free sites for blogs, had 60...
Appleton North High School (Wisconsin) principal removes prior review

Appleton North High School (Wisconsin) principal removes prior review

by Linda Barrington, mentor, and Aaron Ramponi, mentee Linda: When Aaron Ramponi asked me to be his mentor two years ago, he prepared me for the meeting with his principal by telling me that Appleton North High School’s student newspaper was under prior review. Aaron: Censorship had been the practice of the school’s administration since...

‘Blogging and Building Community’ – rescheduled from Friday, March 7, due to ice storm

by Julie Dodd Join Kay Windsor for her webinar on “Blogging and Building Community.” The webinar will be held on Friday, March 7, 3 to 4 p.m. (EST). You can register for the webinar by clicking on this link. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. You’ll also...

Oregonian and ASCD provide shoutout to JEA Mentoring Program

by Julie Dodd JEA Mentoring Committee The JEA Mentoring program received a shoutout both from The Oregon and from ASCD’s SmartBrief, with a story about the success of a high school media program thanks, in part, to a JEA mentor. “Print journalism alive and well at Banks High School, where newspaper program is growing” is...