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Ohio JEA mentees and former mentees help guide their students to 97 awards at Ohio Scholastic Media Association convention

by Wayne and Georgia Dunn Ohio mentors The Ohio Scholastic Media Association just completed their two-day convention. Six of our present and former mentees entered the various newspaper, broadcast, and yearbook contests. Those six schools garnered 97 awards. In addition, another of our mentees joined the board. That means that four mentees are now members...

ASNE Reynolds High School Journalism Institute provides great learning opportunity for new journalism teachers and advisers

by Julie Dodd Now is the time to apply for ASNE’s Reynolds High School Journalism Institute. The deadline is March 1. The two-week intensive workshop provides hands-on training for journalism teachers, including guest speakers and field trips and developing lesson plans. The Reynolds High School Journalism Institute is held at four different locations: June 15-27,...
'Principal's Guide to Scholastic Journalism' provides useful and concise information for advisers and administrators

‘Principal’s Guide to Scholastic Journalism’ provides useful and concise information for advisers and administrators

by Julie Dodd JEA Mentor Committee A must read for high school media advisers and their principals is The Principal’s Guide to Scholastic Journalism: What administrators need to know about student media. The newly updated publication is available in Web and PDF versions. The project was coordinated by Vanessa Shelton, executive director of Quill and...

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...

Linda Barrington receives Carl Towley Award; promotes value of JEA Mentoring Program

Linda Barrington received the Carl Towley Award at the JEA/NSPA convention in Boston. The award is JEA’s highest honor and is presented to a JEA member whose work is “unusually beneficial and of superior value to the national JEA and to scholastic journalism,” as the JEA website explains. Linda has contributed to scholastic journalism in...

Tinker Tour puts a face on landmark Supreme Court decision regarding student First Amendment rights

by Linda Barrington JEA Mentor Committee co-chair JEA Wisconsin mentor High school students met Mary Beth Tinker, one of the three people who filed the lawsuit resulting in the Tinker v. Des Moines (1969) Supreme Court decision, affirming students’ First Amendment right to express their opinions in school. These student journalists hadn’t yet been born...

Leadership for students and teachers promoted by high school media programs

by Jess Young Newspaper and yearbook adviser Orange Glen High School, Escondido, Calif. “Graduated” JEA mentee A good teacher never takes the mouse. That was the mantra instilled in my by my high school journalism teacher, Gwen Bartlett. At the time, it was an annoying little chant that she called into our newspaper room, from...

Mentoring provides a recipe for collaboration

by Linda Barrington Mentoring Committee co-chair, Wisconsin mentor I love baking cakes and pies and cookies, and I need a plan, a recipe to follow — faithfully.  My husband, on the other hand, likes to cook. He’ll start with a recipe and then experiment, changing some ingredients, removing others and adding more spices.  Lasagna, for...

Linda Barrington named JEA’s Carl Towley Award winner

by Julie Dodd Mentoring Committee Congratulations to Linda Barrington for her selection as JEA’s Carl Towley Award winner for 2013. Linda, co-chair of the Mentoring Committee, will receive the award at the Awards Luncheon at the JEA/NSPA convention in Boston on Saturday, Nov. 16. The Carl Towley Award is JEA’s highest award and recognizes individuals...

Model newspaper staff manual helps new advisers develop their own staff manuals

by Julie Dodd JEA Mentoring Committee Coordinating a media class certainly has some differences from coordinating other classes you might teach. In a more traditional class, students may all be working on the same assignment. They could be reading a novel and working toward writing an essay on the book. In a media class, most...

JEA mentors enjoy camaraderie offered in mentor training at JEA/NSPA conventions

by Julie Dodd Mentoring Committee co-chair The JEA/NSPA conventions are when we provide training the new mentors and extended training for the experienced mentors. More than 25 mentors and Mentor Committee members attended the JEA/NSPA convention in San Francisco, April 25-27. Following a full day of training on Thursday, the mentors and committee members enjoyed...

Sending news release to local media lets you promote the success of your students

by Georgia and Wayne Dunn JEA Mentors, Ohio We were some pretty proud mentors at the Ohio Scholastic Media Association convention when OSMA executive director Candace Perkins Bowen announced the awards. Seven of our present and former mentees entered their students in individual contests, and their students won 226 awards! Here are two tips for advisers:...