Mentoring Monday: Help your mentees make plans to attend JEA/NSPA convention in San Antonio
by Julie Dodd JEA Mentoring Committee co-chair Now’s the time to be making arrangements to attend the Journalism Education Association/National Scholastic Press Association convention in San Antonio, Nov. 15-18. JEA mentors, you can play a major role in making a trip to the convention possible for your mentees and their students. 1) Make your mentees...
Mentoring Monday: The Mentor Toolbox — I Love the Collaborative Assessment Log
By Linda Barrington, MJE JEA Mentoring Committee co-chair, JEA Wisconsin mentor One of the things I like best about the JEA Mentor Program is its emphasis on tailoring each mentoring experience to the needs of the individual mentee. Even though I may not have experienced the same situations and struggles as each of them, I...
Mentoring Monday: Guide to Broadcast and Video now available
by Julie Dodd JEA Mentoring Committee co-chair Good news for broadcast and video advisers. Members of the JEA Digital Media Committee have created a Guide to Broadcast and Video to be a resource for advisers who are working broadcast or video. The guide is set up in sections that make it easy to find the...
Mentoring Monday: JEA Mentoring Program provides opportunity for mentors to become a team and friends
By Julie Dodd JEA Mentoring Committee co-chair When we developed the concept of the JEA Mentoring Program five years ago, we envisioned that each state participating in the program would have at least two participating mentors. Our thought was that having at least two mentors from the same state would foster teamwork. Alabama mentors Jo...
Teamwork involved in planning workshops for mentors
The Mentor Forum for experienced mentors and the Mentor Academy for new mentors required teamwork. Mentor Committee members (left to right in photo) Mary Anne McCloud, Bill Flechtner, Nick Ferentinos, Judy Robinson and Peggy Gregory led discussions and group activities on topics ranging from recruiting new teachers to using smartphone and iPad apps.
Mentoring Monday: Student media creates valuable friendships
Editor’s note: A year ago, the Journalism Education Association/National Scholastic Press Association convention was in Anaheim. The convention co-chairs were Jolene Combs and Konnie Krislock. We in the JEA Mentoring Program were especially proud of their work, as they were mentors in the program. They put on a great convention – in part because they...
7 Reasons why you’ll love the Mobile Guide to Seattle JEA/NSPA convention
by Judy Robinson JEA Mentoring Committee If you have a mobile device — Android, iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch — you’ll love the new mobile Seattle convention guidebook. It’s a new resource for this year’s convention as explained on the StudentPress blog. I look forward to fitting this mobile guide into my purse. No more forgetting my heavy...
Mentoring Monday: Join us for CoverItLive conversation about the JEA Mentoring Program, March 26
by Julie Dodd JEA Mentoring Committee co-chair We hope you’ll be online Monday (March 26) evening to be part of the CoverItLive conversation about the JEA Mentoring Program. Our time is 7 to 8 p.m. (CDT). Linda Barrington, Judy Robinson and I will be the producers for the online (typed) conversation. The image at the...
Mentoring Monday: Mentor guides discussion of newspaper staff, adviser and administrators on student press rights and professional responsibility
By Konnie Krilslock California Mentor Returning to the Laguna Beach High School journalism classroom two years after completing my assignment as mentor to adviser James Brusky, I noticed little had changed. The small staff was enthusiastic and engaged, the bulletin boards were papered with more than three years of laminated Brush & Palette front pages...
Mentoring Monday: Alabama mentee guides literary magazine staff to national recognition
JEA mentee Tanya Bowman learned just before the holidays that the 2011 issue of Spectrum, the literary magazine she advises, had earned a Columbia Scholastic Press Association Gold Medalist designation. Bowman teaches at Huntsville (Ala.) High School and is in her second year as adviser to Spectrum and first year as JEA mentee of Nora...
Judy Robinson receives NSPA Pioneer Award
Judy Robinson (center) received NSPA Pioneer Award at the Advisers’ Awards Luncheon at the JEA/NSPA convention. She received award from Monica Hill (left) and Linda Drake. Digital Judy is a member of the JEA Mentor Committee.