Leigh Rogers, a fifth-year publications adviser and English teacher at Hermann High School, Hermann, Missouri has been honored as a promising journalism educator. She advises the Paragon Yearbook and The Blue Review newspaper https://www.thebluereview.info. Beginning in 2017 the Missouri Interscholastic Press Association has recognized promising new journalism educators with the Emerging Journalism Educator of the Year Award....
Four current JEA mentors have recently been awarded national recognition. Casey Nichols, Konnie Krislock and Stan Zoeller were announced as winners of JEA’s Lifetime Achievement Awards. While serving on JEA’s awards committee Casey Nichols, MJE, had the honor of introducing JEA Lifetime Achievement honorees, and now presumably, someone else will be the one to say...
JEA Mentoring has recently made a number of significant changes in the way Mentors need to communicate. Mentoring Chair Patrick Johnson said thet there were a number of reasons for making these changes: JEA is transitioning as an organization to Google Suites; Mentoring will be the first group to move there. Increased organization and the...
Fall Semester report deadline is Feb. 15 Mentoring chair Patrick Johnson has recently reminded us that we need to report our Mentoring activities for first semester no later than Feb. 15, 2019. Links to the forms To do so, we need to complete this form for each one of our mentees. Additionally, Patrick will use...
Thank you all for completing the new End of Semester form for mentor reports for Fall 2017 semester. I hope you found the process workable for you. On the committee’s end, it is proving to be a much more effective way to access your reports. If you have any comments or suggestions on the process,...
With a nation-wide teacher shortage looming on the horizon, educators should be asking if there is a set of best practices for effectively bringing new teachers into our schools. Is there a best way to bring teachers into the profession? The question has been answered affirmatively by an old friend of JEA Mentoring, the New...
JEA Mentors, please use the new Google form to report your semester’s mentoring activities. The form will help you organize your information. The information will automatically go to JEA Mentoring, but there is no easy way to direct this to your SPA or others you wish to have the information. Because of this, we recommend...
The fall 2017 edition of Mentoring Matters includes: New mentors hone their mentoring skills Meet the 2017 class of mentors Mentoring committee share program responsibilities Best advice from my mentors Mentee exit surveys show how mentoring helped them Click on this link to download the issue as a PDF — Mentoring Matters Fall 2017 for web...
The Mentoring Committee has developed a Google form to use for reporting your mentoring activities. This calls for essentially the same information JEA Mentors have been reporting on their narrative reports, but the new form will make it easier for Mentors to do their reports and for the committee to compile the information it needs....
Mary Anne’s Top Digital Resources JEA Digital Media: This incredible resource offers one-stop shopping for all things media curated by JEA’s Digital Media Committee. National Scholastic Press Association and of course JEA connects student journalists through critiques, competitions and conventions. Student Press Law Center is the best source of information on student press rights, censorship...
Colorado mentor Shelia Jones has shared some good news about her mentee Hannah Shapiro, of Eagle Valley High, Gypsum, Colorado. After Shapiro’s broadcast video kids were named finalists for a Pacemaker they were featured in an article in the Vail Daily September 19. The article quoted Shapiro saying, “It’s the scholastic Pulitzer Prize.” The article...
Kate Plows, CJE, art and journalism adviser at Malvern (PA) Preparatory School has been twice honored recently, earning both JEA’s Rising Star Award and as the 2017 Pennsylvania Journalism Teacher of the Year. Plows advises The Blackfriar Chronicle, and the digital publication, The Friar’s Lantern at the Malvern, Pennsylvania school. Plows, in her 14th year...
