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From the Mentor Forum at the JEA/NSPA convention in Washington, DC

JEA mentors work with new advisers at JEA/NSPA convention in Washington, D.C.

JEA mentors work with new advisers at JEA/NSPA convention in Washington, D.C.

Members of the JEA Mentoring program met with Outreach participants during the Journalism Education Association/National Scholastic Press Association convention being held in Washington, D.C. The goal of the team meeting was to provide an opportunity for the new advisers and the JEA mentors to talk about how to successfully work with school administrators. In addition...

Mentoring Matters for Fall 2014

Here’s the Fall 2014 editor of Mentoring Matters that provides highlights of the JEA Mentoring Program — Mentoring_Matters_Fall_2014 Stories include: How JEA mentors help mentees navigate their first journalism convention. JEA mentees who attended the ASNE Reynolds Institutes last summer. Former JEA mentee Josh Smalley, who now teaches journalism at Almaty International School in Kazakhstan....

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...

Meet the new 2014 JEA mentors

by Bill Flechtner JEA Mentoring Committee For the first time, new JEA mentors were trained as a part of the JEA Advisers Institute in Las Vegas in July. Previously, mentors had been trained at the JEA/NSPA conventions. Linda Barrington and I led the training session in Las Vegas. Here is an introduction to the mentors,...

Google Drive changes the way we teach

by Gary Lindsay JEA Mentoring Committee Iowa mentor In the two years since I last taught my summer writing seminar for teachers, the use of Google Drive has become widespread, and that has radically changed how I conducted the course I taught this summer at the University of Iowa Summer Journalism Workshops. In one response...

Thanks to Julie Dodd & Judy Robinson for contributions to JEA Mentoring Program

by Peggy Gregory Mentoring Committee We want to say thank you to JEA Mentoring Committee co-chair Julie Dodd and Committee member Judy Robinson for their friendship and their extraordinary roles on the committee. Julie Dodd After serving as Mentoring Committee co-chair since its inception in 2007 and fulfilling various roles on the JEA Board for...

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...

New 2014 JEA mentors train at JEA Advisers Institute

Five of the cohort of new JEA mentors arrived in Las Vegas for the new mentor training. From left to right: Sue Farlow (North Carolina), Phyllis Cooper (North Carolina), Carol Eanes (North Carolina), Nancy Olson (Vermont) and Stan Zoller (Illinois). Mike Riley (Wyoming) is not pictured, as his flight had been delayed. The mentors got...
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...
Attending JEA/NSPA convention provides motivation, team-building and more

Attending JEA/NSPA convention provides motivation, team-building and more

by Julie Dodd Attending a professional conference can take a lot of effort. Whether a teacher is taking a group of students to a conference, a student is attending a conference, or a JEA mentor is attending a conference, planning, logistics and funding are involved. But the benefits of attending a professional conference, like a...

From the Mentor Forum at the JEA/NSPA convention in San Diego

Mary Anne McCloud leads mentors in a reflection of Aaron Manfull’s social media session. Mentors gained a better understanding of how to use Twitter and other sites. Bill Flechtner from his iPhone