The JEA mentors are meeting in the Mentor Forum during the Journalism Education Association/National Scholastic Press Association convention in San Diego, Calif. This is the first of several updates from the Forum. Marilyn Chapman and Carol Smith listen to Candace Bowen discuss editorial policies during the Mentor Forum in San Diego. Bill Flechtner from his...
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...
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Mar 21, 2014 • If you missed Kay Windsor’s webinar on “Blogging and Building Community,” you can watch the webinar now. Just click on the play button on the screen below. The webinar is about 30 minutes. Thanks to Kay for the helpful webinar. Topics included: How participating in a blog community can be as simple as clicking a...
by Julie Dodd Join Kay Windsor for her webinar on “Blogging and Building Community.” The webinar will be held on Wednesday, March 19, 3 to 4 p.m. (EDT). The webinar is rescheduled from the previous date (March 7). An ice storm in North Carolina knocked out the electricity at Kay’s home. We’re hoping for more...
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...
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,...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
