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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...

Skits and Comics at Forum

With fifteen participants in the Mentor Forum, we have had several interactive, brainstorming opportunities.  If you are a mentor, you will know how creative your colleagues can be. Bill Fletchner was creative and asked the mentors to sing, dance or act what they believed mentoring to be like: an animal, a force of nature or...

JEA mentors and committee member recognized at JEA/NSPA awards luncheon

Congratulations: JEA Medal of Merit – Marie Parsons NSPA Pioneer Award – Linda Barrington and Martha Rothwell From the JEA/NSPA convention in Kansas City

JEA Mentor Radio

Today’s JEA Mentor Radio (previously known as our podcast) features one of our recent mentors, Carla Harris, interviewing “Geno” Van Gorder from Arlington High School  in Oregon. Carla’s interview with Gino will immediately grab your attention.  When Gino talks about students bringing shotguns to school, you can hear the alarm in Carla’s voice. Listen and...

Podcast #2: Mentor and Mentee discuss their communication strategies

Listen to the second JEA mentoring podcast either by clicking the audio player below or by visiting iTunes and subscribing to the JEAMentoring podcast there.  The Journalism Education Association Mentoring group is one of the first mentoring podcasts out there. Listen to an interview conducted by Julie Dodd with Kansas mentor Mary Anne McCloud and her...

Thinking Ahead: Planning to attend JEA Convention?

by Judy Robinson JEA Mentoring Committee A brief interview with Mary Anne McCloud at the Fall 2009 JEA Convention in Washington gives you yet another reason to put the convention date on your calendar. Nov. 11-14, 2010 – Kansas City April 14-17, 2011 – Anaheim Click to play and listen to Mary Anne’s experience. (Time:...

Latest Issue of JEA Mentoring Matters: PDF Available

Thanks to Linda Barrington for getting our JEA Mentoring Matters newsletter together. You may download the pdf by clicking on the image to the left or you may find it, with the previous issues, under the “Newsletter” tab at the top of this page. – Judy

Mentors to ‘Help Young Things Grow’

I believe. I believe when the Washington Post and the New York Times report that almost half of new teachers leave the profession within five years while we baby boomers are exiting in the hundreds of thousands. I believe widespread research that shows that the quality of teacher drives student achievement; I’ve always believed that in the...

First Mentors Participate in Training Workshop

PHILADELPHA — Ten veteran journalism teachers from five states kicked off JEA’s new mentoring program in a day-long training workshop at the JEA/NSPA fall 2007 convention. The mentors, representing Colorado, Kansas, Ohio, Oregon and Wisconsin, were hand-picked for the initial mentor training. Following the day of training, they return to their states to identify new...