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Mentoring Matters: Three ways JEA mentors provide assistance to new journalism teachers

Be sure to check out the Spring 2011 edition of Mentoring Matters, the newsletter of the Journalism Education Association Mentoring Program. Mentoring Matters has been published twice a year, beginning in the Fall of 2008, and serves as both an overview to the program and as a snapshot of the program from semester to semester. The...

Randy Swikle on a Protocol for a Free & Responsible Student Media

Protocol for a Free & Responsible Student News Media – McCormick Foundation By Peggy Gregory Mentor Randy Swikle presented a newly published protocol for resolving conflict to the mentors at the Kansas City JEA/NSPA fall convention. Published by the McCormick Foundation, “The protocol was developed to help student journalists and school administrators build relationships that...

Steve O’Donoghue steps off Mentoring Committee to devote time to McCormick Foundation program in LA

by Julie Dodd JEA Mentoring Committee co-chair Steve was right there at the start of the idea of the JEA mentoring program. At the Scholastic Press Association roundtable at the JEA/NSPA convention in Denver, he and California colleague Nick Ferentinos discussed their mentoring efforts for new journalism teachers in California. Others, including Linda Barrington (Wisconsin)...