5 tips to battle burnout for advisers and their journalists
From subbing on your plan period to sources not emailing your student journalists back about interviews (yet you see them
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Staff Structure
We’ll be online-only next year, and that’s OK
The news arrived abruptly at the end of the 2020-21 school year: Starting in 2022-23, our school district was cutting
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4 months of school, 3 different teachers, 2 separate schools, and 1 converged group of high school journalists
There’s no question that the pandemic has drastically changed everything about the way your student media program operates in your
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Journalism program sees positive changes in move from traditional Journalistic Writing courses to Multimedia Communication Model
Change is hard. Change after 15 years? Now that can be downright painful. Yet that was the exact situation I
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Looking to get your staff content more organized using Google Drive? Michael Reeves shares his program’s system and online content calendar
A few weeks ago I shared a photo of a Google spreadsheet I was working on to help track what
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The Pandemic Changed Our Social Media Approach
Last spring, there was obviously a lot of change going on. But, there were also things in our journalism world
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Organize Your Staffs By Having Them Select a Major and a Minor
I have long organized my staffs and the work they do around the Rule of 3. With school changing so
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If you’re trying to figure out how to organize your classes this year, you might want to give serious consideration to the Flipped Classroom model
As I was having conversations this summer with colleagues the conversations most always turned to questions about how to make
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Tips for Transitioning Your Online Staff To What’s Going to Happen Next Year In Your Program and Preparing Editors for What’s Ahead
Let’s talk about transitions. It is about this time of the year when I start focusing my attention on what
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