GRATEFUL FOR YOU HOME Blog Watching yearbook staffs change their spring coverage midstream has been so heartwarming. I love seeing your completion posts and witnessing your resilience in the face of uncertainty. My heart is filled with gratitude for the teachers and students in my life — your posts remind me that this is an …
A WEB WE WEAVE HOME Blog Here’s a problem-solving and team-building activity I found in a book I really like, Teambuilding with Teens by Mariam G. MacGregor, M.S. The game reminds me of a game that my Girl Scout leaders (one of whom was my mom!) taught us: each of us in the web were …
BEST PRACTICE: KNOW THE LAW HOME Blog I wrote a paper called “Comparing School Press Freedoms in California and New Jersey” for a Media Law class at the University of Missouri in the Summer of 2013. Advisers in California and beyond ask me about the Leonard Law. I hope that this truncated version of my …
WHAT’S IN A NAME? HOME Blog Honestly, everything. Whether we were gifted our names by our parents, earned it from our friends, chose it for ourselves or gained it through love, our names signify our truest selves. Over the summer, a discussion of yearbook name-change policy came up. One adviser followed up with me to …
AP STYLE++ HOME Blog For the virtual Fall JEA/NSPA National High School Journalism Convention, I recorded an asynchronous workshop about AP Style and some of the additional style choices we make in school media. Please register — the workshop runs now through Jan. 15 — to see the entire presentation and to hear my little …
