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(he/him) Student media adviser. Social justice edu. On weekends, I go on road trips and obsess about my beard. Thoughts are my own.

Madrid, Spain
Joined April 2009
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JEA's Scholastic Journalism Week Student Poster Contest is now open through Sept. 14! Students are invited to submit original poster designs that visually illustrate the SJW 2027 theme: Start Here, Change Everything. $10 per entry. Read full requirements: jea.org/awards/scholastic-jo…
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JEA has scheduled next year’s Scholastic Journalism Week for Feb. 22-26, 2027. The week’s theme is “Start Here, Change Everything.” The SJW Student Poster Contest will run Aug. 10-Sept. 14. Read more about the theme and contest: jea.org/news/scholastic-jour…
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You can serve JEA as an elected board member. Five seats are open for the 2025-27 term. Declare your interest by Oct. 28: jea.org/board-information/el…
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SO HAPPY FOR YOU! Four Varsity Yearbook schools placed in the NSPA Best of Show category for yearbooks with 108-223 pages at the Spring National HS Journalism Convention in Kansas City. Congratulations!
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Congratulations to Arvada (Colorado) High School, one of 28 recipients of the 2024 First Amendment Press Freedom Award. It is Arvada's second year receiving the award. Read more: jea.org/wp/blog/2024/02/22/2… @ColoradoSMA @ArvadaAspires @JeffcoSchoolsCo
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Are you a First Amendment school? FAPFA is designed to identify and recognize high schools that actively support and protect First Amendment rights of their students and teachers. Apply by Dec. 15. jea.org/fapfa
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Applications are open for the First Amendment Press Freedom Award. Round one will take you a matter of minutes to submit. jea.org/wp/home/awards-honor…
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Are you a First Amendment school? FAPFA is designed to identify and recognize high schools that actively support and protect First Amendment rights of their students and teachers. Apply by Dec. 15. jea.org/fapfa
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Can this be the year that admin stops asking teachers to do busy work by writing the learning objective on the board?
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JEA president appoints Louisa Avery, MJE, as JEA awards chair. jea.org/wp/blog/2023/05/15/a…
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JEA seeks to hire a part-time journalism curriculum specialist with experience teaching, familiarity with WordPress, experience developing curriculum and with a history of professional development related to curriculum development. Learn more: jea.org/wp/home/for-educator…
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SAVE THE DATE: On Student Press Freedom Day, Feb. 23, 3 student journalists & I will be on this webinar to discuss our fight vs censorship last year. Please share with student journalists (high school & college level) & any journalism educators. Thanks! pen.org/event/refusing-censo…
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Thank you, @GovofCO, for proclaiming February as Career & Technical Education Month in the State of Colorado! We appreciate your support of #CareerTechEd, which provides relevant & rigorous education that is connected, responsive & real! #CTEmonth #CTEworks4CO #coleg
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JEA names Kristi Rathbun, MJE, of Rock Canyon High School, the 2022 H.L. Hall National Yearbook Adviser of the Year. Read more: jea.org/wp/blog/2022/12/20/r… @RCRockmedia @RockCanyonHS @dcsdk12 @ColoradoSMA
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As an HR leader, my goal is simple…remove barriers for our educators of color to enter the profession! Will you join me?
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Add these important #nhsjc dates to your calendar or to-do list. Registration opens next week: fall.journalismconvention.or… @journalismstl @MIPAjournalism
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CCNMA and its journalism allies write top LAUSD officials including @LAUSDSup, @SCOTTATLAUSD to protest the suspension of Daniel Peal High Journalism advisor @adrianachavira who refused to censor her student reporters. @SPJLA, @ONA (LA), @NPPA, @RTDNA
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So… Daniel Pearl High School is literally named after a slain journalist, yet the school district admin attempts to censor student journalists @ThePearlPost and when they can’t, they suspend their nationally recognized award-winning adviser!? Shameful. #StandWithPearl #LAUSD – at West Linn, OR
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Outreach Academy is a free, intensive one-day seminar during the fall #NHSJC for new media advisers. Outreach Academy provides foundations in teaching and advising students in journalism while dealing with issues surrounding diversity. Apply by Oct. 1: jea.org/wp/home/news-events/…
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