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FALL 2013
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ADVISER UPDATE
‘A fall of anticipation’
By Candace Perkins Bowen
& John Bowen
A
lthough journalism
programs have been in
full swing since August
and September, new teaching
and content materials continue
to appear. This fall some major
journalistic resources have been
updated and some new ones
created.
We thought we would take this
column to make you more aware
of them, in what we call “A Fall of
Anticipation.” Check these out.
✔SPRC
Constitution
Day lessons
and activities
A variety
pack of six
lessons
make up this
Constitution Day package now
available online at http://jeasprc.
org/constitution-day-2013teaching-materials-and-lessons/ .
These lessons and activities
focus on issues of sourcing for
student media. The lessons
have legal, ethical and contentbased angles, including a lesson
aimed at helping students build
policy guidelines based on
what journalists mean when
they talk of responsibility and
accountability.
Links to Constitution Day
materials designed the last two
years also are there.
Constitution Day, mandated
by Congress to be Sept. 17 each
year, is designed to help students
celebrate the Constitution and
Bill of Rights. The commission
ties the concepts directly to
journalistic issues.
✔Quill and Scroll’s The
Principal’s Guide to
Scholastic Journalism
The print updated version is due
Nov. 1; online version is available
now.
Significant changes include
tying the value of scholastic
PRESS RIGHTS
journalism to Common Core and
P21 standards.
The booklet – and added,
updateable website version –
contain new sections on social
media and online journalism.
Law and ethics areas are
updated. The Principal’s Guide
provides a handy reference
and orientation to scholastic
journalism for teachers as well
as administrators, especially
new administrators and maybe
even school board members,
too. The booklet version will be
available about Nov. 1 at http://
quillandscroll.org.
The online version, with an
introduction by JEA’s 2012