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ADVISER UPDATE
STAFF— Dow Jones
News Fund National
High School Journalism
Teacher of the Year
Jim Streisel advises
the award-winning
newsmagazines and
website at Carmel (Ind.)
HS. The publications
produced by the
students have earned
the following honors:
CSPA Online Gold
Crown, NSPA Online
Pacemaker, Webby,
CSPA Silver and Gold
Crowns, Hoosier Star
and NSPA Hall of
Fame awards.
Last year, Streisel
received a Pioneer
Award from the National
Scholastic Press
Association and was
honored as a DJNF
Distinguished Adviser.
He has written two
texts, “High School
Journalism: A Practical
Guide” and “Scholastic
Web Journalism:
Connecting with
Readers in a
Digital Age.”
Update photos by Kyle
Crawford/HiLite
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Mo.; Derek Smith, Renton
HS, Renton, Wash.; and Ana
Rosenthal, The Hockaday
School, Dallas, Texas.
participation in its spring convention in New York City where he
will speak and present workshops.
The News Fund will also honor
four Distinguished Advisers and
three Special Recognition Advisers in Boston. These honorees
receive access to Poynter Institute webinars plus subscriptions
to WSJ.com courtesy of the publishers of The Wall Street Journal.
The Distinguished Advisers
are Jason Wallestad, BenildeSt. Margaret’s School, St. Louis
Park, Minn.; Jonathan Rogers,
City HS, Iowa City, Iowa; Charla
Harris, Pleasant Grove HS,
Texarkana, Texas; and Matthew
Schott, Francis Howell Central
HS, Cottleville, Mo.
The Special Recognition
Advisers are Michele Dunaway,
Francis Howell HS, St. Charles,
Streisel’s Background
Streisel holds a B.S. from Ball
State University with certification in secondary and middle
school journalism and English.
He is a certified and master
journalism educator through
the Journalism Education
Association. He has written
two texts, “High School Journalism: A Practical Guide” and
“Scholastic Web Journalism: Connecting with Readers in a Digital
Age,” both published by McFarland. He is a frequent speaker,
presenter and teacher at national
scholastic journalism conferences
and summer workshops including
Nebraska, Ball State, MIPA, Indiana and South Carolina.
Streisel was the Indiana Journalism Adviser of the Year and
Carmel Clay Schools Teacher of
the Year, both in 2011. Publica-
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GRAPHIC - Discussing an
infographic with junior Alex Yu
during class, HiLite adviser Jim
Streisel checks for readability. Each
year, the HiLite staff produces 10
issues of its monthly newsmagazine
and four issues of the Acumen and
updates its website (www.hilite.org)
several times per day.
tions he advises have won the
CSPA Online Gold Crown, NSPA
Online Pacemaker, Webby, CSPA
Silver and Gold Crowns, Hoosier
Star and NSPA Hall of Fame
awards.
Teachers collaborating
Carmel HS has a communications department which also
includes yearbook, a radio station and a television station.
Last year, they launched the
Greyhound Media Network
which partners broadcast,
di