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Charla Harris
FALL 2013
2013 DJNF Distinguished Advisers
Pleasant Grove HS, Texarkana
Texas
Service: Advises Edge
newspaper, PG Edge Online,
the Hawk yearbook and the
broadcast program PGTV
Education: M.S.,
interdisciplinary studies and
teacher certification (English,
history, journalism), East Texas
State University, Texarkana;
B.A., journalism, University of
Arkansas
Background: Harris serves as
regional representative for the
Texas Association of Journalism
Educators; judge and presenter
for the Columbia Scholastic Press
Association and the National
Scholastic Press Association.
She worked for the Prairie Grove
Enterprise weekly newspaper in
high school and college.
Issue facing scholastic
journalism: “I would love a
chance to meet with education
agency officials at the state level
across the country to talk about
journalism programs, to tell them
about my students and others
who have benefitted from working
on the yearbook and newspaper.
I’d love to show them some of the
publications students across the
country have produced this year.
It might not change their minds,
but I think they’d be impressed. I
know I am.”
Matthew Schott
ADVISER UPDATE
Francis Howell Central HS,
Cottleville, Mo.
Charla Harris
Matthew Schott
Service: Adviser to FHCToday.
com, Central Focus newspaper,
Odyssey yearbook, iFocus
broadcast and Perihelion literary
magazine
Education: Master’s, education,
University of Phoenix; B.S.,
communication, Truman State
University
Background: Schott was a 2010
Missouri Journalism Teacher
of the Year and DJNF Special
Recognition Adviser. He received
the 2012 Robert Knight Award
from the Missouri Interscholastic
Press Association. He has
worked as a design editor and
copy editor at the St. Joseph
News-Press, Copley Chicago
Newspapers; sports design editor
at the Key W