Adviser Update
SPRING 2012
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Teacher of the Year program
DJNF invites media advisers to apply
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for writing a quarterly column for
the Fund’s free newspaper, Adviser
Update.
The Teacher of the Year and four
Distinguished Advisers will receive
free subscriptions to The Wall Street
Journal Classroom Edition, a cosponsor, which includes 30 copies of
the full-color newspaper for students,
a Teacher Guide, unlimited access to
the Classroom Edition website and a
daily Journal.
The winning teacher will receive a
pin and a plaque and the journalism
program will get a state-of-the-art laptop computer. The school district
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ism. The Poynter Institute for Media
Studies, St. Petersburg, Fla., a program co-sponsor, is adding 10 free
webinars to the benefits the winning
teacher can claim in 2012. Additionally, the teacher may attend one professional seminar at Poynter. Speaking engagments include the November
National High School Journalism Convention in San Antonio. The teacher
will attend the annual meetings of
professional news media editors and
college journalism educators. The
Teacher of the Year is also a keynote
luncheon speaker for the Columbia
Scholastic Press Association, a cosponsor, in New York City each March.
Additionally the teacher is paid
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News Fund is looking for the next
Teacher of the Year to elevate the
conversation and make a difference.
Applicants are asked to identify a
pressing issue facing scholastic journalism and how they would address
it. Application questions have pared
down to a dozen.
“Our Teachers of the Year represent
a cadre of talented professionals who
care deeply about quality education
and good journalism,” says Richard S.
Holden, executive director of the Fund.
“These honorees perpetuate a tradition of excellence in the field.”
Advisers are still asked to outline
their positions on free expression for
high school students, fairness and
responsibility, diversity both on the
staff and in media content, and the
highest standards of journalistic ethics
and practice.
Applicants may be