PANDEMIC CLASSROOMS 40 PHOTOS, 55 DAYS VOL. 54 | ISSUE 3 Teachers and classrooms all over Josh Clements, CJE, challenges his SPRING 2021 the country have had to adapt and students with a photo assignment: evolve during the pandemic. See Shoot 40 photos in 55 days. View A PUBLICATION OF THE JOURNALISM INSIDE. how some have changed. his rubric and workflow. EDUCATION ASSOCIATION. COMMUNICATION: JOURNALISM EDUCATION TODAY Printers of quality student newspapers But we’re not just newspapers THOMAS JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOL FOR SCIENCE AND TECH || ALEXANDRIA, VA TJTO D AY www.tjtoday.org THE MAGAZINE 6560 BRADDOCK RD. ALEXANDRIA, VA 22312 JUNE 6, 2016 || VOL 1 ISSUE 8 || JUNE 6, 2016 || VOL S OF S AY U M D ] M 5 E 7 [ R It’s almost summertime–where will you go? SUMMER PLANS || 6 PROM LIVE STREAM SUMMER AND PREVIEW PROBLEMS? FILMS Countdown to the Why Facebook’s new Staff picks films to annual event feature is problematic expect for the summer 14 24 28 IN-DEPTH We are also newsletters, news magazines, high quality glossy literary magazines, playbills, awards booklets, special senior issues. All printed with the quality and efficiency you’ve come to expect from School Paper Express. HE T SPECTATOR SENIOR ISSUE Berkley High School The Senior Issue LION’S ROAR Radford High School THE presents Serving the Cherry Hill West Community since 1957 Volume 58 Issue 6 www.westlionsroar.com You’re a Good Man, CHARLIE BROWN Radford High School Auditorium Thursday, April 21 at 7 p.m. Friday, April 22 at 7 p.m. Saturday, April 23 at 7 p.m. & Sunday, April 24 at 2 p.m. Class of 2016 www.schoolpaperexpress.com 84 E Main St, Wappingers Falls, NY 12590 - 845-297-9900 - [email protected] “Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together. The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations.” | JOSEPH PULITZER, NEWSPAPER PUBLISHER, 1904 REPLY ALL 2 | COVERAGE FROM THE JEA LISTSERV LOCAL POLITICS Michael Smith, CJE, Ballard High From school boards to the statehouse, School (Seattle), mtsmith@ coverage of local politics provides seattleschools.org | According to so many opportunities for student The New York Times list of the best journalists. | By Bradley Wilson, MJE films of the year, “Collective,” is a great JEA CURRICULUM LINK: https://curriculum.jea.org/wp/ journalism film. https://www.justwatch. journalistic-research/ com/us/movie/collective | GRAMMAR SYNOPSIS: In the aftermath of a fire in 13 a Romanian club, burn victims begin KEEPING UP dying in hospitals from wounds that Making surnames plural is generally as were not life-threatening. A team simple as adding an s or an es. of investigative journalists moves JEA CURRICULUM LINK: https://curriculum.jea.org/wp/ into action, uncovering the mass quick-hits-for-editing/ corruption of the health system and of the state institutions. “Collective” 14 | PHOTOJOURNALISM follows journalists, whistleblowers and authorities alike. 40 PHOTOS, 55 DAYS Students turn in 10 photos per week PJ Cabrera, CJE, Judson High School CHANT RITUAL Surrounded by his teammates, Dane Hamilton, junior, hypes up the team before the for four weeks. This story includes a game versus Chesterton. Before every game, the team got in a circle and chanted “red.” “It really (Converse, Texas) | This year’s grading rubric and some workflow got us hyped up for each and every game,” Hamilton said. Photo by Todd McKechnie, Munster High Scholastic Journalism Week (#SJW2021) ideas. | By Josh Clements, CJE is Feb. 21 - 27, 2021. The theme is “What School (Indiana) JEA CURRICULUM LINK: https://curriculum.jea.org/wp/ We Do Matters” (#WhatWeDoMatters). capture-the-moment/ Tommy Li, adviser, Sunny Hills High 21 | DESIGN School (Fullerton, California) | We SPRING 2021 | VOLUME 54 | NUMBER 3 have a student who’s the kicker of the YELLOW AND GRAY football team who says his parents Pantone chose a pairing of yellow and tested positive for COVID, but he gray as the colors of the year. hasn’t. However, he claims that he has JEA CURRICULUM LINK: https://curriculum.jea.org/wp/ experienced COVID-19 symptoms and design-foundations-day-5-understanding-color/ has reported to the school about his . situation. | GRAMMAR cNEWontent EMOJIS FOR 2020 s 22 He was willing to be interviewed by face smiling, with a disguised face; woman in tuxedo; black cat man with veil transgender symbol ninja single tear; indicates yellow face with big comes in varying skin | CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT that one is touched, glasses, a large nose, tones. relieved, or grateful thick eyebrows and 36 WORDS OF THE YEAR one of my editors for a story about his mustache experience dealing with the coronavirus 2020: A YEAR WE WON’T FORGET From pandemic to lockdown to the if he truly did or still does have it. Classrooms all over the country have evolved. From going coronavirus, various dictionaries But I’m wondering whether it’s OK 20202020 released a word of the year for 2020, a 2020It might not be a year totally online to working in hybrid mode to working with for us to publish his name in the story. you want crazy year. | By Bradley Wilson, MJE to remember, Or should we use a pseudonym for him but 2020 is one students face-to-face, teachers, too, have evolved. All the you will never JEA CURRICULUM LINK: https://curriculum.jea.org/wp/ forget. to protect his confidentiality since this is 47 million acres burned in Australian brushfires n Prince Harry and Meghan Markle stepped down as “senior editing-for-word-choice/ royals” n On Feb. 5, the Senate acquitted U.S. President Donald Trump of the charges on which he had been while, student media operations find new ways to cover impeached n Mississippi replaced a flag that had featured Confederate symbolism. n “Parasite,” a non-English- language movie won Best Picture and took home the most Oscars n Harvey Weinstein was convicted Feb. 24 of raping an aspiring actress and sexually abusing a TV and film production assistant n The Dow Jones industrial a health issue? average suffered its worst single-day point drop ever March 9, dropping 2,013.76 points. Yearly high: 30,437.15 Yearly low: 20,704.91 n Police-involved killings of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor sparked the students at their school. a wave of sometimes violent demonstrations across the world to demand an end to police brutality and racial injustice n Carbon dioxide emissions declined n NASA named its headquarters building in D.C. after Mary W. 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