So, I think the toughest part of the year is always the deciding of positions for Vanguard for the following year. Who is going to be the leadership? Who are the students who will fill the editorial board? Will you have enough students to fill all the positions ( Read more... )

Ok...drumroll please ( Read more... )

So I've been swiping wireless internet from the library across the quad in Iowa City while I score the WASL during the day and as I was checking my e-mail this evening I discovered some fantastic news: I earned my Master Journalism Educator designation! I passed the test and the project! How happy am I? I won't be able to sleep tonight; I'm so ( Read more... )

So...big news ( Read more... )

I've contemplated for a long time whether I made the right move to come back this past year, and especially if I made the right decision to adviser and get even more involved with journalism, especially at PHS. It's had its ups and downs, from staff motivation, dead weight, politics, and overall direction and while I often think back to what was I ( Read more... )

I am one of the happiest advisers I think I know. Today was the turning point. Today was the day that 22 little journalism students were all busy working away. Today the room sounded like an actual newsroom for the first time in my teaching career. Today was my heaven ( Read more... )

How do you motivate people to do well and put in their all when they don't want to? I'm really plagued by this question right now. Alumni Today is DONE! I didn't have to do much and I also don't have to take it in until Monday morning but it is already done. Not half bad, actually. Encouraging ( Read more... )

So I don't know what made me think it was a good idea, I guess it sounded good in my head at the time. I started working on a production manual for Alumni Today this morning, thinking that if I recorded all of the different assignments step-by-step that the first-year journalism kids would be able to pull off an incredibly outstanding publication. ( Read more... )

I suddenly realized last night as I sat outside of a pizza place in Pullman waiting the 30 or so minutes for my pizza to be done just how tragically old I really am. I used to be able to wander around the town and feel like I belonged, but last night that all changed. Last night, I was the old alum standing in the room. Last night, I saw kids ( Read more... )

I can't believe the first month of school is almost over. I feel like I blinked and it's the end of September. I have never been happier as I am back at PHS. I want to be the first to say that I absolutely LOVE the re-design. Vanguard looks sweet! I still can't get over the fact that I had a waiting list to get into sophomore journalism, that still ( Read more... )