CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.9-10.3 | JEA Curriculum Initiative

August 23, 2017

Leadership and Team Building

Staff reflection and problem-solving strategy

Description When the tension is thick and conflict is about to erupt, taking valuable time away from production time can be more valuable. This team building activity allows people to clear the air to then return to the work refreshed and stronger as a team. Objective …

August 23, 2017

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Leadership and Team Building

Assigning job descriptions to leadership

Description Leaders will work independently by reflecting on their media experience. They will write down their biggest strength, biggest weakness and what are they most proud of. Then leaders will discuss these bullet points together as a group to better understand one another. Leaders will then …

February 7, 2016

by cadmin

Photojournalism

Choosing photos for publication

Description In this one-day lesson, students will participate in a fictional scenario in which they make decisions about the front page content for their student newspaper, The Monthly Gazette. Then, they will discuss how the content they have chosen (stories, photos, etc.) impacts the content and …

March 21, 2014

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Marketing and Audience Engagement

Selling yearbooks

This lesson gets practical for applying marketing and sales techniques to a specific product: yearbooks

March 21, 2014

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Marketing and Audience Engagement

Adding a new publication

This lesson introduces students to the process of either starting a new publication or adding a new platform to an existing publication

March 21, 2014

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Marketing and Audience Engagement

Crafting an entrepreneurial vision

This lesson prompts students to create a vision poster for the entrepreneurial aspects of their journalism program, detailing their current reality and describing improvements that should be made

March 15, 2014

by cadmin