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The Importance of Workshops

We attended Walsworth’s Elite Weekend this weekend. I can’t say enough good things about this workshop. The timing is perfect. There’s a lot of work
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Do Not Print List

Behind the Scenes After obtaining a list from my front office of parents who selected “do not print in school publications” during the registration process,
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A Fresh Start

Photojournalism The first day of a six-week grading period is photo inventory day. We look at photos over the projector to see what’s needed. The
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History of Photography

Journalism 1 We started the second six-week grading period today. After weeks of writing, usually, J1 students are excited to start something new. And they
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Leadership Training

I’ve learned later in my career and especially after COVID that teaching leadership is important and an ongoing task. This morning, we took time to
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We didn’t start the fire

Fun Day for All Today we worked through famous events in history. (See attached list.) These are actually events from the song, “We didn’t start
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Discuss Current Events

Journalism 1 I do my best to take time weekly to talk about current news with my Journalism 1 class. We usually watch Lester Holt
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Writing, Peer Editing, Conferencing

Journalism 1, Yearbook, Newspaper Most of my staff and my intro class are working on feature writing (or refining their skills). Journalism 1’s goal is
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Remembering 9/11

Remembering Today, is a day I take off from yearbooking and just sit and talk about events of 9/11. I’ve included some discussion topics. I
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