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Leadership & Team Building
Starting a parent support organization
Students will evaluate why they need a parent support organization and will determine how they could use such an organization to supplement and complement their media program.Publication Management
Leadership & Team Building
Staff community service or school service project
Individually, students will plan the different components of a community service or school service project and then as a staff they will choose one or more projects and actually complete them. The public image of your publication is also developed in the Marketing and Audience Engagement module’s lesson Using theme and branding as marketing tools.TeambuildingWeekly Lesson
Leadership & Team Building
Planning an end-of-year staff banquet
Students will plan the different components of a community service or school service project and then as a staff they will choose one or more projects and actually complete them.Teambuilding
Leadership & Team Building
Creating a fun director position on your staff
Students will research other media staffs around the country to see how they make time to have fun and bond in their programs.Teambuilding
Leadership & Team Building
Starting a staff alumni association
Students will evaluate why they need a staff alumni association and will determine how they could use such an organization to supplement and complement their media program.Publication Management
Leadership & Team Building
Working with your school board, administration and community
Students will research other media staffs around the country to see how they work to develop positive relationships with their administrators, faculty members, school board members and your local community.Publication Management
Leadership & Team Building
Developing a recruitment plan
Students will research other media staffs around the country to see how they recruit members for their programs.Staff Development and Recruitment
Leadership & Team Building
Creating a scholastic journalism network
Students will research other scholastic journalism programs in their local area, state, regional and nation that could join a communication network allowing for more support of scholastic journalism programs, advisers and student journalists.Leadership Development
Leadership & Team Building
Planning a staff retreat or boot camp
Students will research other media staffs around the country to see how they train members for their programs.Leadership Development
Leadership & Team Building
Organizing trips to conventions, planning a jDay and jCamp
Students will develop a plan in cooperation with their adviser for attending a convention, organizing a jDay or jCamp.Staff Development and Recruitment
Leadership & Team Building
Developing a grading system that works for you and your staff members
Students will decide with their adviser what they feel is a fair grading system for each student in the media program.Publication Management
Leadership & Team Building
Planning for back-to-school nights or fee days
Students will research other media staffs around the country to see how they promote their programs at back-to-school nights or fee days.Leadership Development
Leadership & Team Building
Developing a pitch for an honors journalism program at your school
Students will research other media staffs around the country to learn how they earn honors level credit in their journalism programs.Publication Management
Leadership & Team Building
Using online document management systems
Students will decide how they can best utilize file sharing tools like Google Docs, Trello and Dropbox for their media program.Publication Management
Leadership & Team Building
Developing a student leadership portfolio
Students will accumulate samples of their work and other necessary materials suitable for a leadership portfolio that could prepare them to enter their state and possibly national JEA student journalist of the year competition.Leadership Development
Leadership & Team Building
Decorating/accessorizing your publication room
Students will research other media staffs around the country to see how they decorate and accessorize their publication rooms.Teambuilding
Leadership & Team Building
Developing icebreakers
Students will research icebreakers and develop a goal for using their ice breaker with the class.Teambuilding
Leadership & Team Building
Developing a presentation for your school board
Students will work together in small groups to decide when it is appropriate to make a presentation to their school board, why they are making such a presentation (what they hope to accomplish) and the specifics that they need to include in their presentation.Publication Management
Leadership & Team Building
Creating first-five mini-lessons for journalism classes
This lesson helps students develop 5-minute lessons that they present to the class during the first five minutes of each class period.Leadership Development
Leadership & Team Building
Role playing potential staff conflicts
Students will work in small groups to role play preset scenarios to learn how to deal with potential conflicts they might face as members of a publication staff.Teambuilding