CSMA Adviser Update

The Student Press Law Center is excited to offer a new way to connect with legal experts. Book a video-call through our Virtual Speakers Bureau. It's a popular offering, so we need 10 days' advance notice.

Speakers will join your classroom or the newsroom on a video call for up to 40 minutes (including Q&A) and present one of the following topics;

· High school student press freedom

· Copyright

· Freedom of Information / public records

· Libel and defamation

Did you receive a free SPLC poster in the mail? One side features the Year of the Student Journalist and ways to get involved. Come 2020, turn it around for information about SPLC's free services, including the legal hotline.

If you want one, contact Alexis Mason at amason@splc.org. Put "Poster" in the subject line and include your complete mailing address.

SPLC has updated its Back to School page to provide links to key topics that are likely to come up during the first few weeks of class.

The First-time Convention Grant application is live now for the Washington, D.C. JEA/NSPA national journalism convention and will remain open through Sept. 15, 2019.

The grant provides an immersive experience for the adviser and two students. Up to four schools will be selected for the fall convention. (You can review details here or learn more about last fall's Chicago experience for grant recipients here,)

You should secure administrator approval before submitting the application. In addition, the application requires you to provide information about the two students who will attend the convention with you. It's important to confirm schedule availability, parent permission and other details before applying. Remember, the grant from JEA and NSPA covers all of the convention activities and lodging at the convention hotel but not does not cover meals or transportation costs.

Benefits for the adviser:

• Waived convention registration
• Free lodging for four nights shared with one other grant recipient
• JEA Outreach Academy participation
• Ticket to Saturday adviser luncheon
• One year JEA membership
• Waived Advisers Institute registration (July 2020)

• Waived convention registration
• Free lodging for four nights shared with other student recipients
• Participation in pre-convention workshop
• Participation in JEA’s on-site contests
• Ticket to Friday night pizza party event
• Free critique session
• Free entry in NSPA Best of Show

Apply by Sept. 15. JEA will notify finalists by email and confirm with each principal before announcing grant recipients by the end of the month.

The Missouri School of Journalism just launched a teaching resource that middle school/high school teachers would like and IT’S FREE! But it’s only going to be open to up to 300 teachers in its first year.

The Missouri School of Journalism has launched a free, 25-module online learning tool for middle school and high school teachers who want to teach or revamp their journalism or strategic communication lessons.

Each module contains learning objectives, short video lectures, worksheets and activities, quizzes and related resources. The topics covered include everything from audience engagement and audio storytelling to reporting and interviewing and journalism ethics.

Faculty from the School of Journalism brought extensive research and industry experience backgrounds together to produce content for the courses, says Amy Simons, associate professor at the School of Journalism, who helped produce the program. Professors in specialized areas were picked for specific modules.

The full post on this brand new learning resource for advisers is here.