Adviser Update Spring 2016 | Page 3

3 L E T TER FROM EDITOR By Adrienne L. Forgette, MJE I ’m excited to be serving as You will also meet Michael one of my former editors, who Adviser Update’s new Editor- Simons who shows us the value is currently a magazine major in -Chief starting with this of empowering our students to at the S. I. Newhouse School first online edition. Since teach their journalism skills to the of Public Communications at my high school days pasting next generation of high school Syracuse University. If you have a up yearbook pages in the era of journalists. former editor currently involved wax pencils and printed photos, in a publications program at the I’ve had a love for organizing These two advisers push me to college level who you think would publications. think about how I can empower be interested in being featured, I my students to be agents of would love to hear from you. Every day as I read about the change in their community. If you accomplishments of my adviser know of someone who inspires peers, I am motivated to make my you in our journalism community, classroom better. In my role with please encourage them to submit this magazine, my goal is to shine a piece for consideration. a light on those who push us to ~ Adrienne Forgette be better and ask us all to think A new column, “What I Wish I about how what we do matters. Would Have Known”, features At the end of the day, I think we former high school journalists could all benefit from added who are now in college media motivation. programs. The goal of this column is to give both media advisers In this first issue , you will hear and students a glimpse into the from advisers I turn to for college newsroom and to either motivation including Broadcast affirm what we are doing in our Teacher of the Year, Michael curriculum or help point out Hernandez, and his team of areas we should focus on to make broadcast students who have our students fully prepared for traveled to Cambodia, Cuba and college media. This first column Vietnam creating documentaries. features Madeleine Buckley, Editor-in-Chief Adrienne Forgette is the Media Arts Director at the Darlington School in Rome, Ga. where she advises the Jabberwokk yearbook, Darlingtonian online newspaper and Insklinger literary magazine. Forgette was recently named a 2016 Lindblad Expedition and National Geographic Grosvenor Teacher Fellow. She holds a B.A. from Colgate University and an M.A. from the University of Maryland, College Park. E-mail: mrsforgette@gmail.com