Spotlight on Careers: Grace Junior High School

I was recently contacted by Braquel Woodland at Grace Junior High School to visit with Career class students during the afternoon and talk a bit about media and communications fields.  The class was designed to give students a sense of what is involved practically and more conceptually in various professions the students may have interest in.  It was a lot of fun to be back in the classroom (I taught English for 20 years or so in a previous career), and inspiring to see what students are up to these days.  Thank you to Miss Woodland, course instructor Mrs. Doxey, and all the amazing students for making it a memorable time!

To give students a sense of how a paper is put together, I tasked each of the two sessions with taking notes on our discussion, writing up their thoughts and quoting each other, and generating a few pictures to add to the overall piece.  Our time in the classroom was too limited to have the students completely design the page, but I’ve only added in what I felt was necessary for context to the outside reader, and the vast majority of it was produced by the students during the initial class session and a brief follow-up this Monday.

Thank you to the Managing Editors for each session for corralling this material and getting it to me, and to Mrs. Doxey and Miss Woodland for assisting to that end.

I present to you here the results of last week’s class sessions, and hope to see some of these kids behind a newsdesk sometime soon!