Sergio Luis Yanes, MJE

@JournalismPod Happy to keep the nerdiness alive! We punctuation protectors must keep at our cause. An extra layer is that it’s also a play on a @radiohead song title. 😉

@CommaPolice Love that a journalism teacher has the screen name "commapolice" - have an editor here who is comma obsessed, so it made me laugh

You can serve JEA as an elected board member. Five seats are open for the 2025-27 term. Declare your interest by Oct. 28: jea.org/board-informat…

SO HAPPY FOR YOU! Four Varsity Yearbook schools placed in the NSPA Best of Show category for yearbooks with 108-223 pages at the Spring National HS Journalism Convention in Kansas City. Congratulations!

Congratulations to Arvada (Colorado) High School, one of 28 recipients of the 2024 First Amendment Press Freedom Award. It is Arvada's second year receiving the award. Read more: jea.org/wp/blog/2024/0… @ColoradoSMA @ArvadaAspires @JeffcoSchoolsCo

Are you a First Amendment school? FAPFA is designed to identify and recognize high schools that actively support and protect First Amendment rights of their students and teachers. Apply by Dec. 15. jea.org/fapfa

Applications are open for the First Amendment Press Freedom Award. Round one will take you a matter of minutes to submit. jea.org/wp/home/awards…

Are you a First Amendment school? FAPFA is designed to identify and recognize high schools that actively support and protect First Amendment rights of their students and teachers. Apply by Dec. 15. jea.org/fapfa

Can this be the year that admin stops asking teachers to do busy work by writing the learning objective on the board?

JEA president appoints Louisa Avery, MJE, as JEA awards chair. jea.org/wp/blog/2023/0…

JEA seeks to hire a part-time journalism curriculum specialist with experience teaching, familiarity with WordPress, experience developing curriculum and with a history of professional development related to curriculum development. Learn more: jea.org/wp/home/for-ed…

At #NHSJC tonight, our media program was a recipient of the First Amendment Press Freedom Award. These kids “don’t simply accept the narrative” as our keynote speaker spoke so brilliantly. They make sure stories told authentically and all our voices are heard clearly.

* View from my room 🤦🏻‍♂️

Yes, I’m here in San Francisco for the JEA/NSPA Spring #NHSJC, but this view from my view is another great reason to visit. Can’t wait to see my people throughout the next few days! @nationalJEA @NSPA

So proud of my #JEA mentees! Two of them are presenting media production and media literacy skills to teachers attending our district tech conference. Their 1st yr in the Mentor prog and they’re rocking it! #MentorshipMatters @nationalJEA

Here’s an update on JEA’s diversity audit. Our pilot group is currently in the next phases, so stay tuned for more information! jea.org/wp/blog/2023/0…

SAVE THE DATE: On Student Press Freedom Day, Feb. 23, 3 student journalists & I will be on this webinar to discuss our fight vs censorship last year. Please share with student journalists (high school & college level) & any journalism educators. Thanks! pen.org/event/refusing…

Thank you, @GovofCO, for proclaiming February as Career & Technical Education Month in the State of Colorado! We appreciate your support of #CareerTechEd, which provides relevant & rigorous education that is connected, responsive & real! #CTEmonth #CTEworks4CO #coleg

@adrianachavira What a sad and frustrating turn of events in response to some political flexing. Piece-mealing the course does not teach an objective history.

"The AP African American studies was meant to be the product of their efforts to advance institutional equity and inclusion. Now it has excised what amounts to my entire lifetime from the historical understanding of the Black experience...." latimes.com/entertainment-…

@MrClikestoteach More often than you can imagine. That’s been my experience.

As a Dominican Puerto-Rican, I wonder how often I’ll be someone’s first Hispanic coworker in a school setting lol.

@MrClikestoteach Two pieces of advice: 1) Always remember you’re teaching someone’s baby (passing this one along from my mentor who told me 17 years ago) /// 2) In all that you do, be the human you needed in your life when you were that age. Welcome!

I start my student teaching semester January 3rd, 2023. I will be able to celebrate Christmas and New Years, but almost as soon as that is over I will be into the thick of it😅. Is there any advice I can get from #teachertwitter about how to get the most out of it?