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National Elementary Schools Press Association (NESPA) Mark continues to serve as the Association's managing director.

The National Elementary Schools Press Association is an organization dedicated to helping elementary and middle schools start new and improve existing class and school newspapers. The association serves as a clearinghouse for schools interested in sharing information and newspapers with member schools from coast to coast

NESPA was founded at Carolina Day School in Asheville, NC by Mark Levin, CJE

in 1994. In 2011 the organization was transferred to the University of Alabama's School of Journalism & the Alabama Scholastic Press Association. Meredith Cummings, CJE took over as Executive Director.

04/03/2023

TIME for Kids is looking for their next TFK Kid Reporters!

Guess what? The 2023-2024 TFK Kid Reporter Contest is now live! Do you know a kid who loves to write, review books and movies, and do cool interviews? Click here to apply and learn more: https://tfk.news/42MfFHE

12/06/2022

Few Alabama students take agriscience, agriculture classes. These groups want to change that.

Nearly one in 11 children in Alabama's Black Belt face very severe food insecurity, going a day or more without eating because food has run out.

11/29/2022

This lesson plan on ReadWriteThink's website teaches basic media literacy skills to students through greeting cards.

This lesson plan is meant for grades 5-6 and is spread out over three 50-minute sessions.

This lesson is a starting point for getting younger writers involved in media literacy education. In this lesson, students examine elements of holidays/events, invent their own original holiday, and examine and create holiday/event cards based on those chosen. Through reflection, students realize th...

11/15/2022

Teaching Thanksgiving Thoughtfully.

Educators looking to teach a historically accurate version of Thanksgiving can take advantage of a wide variety of resources.

Educators looking to teach a historically accurate version of Thanksgiving can take advantage of a wide variety of resources.

11/08/2022

What is differentiated instruction?

Instruction is tailored to meet all students' needs, interests and strengths.

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Instruction is tailored to meet all students' needs, interests and strengths.

11/01/2022

Why elementary and high school students should learn computer programming

Teaching computer programming to youth can prepare them for the future job market, promote equity in tech professions and develop students’ computational thinking skills.

10/25/2022

Halloween is right around the corner! Here are some Halloween classroom activities that won't break the bank.

Get students excited for the spooky season with Halloween reading activities, games, crafts, and other Halloween activities for your classroom!

10/18/2022

This article from Edutopia discusses how teachers can use nature to spark learning and build a classroom community.

Nature comes in all shapes and sizes—from a park to a potted plant—and teachers can use it to spark learning and build a classroom community.

10/11/2022

Need a lesson on fact-checking for beginners? Here's one from Storymaker!

Use this lesson during the middle and at the end of your newsgathering journey. Fact-check while you’re preparing for interviews, writing your script, and again before publication.

10/04/2022

This community-sourced poem is all about hope for the new school year.

Morning Edition's Poet-in-Residence Kwame Alexander took poetry submissions from NPR listeners and turned them into a community-made poem for the new school year.

Morning Edition's Poet-in-Residence Kwame Alexander took poetry submissions from NPR listeners and turned them into a community-made poem for the new school year.

09/27/2022

This lesson plan from the Pulitzer Center is aimed at elementary/middle school students and focuses on climate change in the community.

The plan involves analyzing climate change articles, as well as writing an article on someone who has been impacted by climate change in the community.

SECTIONS Unit OverviewFacilitation ResourcesStandardsStudent Work This unit was created by Dani McCormick, a fourth-grade teacher in Washington, D.C., as part of the 2021-2022 Pulitzer Center Teacher Fellowship program. It is designed for facilitation across ten 45-minute class periods, with work ou...

09/20/2022

Time for Kids gives a quick introduction to pitching stories.

Before journalists can begin reporting a story, they need to pitch it. No, that doesn’t mean tossing it like a baseball! It means convincing an editor that a story is important and timely—basically, that it needs to be told, and…

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