JEA H.L. Hall Yearbook Adviser of the Year

DEADLINE: The application must be submitted by 11:59 p.m. Central time/9:59 p.m. Pacific time Oct. 15, for consideration for the H.L. Hall National Yearbook Adviser of the Year Award.

Because you cannot save your progress on this form, we recommend that you develop your answers to these questions in another program, such as Google Docs or Microsoft Word, and then copy and paste your responses into the fields below.

1. Biographical questions

First Name

Middle Initial

Last Name

Home Address

Apt/Suite/Office

City

Zip

Email Address This question requires a valid email address.

Phone Number

Twitter Handle

School Name

School Address Line 1

School Address Line 2

City

ZIP

Principal's First Name

Principal's Last Name

Hometown Newspaper Name

Hometown Newspaper Address

Hometown Newspaper City

ZIP

Hometown Newspaper Website

Hometown Newspaper Email

Yearbook Name

Yearbook URL

Answer the following questions about the most recently published yearbook you advised. Because you cannot save your progress on this form, we recommend that you develop your answers to these questions in another program, such as Google Docs or Microsoft Word, and then copy and paste your responses into the fields below.

2. Are you certified by the Journalism Education Association? *This question is required.

3. Describe any other relevant educational background or journalism training/certification.

4. How many years have you advised student media? Briefly describe or list the school(s) and advising assignment(s).

5. List any awards you have received as an adviser, educator or professional journalist.

6. List any articles you have published on scholastic journalism or journalism education in the past five years.

7. In what ways have you served scholastic journalism? This might include holding office or serving on committees from local to national organizations, as a judge, or in other forms of service.

8. Provide a brief description of your current school's culture. This might include diversity, socioeconomics, setting, etc.

9. Describe the yearbook journalism program at your school (student involvement, classes offered, credit offered, etc.). How has it changed during your tenure?

10. Describe your efforts to recruit and promote diversity within your program and coverage.

11. In what way does your program teach and support 21st Century Skills to prepare students for college and career?

12. What is the school population, and what percentage sales did your staff have last year? Describe any challenges in book sales and how your staff addressed these.

13. List the total revenue and total expenses for the most recently published yearbook (including printing, photography, advertising, book sales, etc.)

Total revenue
Total expenses

14. Describe your role in setting deadlines and motivating the staff to meet them. What was the publication's deadline structure and how did the staff meet the deadlines?

15. Describe your editorial leadership and staff organization outlining the structure of the program.

16. Explain your philosophy and approach in regard to student freedom of expression. Include who makes the final content decision for the yearbook and what process is used to resolve both internal and external (administrative) disputes.

17. List awards won by students in the program (staff and individual) in the past three years.

18. Outline the biggest issue facing yearbook journalism and how this might be addressed.

19. Where do you find the greatest enjoyment in high school yearbook journalism?

20. Please upload a current resume.(pdf file accepted; file must be 500K or less)

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21. Please compile not more than five (5) letters of recommendation from administrators, colleagues, current/former students or others who are familiar with your work.(pdf file accepted; file must be 500K or less)

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22. Please describe the theme for your school's most recent book and how your staff implemented it.

23. Please submit the following spreads and pages from your school's most recent yearbook. Facing pages (a double-page spread) should be exported as a PDF spread, not single pages, for viewing/judging purposes.

Cover
Front endsheet (include table of contents wherever it appears)
Title page
Opening spread(s)
One divider
One index spread
Colophon
Closing or parting
One people spread
Up to five other spreads from inside coverage of your choosing

(up to 10 pdf files accepted; each file must be less than 10MB)

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24. Please upload a high-quality color head shot, as well as a candid photo of you teaching/working with students.
(jpg files accepted; each file must be 2MB or less, at least 200 ppi resolution)

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