Ask the Alumnus: Alex Maxwell
A freshman at Western Kentucky University, Alex Maxwell is working at WKU PBS as part of the student production crew. Read More
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SRL Connected Educators of the Month: November 2016
Kerri Cobb and Lila Michael of Bozeman High School brought their enthusiasm to the classroom, inspiring their students to jump start the school year by producing 12 submissions for Letters to the Next President. Read More
SRL Partner Station of the Month: November 2016
Station mentors Paul Pfeffer and Tikeyah Whittle encourage their students to go above and beyond, as evident in CPBN Media Lab’s Letters to the Next President submissions. Read More
How schools are dealing with post-election fallout
In the wake of the election, schools across the country are reporting heightened anxiety and disappointment, incidents of bullying, vandalism and harassment and even walkouts protesting the president-elect. Read More
What young people want the next president to care about
What does the next generation of voters have to say to the next American president? Read More
Teens find their political voice through Letters to the Next President
Student Reporting Labs across the country produced short videos focusing on their concerns and questions for the future president of the United States as part of Letters to the Next President. Read More
SRL Partner Station of the Month: October 2016
After meeting at the SRL Student Academy during the summer of 2015, Arizona Public Media Senior Editor and longtime SRL partner Steven Bayless became a mentor to Mya Long, then a student at Black River Falls High School. After Mya decided to attend the University of Arizona to study Film and Television, Steve recruited her to become a part of the AZPM team. Read More
SRL Connected Educator of the Month: October 2016
Melissa Sherman is the Technology Facilitator at Hughes STEM High School in Cincinnati, Ohio. She encourages her students to embrace technology as a tool to tell important stories. Read More
Ask the Alumnus: Mya Long
As a freshman at the University of Arizona, Mya Long is working at Arizona Public Media as part of the post-production student crew with her Student Reporting Labs mentor Steven Bayless. See why Mya feels that SRL has put her ahead of the pack. Read More
Students reflect, rethink and reimagine high school
Students and big thinkers in education gathered in Howard University's Founders Library Thursday to dissect and reimagine the American high school experience. The conversation was part of Rethinking High School with Soledad O’Brien, a town hall produced by local PBS stations WETA and WHUT with support from the XQ Super School Project. Youth reporters Bridjett Castell, Emanuel Grimes and Imani St. Clair, from Frederick Douglass High School not only listened to the panel discussion about testing, teacher quality, equal access and learning styles, but they got to interview the television host, Howard University students and Super School organizers. Read More