SRL Hosts 2025 Teacher Workshop — meet the educators!

June 4, 2025

Student Reporting Labs’ will host its annual Teacher Workshop from July 25-27 in Washington, DC at the WETA offices, home of the PBS News Hour.

This year’s Teacher Workshop focuses on streamlining student storytelling by exploring production strategies that teach students perspective, expand creativity, and maximize resources to produce compelling narratives. 

Educators will work alongside the SRL team to strengthen their technical and editorial skills to better marry storytelling and technology in the classroom. They’ll bring these skills back to their classrooms to support high school student journalists as they report the stories that matter most to them and their communities.

This level of free hands-on media education is made possible by support for public media programs like PBS News Student Reporting Labs and local station WETA. Consider donating today.

Meet the teachers attending this year’s workshop:

Abby Jaillet – Vestavia Hills High School, Vestavia Hills, AL

Aisha Davis – South Cobb High School, Austell, GA

Alina Rakiewicz – Warwick High School, Lititz, PA

Angelina Valencia – Utterback Middle School, Tucson, AZ

Ann Bernard – Montana PBS, Bozeman, MT

Cindy Severino – Madison Park Technical Vocational High School, Roxbury, MA

Chris Sloan – Judge Memorial High School, Salt Lake City, UT

Christopher Bissinger – Stewarts Creek High School, Smyrna, TN

Claudia Robles – J.C. Bermudez Doral Senior, Doral, FL

Clifford Williams III – Central Visual Performing Arts High School, St. Louis, MO

Cody Carlton – Alabama Public Television, Birmingham, AL

Donna Herold – Ferris High School, Spokane, WA

Elizabeth Ward – Chief Leschi Schools, Puyallup, WA

Eric Gutierrez – Haskell STEM Academy, Fullerton, CA

Fred Haas – Hopkinton High School, Hopkinton, MA

George Scott – Bozeman High School, Bozeman, MT

Heather Putnam – Desert Edge High School, Goodyear, AZ

Jaime Orozco – Prestonwood Christian Academy, Prosper, TX

Joe Hodge – Weiss High School, Pflugerville, TX

Joe Papadopoulos – Eisenhower High School, Tampa, FL

Jodi Hwang – Los Altos High School, Los Altos, CA

Julie Tiedens – Black River Falls High School, Black River Falls, WI

Katie Cianelli – South Shore Charter Public School, Norwell, MA

Kelli Gary – Lake Braddock Middle School, Burke, VA

Keyanna Alexander – Stockbridge High School, Stockbridge, GA

Kimberley Thompson – South Shore Charter Public School, Norwell MA

Kyla Riccobon – Berwick High School, Berwick, PA

Lunx Girgado – ATLAS High School, Astoria, NY

Margaret Burgos – Lincoln Middle School, Portland, ME

Matt Codner – Hendrick Hudson High School, Montrose, NY

Mindy Pavone – Clinton High School, Clinton, NY

Miriam Townsend – McKinley CLA, St. Louis, MO

Monique Harris Schramme – Lexington Public High School, Lexington, MA

Nancy Webster – Robinson High School, Tampa, FL

Preston Donakowski – East Kentwood High School, Kentwood, MI

Rebecca L. Rodgers, MA – Vashon High School, St. Louis, MO

Robert Casas – Westview High School, San Diego, CA

Sammy Wiener – WHYY Media Labs and Philadelphia School District, Philadelphia, PA

Sara Chen – South River High School, Edgewater, MD

Sean A Taylor – Northeast High School, Philadelphia, PA

Sterling Miller – New Fairfield High School, New Fairfield, CT

Teresa King – McCreary Central High School, Whitley City, KY

Timothy Williams – Lawrence High School, Lawrence Township, NJ

Vilma Orduna – Porter High School, Brownsville, TX

William Nelson – Norte Vista High School, Riverside, CA

William Work – Cesar Chavez Academy, Corona, CA