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About Growing a Program
In this section, you can find information about how to build your journalism program. Ideas will focus on creating and sequencing classes and how to run an extra curricular club. Not all schools have the funds to support both paths, but here are some ideas for both.
Promote Your Program in Visual Ways Around the School
No matter what your structure is, make sure you promote your classes and clubs. Below are pictures and descriptions of how we promote our classes, clubs, and publication around the school.
In the physical classroom that the newspaper class runs out of, we display headshots. Kids in that room throughout the day ask about it. The introductory journalism classes are also in that classroom, and it is something many want to experience: having their picture hanging.
We have a class that runs the newspaper, but we also have a club. The club is an opportunity for people to freelance content into the print paper or online. This bulletin board is in the classroom that houses all the introductory journalism classes.
Our Managing Editor runs the club component of our journalism program and organizes all the freelance content. She prints screenshots of the freelanced work and hangs them around the classroom. It covers two walls. Students love seeing it, and it is a conversation starter.
Hide QR codes around the school that connect to your newspaper's website. In bathrooms, at bus stops, and by pencil sharpeners are good places to start.
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