Current responsibilities

 Senior final obligations

 

Leadership

1.  Certification – Dylan, Dimitri, Ava, Isabella, Lucille, Carey

Practice Text TRAINING first – GMetrix app

Practice Test = 800 – Gmetrix app

Certification Test - Certiport

2.  Final Contest Entries

3.  Senior Goodbye by Friday May, 19

4.  Final Exam – Will be posted on Friday, May 12

5.  Issue 6, page 12

6.  Interview Leadership Applicants

7.  Finish Directive

 

Non-Leadership

1.  Senior Goodbye by Friday, May 19

2.  Final Exam – Will be posted on Friday, May 12

3.  Help with any Directive or Dispatch Issue 6 needs

4.  Plan Final Exam party – food and fun (Reeves main dish)

Certification testing left

 

Kate

Sophia

Sam

Mazzy

Amilia

Lillian

Claire

 

Practice Text TRAINING first – GMetrix app

Practice Test = 800 – Gmetrix app

Certification Test - Certiport

Click here for the correct log-ins and information for this:

https://bowiemmd.blogspot.com

● 12-page, online issue 6

PAGE 1 – News

- Editors: Emerson T.

PAGE 2 – News (2 ADS)

- Editors: Ben T.

PAGE 3 – Features

- Editors: Sophia S.

PAGE 4 – Sports

- Editors: Sam V, Cooper CF.

PAGE 5 & PAGE 6 – Double Truck

- Editors: Asher H, Mazzy W.

PAGE 7 – Photo Essay

- Editors: Arden R.

PAGE 8 – Entertainment

- Editors: Kate D.

PAGE 9 – Review (2 ADS)

- Editors: Claire S.

PAGE 10 – Commentary

- Editors: Vivi L, Madeleine T.

PAGE 11 – Commentary

- Editors: Charlotte K.

PAGE 12 – Senior Page (PE)

- Editors: seniors

Testing on a Chromebook

 This link will only work for Mazzy, Sam, Amara and Vivi

https://labs.itopia.com/

Editor and staff applications for 2023-24

For all returning staff, please take the time to fill out the following. The deadline for this application is Friday, May 5.

 https://forms.gle/jWQuiDhbRRcztKU56

The rest of the week.

I am sorry that I am likely not going to be at school the rest of the week. We need to get moving quickly and I cannot be there to make sure things get done. I know you can get things done and we need to be working diligently please.

Here is what we need to get finished and who should be working on these items.

1. Dispatch Issue #5 - I will pull PDF's on 4/25 at 6 pm and begin edits on completed pages. Carey, Lucille, Ava and Isabella will finish their pages. Dylan, Dimitri, Zac, and Colin will make edits, corrections, additions, any need art or photos for the rest of the pages when I finish editing them, which I hope is by Friday, April 28 at the start of class. I will make edits for pages 1, 2, 7, 8-9 on Friday evening. Edits will be ready by Sunday. Final edits for all pages will be made Monday and Tuesday and we will send Issue #5 digitally on Tuesday, May 2.

2. Grace, Amara, Lauren, Alli and Emily will take full control of every spread in the Directive on Monday, May 1. They will be responsible for finishing the Directive with a final deadline of Friday, May 19.

3. Tomorrow 4/26 and Thursday, 4/27 we will brainstorm for Issue 6.

A-day will be led by Kate, Sophia, Emerson, Asher and Ben

B-day will be led by Claire, Mazzy, Sam, Vivi, and Alex

4/26 and 4/27 after brainstorm - all Directive people should be working on their pages as they will be going away shortly.

I will either be there Friday or if I am not there, I will make another post here with what steps need to be taken that day.

https://sway.office.com/EGPY4LOIH63olVkN?ref=Link

ILPC Conference Program

 For those people going to ILPC here is a digital link to the program:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BQx-_tBlWdQwYUmR4RG8wRw0lqz1eyPn/view?usp=sharing

New Voices

 Hi everyone. Now that the New Voices bill has been referred to the Public Education Committee and April is around the corner, it's time to push for the bill to get a hearing. 

We've made two action pages to share with supporters that should make it easier to send email to members of the Texas House Public Education Committee to ask them to schedule the bill for a hearing. April will be a critical month for us to move the ball on New Voices in Texas. If we don't get a hearing and a vote, the bill will die, again. I know it's a long shot for it to happen, but we have to move the ball as far as we can before the clock runs out. Sorry for the cliché sports metaphor. I'll stop now, but you get the idea.

USE AND SHARE THIS ACTION FOR NON-STUDENT NEW VOICES SUPPORTERS

https://actionnetwork.org/.../demand-a-hearing-for-a-new...

AND PLEASE SHARE THIS LINK WITH STUDENTS TO HELP THEM SEND EMAILS TO THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS. 

Please encourage students to customize the template letter with their own experiences.

https://actionnetwork.org/.../demand-a-hearing-for-a-new...

More New Voices Information:

New Voices Day at the Capitol

David Doerr, our Legislative and Policy chair and New Voices Texas adviser, needs our help:

It’s time to let your voices be heard at the Texas Capitol in Austin to demand that lawmakers support a New Voices law in Texas! 

We are working on scheduling appointments with lawmakers on Monday, March 13 to allow supporters to speak directly to lawmakers and their staffers, especially those on the Texas Public Education Committee. We have assurances that a lawmaker will announce a New Voices bill this week ahead of the March 10 bill filing deadline. Once the bill is filed, it’s our job to put pressure on lawmakers to pass it.

In particular, lawmakers need to hear from students so they understand that there is demand for this type of legislation in Texas. They don’t often get young people to visit their offices so your talking with them in person will make a lasting impression. 

We realize that timing may be difficult for you to attend with this late notice, but we are hoping that many of you are on Spring Break and will be able to travel to Austin for this important effort. 

Our plan is to meet outside the Capitol at 9 a.m. to train attendees and help everyone learn how to navigate the Capitol complex and where lawmakers’ offices are located. After meeting appointments with various lawmakers, we plan to finish our meetings by 2 p.m. and finish up with a debriefing by 3 p.m.

For now, we need students, teachers, parents and other supporters to sign up on our Google Form so we know how many to expect and to help us set up appointments with the lawmakers that represent you in the Legislature in addition to members of the House Public Education Committee.

We will send out more details later this weekend, but for now you should know that there is a low-cost parking garage for Capitol visitors and that we will meet up at the African American monument near the southern edge of the Capitol complex. See this map to find the meet-up spot.

If you can come, we recommend that you buy a New Voices Texas t-shirt from Bonfire so you can make a visual statement while walking the halls of the Capitol. We will have some expenses to pay for our lobby efforts so please consider making a financial contribution to help us pay our bills. 

Thank you all for your continued support of New Voices Texas. See you at the Capitol!

You can find more information here and you can join the social media accounts that New Voices uses - Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

https://newvoicestx.com

Music industry opportunity

 For those of you who might be interested in working as a music industry journalist in the future, here is an opportunity for you:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sKT-9bX0hkWp-fYPLWyVHOiJt9qVl_Hv/view?usp=sharing