I shared the rough curriculum I had established for working with a journalism club at a neighborhood school before my time there was cut short. Just a week after I took a full-time job and told the club’s adviser that I’d have to take a bit of a sabbatical from my time there, I wanted [...]

Before I suspended my trips to Frankford High School to work with the school’s journalism club, we established what would have been a nice rhythm. Every Thursday, I would come and give a lesson, and the following Monday, the students would use what we talked about and put it into practice by getting out of [...]

I spent portions of a couple school years while at college helping get a newspaper underway at the Franklin Learning Center, a strong, diverse magnet school in the Spring Garden neighborhood of Philadelphia. So, I was excited to take some time away from my freelancing work once a week to work with the journalism club [...]

You’re supposed to learn from teaching, or something like that. I suppose with that knowledge in hand, I knew I’d learn something when, two years ago, I first walked into the Franklin Learning Center, a magnet high school in the Spring Garden neighborhood of Philadelphia. I was there to help launch a student newspaper. I, [...]