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Jennifer Gainesbuilt a student broadcast program that works. So naturally, she's about tochange it. Fresh off her LEAD CTAE graduation (the night before this recording), theStatesboro High School AVTF teacher sat down at the VidPod to talk about aseason of wins... and why next year she's stepping into territory she's nevertaught before. In this episode: - What LEAD CTAE actually is, and why…
He coaches a two-time state champion broadcast team that just finished eighth in the nation... and his big secret isn't a drill or a piece of gear. It's that he refuses to hand out an easy grade. Jamey Trask from Fayette County High School sat down with Tom at the Georgia ACTE conference to talk about what it actually takes to build students who can write and stack a live show in 90 minutes. They…
He outproduced NASA. Seven cameras to their four at the Huntsville Space and Rocket Center. And at the end of the year, he sat down and told me he didn't think he grew.This conversation with Billy Dunn from Albertville Innovation Academy is one of the most honest things we've put on this podcast. Billy came from Fox 6 in Birmingham — gold standard broadcast — walked into a classroom, and is now…
He shot highlights for ESPN as a teenager. He built a career across four TV stations in Birmingham. And he learned to do all of it because the guy who was supposed to show up one night... didn't. Mark Hendren is three years into the classroom at Helena High School in Alabama, and he's thinking hard about how to give today's students the same thing someone gave him: a reason to say yes before…
He has more TV and radio credits than most working journalists — and nine months ago, he walked into a high school classroom and had to learn how to take attendance for the first time. Alex Jones spent seven years at WBRC 6 News in Birmingham across eighteen different roles, acted on Disney XD at 13, and ran a college radio station as general manager before teaching a single class at Thompson High…
The dean of a nationally accredited college journalism program just told me he isn't sure his faculty is teaching some of his students anything they don't already know. Tom sits down with David Marshall, Dean of the College of Media Arts and Communications at Savannah State University - the oldest public HBCU in Georgia - and the conversation goes to places most deans won't go. Three…
What does a marketing teacher in Gwinnett County know about broadcast education? More thanyou'd expect. Tom sits down with Evan Rosenberry at Collins Hill High School — the first marketing teacher in Teaching to the Test Pattern history — and the conversation goes places. AIin the classroom, why banning it might be the worst thing you can do for your students, a student MLB franchise project that…
Tom shares a presentation from his summer conference tour where he helps you understand what is needed to help teach your students to write better copy for news. For more content like, this visit www.streamsemester.com
In episode 130, Tom talks with Robert Hill from Peach County High School in Fort Valley, Georgia. This was recorded live during the AVTF Meet and Greet at Peach Co. This event served as the program's advisory council meeting and was a great way of members of the community to see what happens in the program. Thanks to our sponsor, Amitrace, for their support of Teaching To The Test Pattern. For…
Tom discusses why he's been absent from podcasts and posting on StreamSemester.com lately. Teaching To The Test Pattern and StreamSemester.com are brought to you by Amitrace.com