December 2019

The Journalistic Learning Initiative celebrates five years as a nonprofit in 2020, and board members at a recent meeting marked the important milestone by re-affirming the non-profit’s mission statement. The Journalistic Learning Initiative’s mission is to empower students to discover their voice, improve academic outcomes, and engage in self-directed learning through project-based storytelling, said JLI […]

Can the incorporation of journalistic skills—research, interviewing, fact checking, writing, editing, and sharing information— make science even more engaging for middle schoolers? That’s what the Journalistic Learning Initiative wanted to find out when approached by two eighth grade science teachers to bring our program to Hamlin Middle School in Springfield, Ore. For two weeks in