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FACULTY
First Row: Nancy Hastings, Martha Rothwell, Amy Medlock-Greene, Alison Shuman
Second Row: Kathy Craghead, Lori Oglesbee, Susan Massy, David Knight
Third Row: Beth Fitts, Jake Palenske, Dow Tate
Fourth Row: Becky Tate, Mark Murray, Karen Flowers, Kevin Kneisley
Kathy Craghead, Mexico HS (Mo.)
Kathy Craghead has been adviser to All-American publications for more than 30 years. Craghead was named the 1986 Missouri Journalism Teacher of the Year and is a NSPA Pioneer and JEA Medal of Merit winner. She was also named the 2003 National Yearbook Adviser of the Year.
Craghead has also been named a Dow Jones Special Recognition Adviser. A former board member of JEA, Kathy has been a workshop/seminar speaker in 25 states.
Beth Fitts, Oxford HS (Miss.)
Beth Fitts, 2003 Dow Jones National High School Journalism
Teacher of the Year and a five-time winner of the Mississippi
Adviser of the Year Award, is the director of the Mississippi Scholastic Press Association in Oxford, Miss. She advised high school publications for 27 years prior to her taking on the MSPA directorship. Her publications won top state, regional and national awards including NSPA’s PaceMaker and All-American, and SIPA’s All-Southern and Best in State Award.
Fitts has her master's of journalism and English, serves as
JEA state director and is a member of both the SIPA
Executive Board. In addition to other awards, she has received a Dow Jones Distinguished Adviser Award, a USA Today All-Star Teacher Team Honorable Mention and has been a Mississippi Teacher of the Year Alternate.
Fitts is a regular speaker at regional and national conventions. She also teaches at numerous summer workshops
across the country. She is the coordinator of the Dow Jones
Workshop at the University of Mississippi.
Christie Gold, Freedom HS (Fla.)
Christie Gold of Tampa, Fla., has advised newspaper staffs for the past 11 years. Her publications have received top ratings from NSPA, CSPA, SIPA and FSPA and earned numerous NSPA Best of Show placings. Former students have won individual student writing awards, including the Brasler Prize, and have gone on to study at some of the country’s top schools of journalism.
In 2001-2002, she was Teacher of the Year for Hillsborough County, the nation’s 11th largest school district. This past year, she was named Florida Journalism Teacher of the Year. She has been a Dow Jones Newspaper Fund Special Recognition and Distinguished Adviser.
In 2002, she helped open Freedom High School in North Tampa, where she teaches journalism and Advanced Placement English and advises Revolution, the school newspaper. Gold is a National Board Certified Teacher and a Certified Journalism Educator. She currently serves as chair of SIPA.
Nancy Hastings, Munster HS (Ind.)
Nancy Hastings is adviser to the Gold/Silver Crown and Pacemaker Paragon yearbook and Crier newspaper. She has taught at Munster HS for more than 30 years and is a frequent speaker at state and national conferences and summer workshops. She was named JEA’s 1997 National Yearbook Adviser of the Year. Hastings is the JEA state director for Indiana.
Dean Hume, Lakota East HS (Ohio)
A summer workshop speaker at a number of venues across the country, Dean Hume, CJE, advises the Spark newsmagazine at Lakota East High School, Liberty Township, Ohio. Spark, is an NSPA Pacemaker and All-American winner and a Quill and Scroll Gallup winner. A former sportswriter and columnist, Hume has taught newswriting and editing as an adjunct professor at Kent State University. He is a past executive director of the Journalism Association of Ohio Schools at Ohio State University.
A 1993 Dow Jones Newspaper Fund Distinguished Adviser, Hume is an NOSPA Executive Board member and a member of the NOSPA Adviser Hall of Fame.
Mary Inglis, Wellington HS (Fla.)
Mary Inglis has been advising publications since 1985. She currently advises the yearbook, Precedent, at Wellington High School in Wellington, Fla.
During CJI she teaches the advertising/business class. This is a class dealing with organization: from the business manager’s personal space, to the publication ’s files, to marketing strategies, to businesses to target, and to PR that works.
Inglis serves as the vice chair of the Southern Interscholastic Press Association’s and SIPA's endowment committee.
Kevin Kneisley, Gainesville HS (Ga.)
Kevin Kneisley teaches broadcast journalism at the Gainesville City Schools
at Gainesville, Ga. His newest honor is the distinction as an Apple Distinguished Educator for the class of 2007.
He continues to serve as the National Broadcast Liaison for the Journalism
Education Association.
Kneisley is the only high school teacher in the nation selected as a National
Association of Television Program Executives Faculty Fellow in 2004.
He was the catalyst for the first Apple Authorized Training Center in
seven Midwestern states in Hutchinson, Kan. and has created his second Apple Authorized Training Center in Gainesville, Ga.
Kneisley is a Certified Apple Pro Trainer instructing individuals and corporations from all over the world to edit with and use Final Cut Studio, Final Cut Express HD, iLife programs, DVD Studio Pro and Motion.
David Knight, Lancaster County School District (S.C.)
David Knight is the Public Information Director for the Lancaster County (S.C.) School District. He also teaches broadcast journalism at Lancaster High School. He has served as public information director for USC-Lancaster and as a student newspaper and literary magazine adviser for Spring Valley High School in Columbia, S.C.
While at Spring Valley, the newspaper and individual staff members received awards from state and national associations. The literary magazine also received top state awards. Knight is a favorite at journalism workshops across the country.
Honors Knight has received include SCSPA’s Scroggins Award, SIPA’s Distinguished Service Award, CSPA’s Gold Key and the 1977 Dent Junior High School Teacher of the Year.
Susan Massy, Shawnee Mission Northwest HS (Kan.)
Susan Massy, a former JEA National Yearbook Adviser of the Year, is the adviser of the Northwest Passage and The Lair, the newspaper and yearbook of Shawnee Mission Northwest High School, both of which regularly receive high honors in national competition. The Lair has been a NSPA Pacemaker winner numerous times and the Passage has won a Pacemaker the past two years.
Massy is currently the Kansas State director for JEA. She is a regular speaker at the national conventions. Massy also teaches at numerous summer workshops across the country.
In 1994, she received JEA’s Medal of Merit and was named Dow Jones Newspaper Fund Distinguished Adviser.
Amy Medlock-Greene, Dutch Fork HS (S.C.)
Amy Medlock-Greene, MJE, is the newspaper and broadcast adviser at Dutch Fork High School in Irmo, S.C. She holds a ,asters degree in educational technology and national board certification in journalism/career and technical education.
Her newspaper staff has consistently earned top ratings with both the South Carolina Scholastic Press Association and the Southern Interscholastic Press Association, and her broadcast staff earned SIPA’s prestigious Scroggins Award last year. She has presented sessions at SCSPA, SIPA, CSPA and NSPA conferences. Additionally, she has served as vice vhair and midlands representative on SCSPA’s executive board and as secretary for SIPA.
She first came to CJI as a rookie adviser nine years ago. She says it was her experience here that helped her maintain her sanity in the often-harrowing world of scholastic journalism. She has worked with Kevin Kneisley and the CJI broadcast class for the past two years, and is thrilled to be an “official” part of (and the only vegan on) the faculty this year.
Mark Murray, Arlington ISD (Texas)
After teaching photography at Lamar High School in Arlington, Texas for 12 years, Mark Murray moved to the administration building to assist in managing the technology being implemented in the Arlington public schools. While at Lamar he helped begin the award-winning élan literary and art magazine, named an NSPA Pacemaker, a CSPA Silver Crown and annually recognized as All-Southern by SIPA.
Murray is executive director of the Association of Texas Photography Instructors, an organization made up of photo teachers from art, journalism, industrial technology and vocational curriculum areas – one of the only state organizations of its kind in the United States. He was a founding member of the international Photo Imaging Education Association and served as its first chairperson.
He is the recipient of the JEA Medal of Merit, the NSPA Pioneer Award, the CSPA Gold Key and the TAJE Trailblazer Award. ATPI has also recognized him with their Star of Texas award for his contributions to photo education.
Jake Palenske, NCompass Media, LLC (Texas)
Jake Palenske is the President of NCompass Media, LLC in Dallas, Texas. Palenske is a graduate of Kansas State University and a past Technology Coordinator for the Journalism Education Association. His work at Kansas State earned him an Interactive Yearbook Pacemaker nomination and was published in the Best of Collegiate Design. Since 2003 his company has produced five out of six high school Interactive Yearbook Pacemaker winners. Palenske instructs at high school and college workshops across the country, and is a frequent speaker and judge at national and state journalism conventions.
Becky Lucas Tate, Shawnee Mission North HS (Kan.)
Becky Lucas Tate, CJE, advises the Indian yearbook and the Mission newspaper at Shawnee Mission North High School in Overland Park, Kan. Both publications frequently receive Crown and Pacemaker Awards. She has been honored as the Jackie Engel Kansas Journalism Teacher of the Year. DJNF and JEA have honored her as a Special Recognition adviser.
Sharing her love for journalism, she gets students interested in becoming a staff member in her Journalism I class. She also teaches editorial leadership and photojournalism.
Dow Tate, Shawnee Mission East HS (Kan.)
Dow Tate is publications adviser at Shawnee Mission East in Prairie Village, Kan. In 1997 the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund named Tate National High School Journalism Teacher of the Year.
Tate was inducted into the National Scholastic Journalism Hall of Fame in 2003. He is one of the authors of Scholastic Journalism, the nation’s oldest high school journalism textbook.
In addition to being on the CJI staff, Tate is a member of the ILPC Summer Publications Workshop faculty and is a popular speaker at state, regional and national workshops and seminars. He serves as the director of Gloria Shields All-American Publications workshop sponsored by Dallas County Schools.
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