Identify strategies, infrastructure, allies and materials needed to grow from teaching thousands of students in 2011 to teaching millions of Americans in 2013.
To Speed Adoption of Proposed Courses:
1. Build and share a course proposal checklist and resource packet including:
- Model syllabi, course materials
- Fresh information on other adoptions
- Data on outcomes, student evaluations, enrollments
- Build one set of normative standards and assessments while still encouraging diverse approaches
- Correlation to graduation rates
- Charts linking News Literacy to new and existing standards (achieve.org’s Crosswalk tool)
- Campus strategy advice (grooming an internal champion, emphasizing interdisciplinary options, service learning component and finding the path of least resistance via English, Honors Colleges, etc.)
2.Build the same checklist course proposal package for high school adoption
3. Fund a National News Fellows program to permit a piloting of new courses without competition with other 100-level courses for adjunct and/or grad-student time
4. Build LinkedIn groups to share progress among schools
5. Build a Wiki Page so that anyone who hears of a proposal can learn more (underway)
6. Reach out to teachers
To Ensure Success of Adopted Courses:
1. Create model scholarship contest grant applications (go local)
2. Create humorous videos to recruit students, boost enrollment
3. Share the News Literacy pitch used at Stony Brook orientations
4. Build a best practices site (Including tapes of multiple teachers on the same topic for comparison)
5. Build a list-serv of all teachers
To Spread News Literacy Skills generally:
1.Share talking points and slides for advocates to use at civic clubs and other public events
2. Partner with Teach for America and City Year to train their volunteers to teach News Literacy
3. Train Knight Fellows headed overseas
4. Enlist Nieman, Knight and Wallace Fellows to teach at Harvard, Stanford and Michigan
5. Get on the Education radar: teacher conference presentations, publications, websites
6. Create National News Quiz Bowl
7. Offer online courses
8. Develop hubs nationwide to train high school teachers using News literacy Center summer model
9. Draft k-8 drop-in units to introduce students to terms and concepts early
10. Link to the new Ontario (Canada) curriculum portal
11. Support bilingual/Spanish training proposed by Federico Subervi and Ricardo Raphael
12. Reach adult education market via an audio book or Greatest Lectures recording
13. Develop and follow a media strategy to raise News Literacy’s profile in popular press
14. Train teachers and schools to use a fundraising template to raise funds for News Literacy programs
15. Build a nationwide speakers bureau of journalists trained to talk about News Literacy
16. Link with NIE for support of courses
17. Make a collaborative pitch to (a) foundation(s) for funding using the firepower of multiple organizations and geographic diversity
