During the past year I provided complete editorial services—writing, editing and proofreading—for the Temple University College of Education’s Educator magazine. During that time I worked with the college’s development office to produce two 24-page issues.
For the spring 2015 issue, I spent a full day at Philadelphia’s Maritime Academy Charter High School—the nation’s largest maritime school, whose administration and staff features a lot of Temple alumni. I interviewed those administrators, teachers and students and while working with Temple photographer Joe Labolito. Other stories included a profile of alum Henry Tisdale, the president of South Carolina’s Claflin University, one of the nation’s finest historically black colleges and universities; and the appointment of James Earl Davis, the college’s former interim dean, as the first Bernard C. Watson Endowed Chair in Urban Education.
Highlights of the winter 2016 issue of the Educator included a feature story on the college’s plans to launch an early learning & interdisciplinary center for the immediate North Philadelphia community. A related story featured Temple students, including many education majors, who—as part of a program called Jumpstart—spend part of their afternoons teaching preschoolers in such neighborhoods as Kensington. That story, which included a Temple student whose father had died of cancer discovering one of her young charges was rebelling because he didn’t have a father, reportedly reduced some readers to tears.
The winter issue also included a profile of Marjorie Neff, an alum with one of the toughest jobs in all of Pennsylvania. She’s the first educator to lead the School Reform Commission, which oversees the School District of Philadelphia.
In addition, for both issues my services included interviewing undergrad and grad students for a first-person “Our Students Speak” section; writing and/or editing news stories; editing faculty essays and faculty and alumni notes; and proofreading copy.
Click here to view the spring 2015 issue of the Educator.
Click here to view the winter 2016 issue of the Educator.