NYNPA niE-News
To Keep Pace with Tomorrow's Education and Information Needs

Volume 7, Number 12                                                                                                Monday, December 7, 2015   

In This Issue
Use the NY Newspapers Foundation to increase holiday charitable giving to your NIE program!
When New York Was New - the latest Statewide Serial Story
Free NIE feature for December
Free Resources
Promote Young Voices of New York to your readers for their children or grandchildren to sign up!

CIVICS EDUCATION CORNER

A FREE downloadable presentation describes the free press rights of high school journalists afforded through court decisions and state laws. The presentation discusses the major court cases that have helped define the First Amendment protections that apply in school. It also provides practical suggestions for maintaining a free and responsible student publication.

FAMILY ENGAGEMENT IN EDUCATION
- TIP OF THE MONTH - 
DayByDayNY.org
DaybyDayNY is a website for young children and their families. It is part of the New York State Library early literacy initiative Ready to Read at New York Libraries.

The New York State Library hopes that families across New York State will use this interactive calendar to develop a love for books and learning that will last a lifetime. The calendar uses multimedia to enhance books, songs, and family health and bring these components to life.  If families can only spend a few minutes together, this calendar will give them something they can use to make sure that this is quality time as well as educational time.

Quick Links
 
Use the New York Newspapers Foundation for Charitable Giving!
Consider making a donation to support the New York Newspapers Foundation! 
donation button
Click the button above to place your donation through PayPal.

Your contribution will help support training for newspaper staff, Newspaper In Education programming and much more!
 
Would you like your own donation button to help support your newspaper's NIE program?
   
Any NYNPA member paper is welcome to have one set up completely free. Contact Mary Miller to find out the details and to set one up today!
 
Need or Want Training?
Whether it's training for the newspaper staff to raise money for your program or help working with local teachers on your NIE Program or training for local teachers to use your NIE program, News Media Literacy (from editorial cartoons to close reading) - Contact Mary Miller for FREE training.
The 11th Annual Statewide Serial Story When New York Was New is ready to review
All resources are FREE to NYNPA member newspapers because of continued support from NYSUT and NY Newspapers Foundation.   
When NY Was New Logo

Author Mike Peterson and Illustrator, Christopher Baldwin are again teaming up to create a brand new non-fiction serial for NYNPA members to share with teachers and students around the state.   The 8-chapter story covers the native populations and the intersection of the early European exploration and settlements in the new world through the events that formally formed our boundaries. 

The story, illustrations, audio podcasts of each chapter, teachers' guide, and student contest are all included at no charge to member newspapers who are welcome to share this content in-print or online.  The story can run anytime between January 1, 2016 and end of the school year in June.

Click here to download the Newspaper Agreement form 2016.  Contact Mary Miller with any questions - mmiller@nynpa.com

Celebrate International Human Rights Day
One of a series of FREE monthly NIE features you can share in-print or online! 
The NYNPA Newspaper In Education Program is offering all member newspapers a series of 12 stand- alone, 4 column x 10", monthly features to help you raise money and awareness for your local NIE efforts.
 
This month's feature highlighting International Human Rights Day and the UN adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is pictured right.

Contact Mary Miller at mmiller@nynpa.com or call 518-449-1667 x 701 for a high resolution copy of this feature.  January's feature is a tribute to the Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. To view images of the completed features or the list of what is planned for the rest of the year visit http://www.nynpa.com/nie/MonthlyNIEFeatures.html.
4-part Mini Series for Black History Month and Women's History Month now ready
$20 each to NYNPA member newspapers - also available to non-member publications on circulation size based pricing. 
Each series includes the profiles which can be shared with area schools in-print on online, audio podcasts of each profile and corresponding teaching guides.  Each series is only $20 for NYNPA member newspapers. Non-member pricing depends on the size of the newspaper making the request. To order these materials use the Famous New Yorker's order form pictured and linked here or contact Mary Miller at mmiller@nynpa.com or call 518-449-1667 x 701.

The individuals profiled for each series includes:
Black History Month -
George Crum (invented potato chips), Ella Fitzgerald, James Baldwin, Ernie Davis

Women's History Month - Sybil Ludington (female Revolutionary War Hero), Blanche Stuart Scott (female pilot/dare devil), Margaret Evans Price (Illustrator) and Madeline L'Engle.
 
Free Teaching Resources for December & January 
Here is a list of NIE and other resources for kids, teachers or parents can use to enhance their students' education.

Education World Holiday Lessons December's school vacation is just around the corner, the kids are wound up, so turn students' excitement into true learning with this week's easy-to-manage lesson plans from Education World

Short Newspaper Activities for any Day's Edition: Warm-up activities, curriculum extensions, skill builders, literacy games, substitute lessons, or just for fun: this collection of reusable activity sheets in PDF format is one-stop shopping for all of these purposes and more...Each idea below can be used with any day's issue of The New York Times.  Many may work with any edition of any daily newspaper.

Holiday Newspaper Scavenger Hunt
Snowman Cupcakes
 
Directions: See how many of the following Holiday-related items you can find in your newspaper:
 
1. A story about someone or a group helping other people 
2. An image or cartoon with Santa Claus, Christmas Tree, Menorah or other holiday symbol (extra credit if you find more than one!)
3. Someone who has been naughty 
4. Someone who has been nice 
5. A place you would like to visit during the holiday break 
6. A movie you would like to go see 
7. An advertisement of something you would like as a gift  
8. An advertisement of something you would like to give to someone else
9. Any headline that includes the word HOLIDAY
10. A story about people celebrating the season  
11. A yummy holiday recipe
12. A story or forecast of winter weather     
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Grinch  Persuasive Writing Lesson - In this fun Christmas activity students write to the Grinch describing why they love Christmas (to try to change the Grinch's mind) 

Suggest they write this in the form of a newspaper editorial!

Source: HotChalk - Lesson Plans by Teachers for Teachers
 
 
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Current word lists and puzzles from MyVocabulary.com:
All MyVocabulary.com content is printable for NIE programs without a charge. Please honor trademarks and copyright, giving MyVocabulary.com attribution.
Remember...we're always looking for new young writers for YVNY!
The site is intended for kids, 13 years old and younger, who are interested in writing and journalism.  It's free to join but requires parental permission.  Contact Mary Miller at mmiller@nynpa.com
or click here to visit the website for more information.
"NYNPA niE-News" is an electronic newsletter of the New York News Publishers Association, NIE Program. It is sent to provide you with news of your colleagues, money-saving and money-generating ideas, and educational trends, all in one place - in a format you can quickly scroll through. Feel free to forward this newsletter to anyone you think would benefit from it. If you have an item you'd like to share - a success story, a warning so others don't make the same mistake, or a something you'd like advice on, simply hit the "reply" button on your e-mail service. Remember, you can always send news by emailing Mary Miller at mmiller@nynpa.com
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Sincerely,

Mary Miller
Education Services Director 
New York News Publishers Association