Lester Benz Scholarship

About Scholarship

Quill and Scroll will award the Lester G. Benz Scholarship to an adviser who undertakes a professional development activity over the summer or in the academic year. The award can be used to attend a National High School Journalism Conference, to pay for tuition for a university course in a relevant subject area, or for a summer workshop, the JEA Summer Advisers Institute or a local summer workshop in the applicant's state, to name a few. Quill and Scroll encourages applicants who teach at a Quill and Scroll charter school; have at least one year teaching high school journalism and/or advising publications; have a minimum of one year experience teaching journalism or advising school publications; plan to return to the high school classroom and media advising next year; and will apply the information gained in the course work, seminar or workshop taken as a result of this scholarship. The scholarship program's objective is to identify and reward experienced journalism teachers and publication advisers who seek the opportunity to upgrade their journalism skills, teaching methodologies and advising techniques. Two letters of recommendation from people who will attest to the applicant's journalism teaching skill, publication advising, quality of the journalistic writing course(s) the applicant teaches and the quality of the publication(s) the applicant advises are required. The letters of recommendation should come from any of the following sources: Superintendent; Principal; Vice or Assistant Principal; Department Chair; Regional or State Scholastic Press Association Director; Scholastic Journalism Workshop Director; a faculty member of the school, college or department of journalism for whom the applicant will take a journalism course; or JEA mentor, current or former. Please visit the scholarship's website for more information.

Offered by: Quill and Scroll Foundation