Teacher/Shakerite Advisor Selected As Reynolds Fellow

Natalie Sekicky -- an english teacher at Shaker Height High School, as well as the advisor on the student newspaper The Shakerite -- was chosen as a fellow for a journalism training program at the Reynolds High School Journalism Institute.

It's an intensive two-week journalism training programs for secondary school teachers hosted by five universities across the country, including Kent State University.

According to the Reynolds web site, fellows cover an array of topics including news literacy, reporting, writing, editing, multimedia, photojournalism, online layout and design, journalistic credibility, ethics and responsibilities, opinion pages, the future of news, business-side skills, First Amendment matters, privacy and the state of scholastic press freedom.

Sekicky will travel to University of Texas at Austin this June for the program.The Donald W. Reynolds Foundation will cover the travel, lodging and program expenses for her and the other fellows.

According to the Shaker Schools web site, Sekicky was chosen for the competitive program based on her work as advisor of the The Shakerite, as well as her essay on the newspaper’s ongoing transition from a monthly print-only edition to a multimedia news outlet that uses the web and social media.