“This job, teaching, is just journalism for a smaller audience.” Students in my classes report, broadcast, publish and perform, and almost everything they make goes out into the world.
WACS is the school’s student-run news, video and social media operation. Students pitch, report, produce and publish, and they run it like a newsroom.
WACS Daily, a live show every school day since fall 2024, and WACS Weekly, 88 episodes over three seasons.
Watch the shows →
Students stream commencements, awards nights, concerts, assemblies and ceremonies for families watching from home.
See the livestreams →
Short documentaries and features reported, shot and edited by students, from a retiring band director to a portrait of the whole school.
Watch the films →
A student-built theater archive, the Alumni Wall of Fame, game-day graphics and six social channels.
See the projects →Students take roles they’re interested in, and there’s always room to invent a new one.
An interactive touchscreen display at Alden High School that honors the school’s Distinguished Alumni. A WACS student designed the first version in spring 2025, teaching herself Figma with little more than a nudge from me, and WACS students produced the video profiles of the honorees. This fall we refreshed the design so it flows better and draws in people walking by.
After reading Tuesdays with Morrie, students choose the person who has shaped them most, interview them, and publish the conversation on a website the class designs. Six collections since 2022.
“I really don’t think you have to have it all figured out.”From a spring 2026 episodeListen to the collections →
A literary magazine run start to finish by students in Creative Writing, from submissions and editing to design. Read the issues:
All issues →[Two or three standout independent student projects, each with a sentence and a link.]
PRISM is Alden High School’s Gender-Sexuality Alliance, a club that brings LGBTQ+ and allied students together to build community. I’ve advised it since 2021 and co-advise it now with social studies teacher Jamie Williams.
WACS students have covered the club since its first year with me.
April 2025
March 2025
April 2024
June 2023
June 2022
June 2026Photos, video and notes from every show I’ve directed.
