Best and Brightest - Twenty midstate seniors are honored through The Patriot-News editorial department for excellence in scholastic, athletic, community service, career pursuits. Students receive a financial award from the Hersha Group of Companies and are profiled in a special section each May. Complete guidelines and applications appear in The Patriot-News each February. Contact mbradley@patriot-news.com or csterner@patriot-news.com.

Cate Cottontale - Our funny bunny (she's a stuffed animal toy) with her tub of props visits elementary classrooms. Children role play in an engaging drama about the news gathering process that results in headlines, deadlines and lead paragraphs. Children learn who, what, when, where, why and how. Contact rkeim@patriot-news.com.

Design an Ad - This real life experience allows fourth through 12th graders to create advertisements for area businesses that are published in The Patriot-News. Newspaper personnel can visit classrooms to teach about advertisements and how to design ads. Design an Ad curriculum is available. Contact csterner@patriot-news.com.

SchoolHouse News - Newspapers are integrated in classroom study and available at home for fifth graders in Harrisburg School District. Young people partner with adults at home to complete activity sheets using the newspaper. Families attend school literacy events for dinner and to enjoy fun newspaper activities. Financial contributions to SchoolHouse News include: Beverly Fowler Conner, Bill and Mary Lou Dallam, Norma Gotwalt, Clyde and Barbara McGeary and Morton Spector. For more information, contact csterner@patriot-news.com.

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Curriculum - Available to scholastic subscribers, printed materials are available for a variety of grade levels and subject areas. Sample titles include: What's News? Deadline, Byline, Online; Preparing for the PSSAs Using the Newspaper, Reading Anchors for Grades 3, 5, 8 and 11; Creating a Classroom Newspaper; Sports in the News and many more. Contact rkeim@patriot-news.com.

NIE WEEKS - Educational activities, curriculum, special programming and student-created newspaper section are offered for classroom use on a theme or focus each March. Sponsored through the Keystone State Reading Association and Pennsylvania Newspaper Association Foundation as well as the International Reading Association and Newspaper Association of America Foundation, NIE WEEKS is an observance celebrating the value of classroom newspaper use. Schools can order newspapers in any combinations of quantity and days. Contact rkeim@patriot-news.com.

Professional Development - Act 48 approved, workshops for literacy tutors wanting to help adult learners improve reading skills through newspaper use and in-service or faculty meeting presentations featuring hands on, standards based and relevant curricula are available year-round. NIEshops on special themes with curriculum materials are offered fall and spring after school at The Patriot-News production facility for educators and home school parents. Contact rkeim@patriot-news.com.

Speaker's Bureau - Is your school hosting a Career Day? Are your students anxious to publish a classroom newspaper? Do you want your students to understand how a newspaper is produced but you can't book a field trip to tour the newspaper? Is your school or organization hosting a Literacy Fair? Would your service organization like to hear about the educational opportunities presented to area schools by The Patriot-News community service department? A variety of NIE presentations is available. Contact csterner@patriot-news.com.

TCH498-74 - A three-credit graduate level course on Newspaper in Education is available each June for educators through Shippensburg University. Informational text and learning focused schools are highlighted in this high energy, interactive class. Participants receive a three ring binder of practical, engaging activities and units of curriculum. Taught by university staff and educational peers from area schools, the course is conducted on campus and at The Patriot-News. For information, contact rkeim@patriot-news.com.

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• Linda Rowe - Chair, Mechanicsburg Area SHS
  
• Stephanie Andrejack, East Pennsboro Area HS
  
• Marjorie Arnold, Eastern Lebanon County MS
  
• Earl Bright, Robert Reid ES, Middletown Area SD
  
• Rhonda Brunner, West Perry SD
  
• Joyce Cal, Hampden ES, Cumberland Valley SD
  
• Susan A. Catanzaro-Hoefler, Carroll ES, West Perry SD
  
• Janet Denlinger, Upper Dauphin Area ES
  
• Claire Dostich, retired
  
• Dawn Durham, West Creek Hills ES, East Pennsboro SD
  
• Dr. Sandra Fehr, Duncannon
  
• Elaine Fry, Carroll ES,West Perry SD
  
• Anne Hartzfeld, Thomas W. Holtzman, Jr. ES Susquehanna Township SD
  
• Dr. Peggy Hockersmith, Shippensburg University
  
• Ann Hoffman, retired
  
• Lisa Hoover, Broad Street ES, Mechanicsburg Area SD
  
• Carol Johnston, Dauphin County Library
  
• Katie Kokan, Eastern Lebanon County HS
  
• Teri Leisenring, West Perry MS
  
• Dr. Andrea Malmont, Shippensburg University
  
• Joanna McIntyre, Highland ES, West Shore SD
  
• Carol Ogilvie, Hershey HS, Derry Towhship SD
  
• Amy Rehmeyer, Hillside ES, West Shore SD
  
• Jamie Richardson, Shippensburg Area MS
  
• Debbie Rill, Milton Hershey School, Catherine Hall
  
• Gretchen Robbins, Millersburg Area HS
  
• Scott Scottson, Steelton-Highspire ES
  
• Elaine Stoll, Eastern Lebanon County HS
  
• Marilyn Stoner, Susquenita MS
  
• Linda Sunchych, Northern MS, Northern York County SD
  
• Deb Wire, Harrisburg SD
  
• Margee Ziegenfuss, East Pennsboro Area SD

Awards - The Patriot-Newspaper in Education program is the recipient of numerous awards including: The World Association of Newspapers NIE Award, 2007, Executive Women's International Harrisburg Branch Literacy Award, 2004. Pennsylvania Newspaper Association Foundation Newspaper of the Year Award for NIE: 1st place, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 1996, 1993; 2nd place, 1998, 1997. The Mini Page Award, 2001. Council for Public Education Community Service Award, 2000. Newspaper Association of America Program Excellence Award: 2nd place, 1999; 1st place, 1992. PARADE magazine/presstime Best in the Nation Award, 1998. Newspaper Association of America's Program Excellence Award of Highest Distinction, 1993. Pennsylvania Newspaper Publisher's Association Foundation Public Service Award, 1990. Public Relations Society of America, Central Pennsylvania Chapter Community Service Award, 1990.

Corporate Sponsors - Corporate Sponsors - Corporations, businesses, organizations and individuals contribute $648, $486, $324 or $162 a year or semester for The Patriot-News with the NIE Page to be used in area classrooms. 501(c)3 designation through the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association Foundation is available. Sponsorship acknowledgment occurs on the NIE Page and with recognition ads in The Patriot-News and NIE Special Section. Students also write thank you notes to sponsors. Contact sleggore@patriot-news.com or rkeim@patriot-news.com.

Sponsors for 2007 - 2008 include:

• B.R.P. Entertainment
  
• The Camera Box
  
• EARTH TECH
  
• Envirodyne Systems Inc.
  
• Executive Women International, Harrisburg Chapter
  
• Faulkner Honda
  
• Giuseppe Brothers Pizza
  
• Edwin L. Heim Co.
  
• Ira Heller, DDS PC
  
• Karns Quality Foods LTD
  
• Kiwanis Club of Middletown
  
• Novinger Group, Inc.
  
• Penn State College of Medicine
  
• The Phillips Group
  
• Rosewein Realty
  
• Rowe Screen Print, Inc.
  
• Way’s Lawn Care
  
• Wilson Gregory Agency Inc.

Lending Library - Printed materials and videos describing use of the newspaper as an instructional tool are available without charge to educators and home school parents. Located at our main office in Harrisburg, the library can be visited by appointment. Contact rkeim@patriot-news.com.

Mission Statement - The Patriot-Newspaper in Education program mission is to model the importance of the newspaper for participants in a democratic society; to affirm the importance of the newspaper as a tool for learning for children and parents; to advocate for the integration of the newspaper into all curricular areas through the school year; to convey the contemporary nature of the newspaper as especially useful in developing relevant activities that take students beyond the parameter of a textbook; to respond to the needs of the educational community in central Pennsylvania as newspaper use in the classroom continues to grow.

NIELine - Educators involved in NIE, Scholastic Art, Scholastic Writing and Spelling Bee can call InsideLine at 255-1212, message 9715, for weather-related announcements affecting judging, meetings and programs. The NIELine will be discontinued at the conclusion of the 2007-08 school year.

NIE now - Current and continuing projects and programs from the award-winning Patriot-Newspaper in Education program are detailed online for educators, parents and students. NIE Now takes the place of Newscope, a newsletter printed and distributed to educators several times during the school year.

Subscriptions - Classroom subscriptions to The Patriot-News and the Sunday Patriot-News are available at reduced rates in Cumberland, Dauphin, Lebanon, southern Northumberland, northern York and Perry counties and as can be distributed by our circulation department. A minimum order is five daily or Sunday newspapers for a 10-day period. Schools unable to fund newspaper use may request vacation donation funding. Contact csterner@patriot-news.com.

Tours - School, Scout and community groups are welcome to visit our main office in Harrisburg and/or production facility in Hampden Twp. to understand how information is gathered and distributed to keep readers in the know. Advertising, business, circulation, editorial, marketing and technology departments are located in Harrisburg. The newspaper is printed at and distributed from the production facility. Walking tours lasting about an hour are available for grades four and up. A 45-minute window tour including educational activity is available at the production facility for children in grades first through third. Tours should not exceed 25 individuals with one adult per ten students. Please click here for more information.

Vacation Donation - Vacationing readers can donate financial credit from their newspaper subscription accounts to NIE and help schools fund newspapers. Whether away a few days or a few weeks, contributions help students learn how to read and learn about the world and their community.

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