For the Reporter
Auburn High School’s Thomas Kaup is a 2015 Dow Jones News Fund Special Recognition Adviser, the Dow Jones News Fund announced today.
Kaup advises the Troy InVoice newspaper and The Invader yearbook at the school.The 2013-2014 Washington State Journalism Adviser of the Year is rebuilding the journalism program he took over three years ago.
Kaup developed, wrote and published the complete middle school journalism curriculum for the Alice Buffett Magnet Middle School in Omaha, Neb., where he taught for 10 years. He taught high school journalism for six years previously and returned to high school journalism teaching with his move to Washington.
Kaup holds a master’s of education from Western Governors University, a Nebraska Teacher Certification with a journalism/mass media endorsement from Creighton University (Omaha), a master’s of Divinity in Sacred Theology from the University of St. Mary of the Lake (Mundelein, Ill.) and a bachelor’s degree from the University of St. Thomas (St. Paul and Minneapolis, Minn.). He is a Journalism Education Association master journalism educator.
He’s also taught at Roncalli Catholic and Cathedral high schools in Omaha; St. Albert Junior-Senior High School in Council Bluffs, Iowa; and George Russell Middle School in Omaha.
As a Special Recognition Adviser, Kaup will receive a plaque and a subscription to WSJ.com courtesy of the publishers of The Wall Street Journal.
The Dow Jones News Fund also named its National High School Journalism Teacher of the Year – Kirkwood (Mo.) High School teacher and media adviser Mitch Eden.
Distinguished Advisers are Sandra Coyer, Puyallup High School; Rachel Rauch, Homestead High School, Mequon, Wis.; Amanda Thorpe, Portage (Mich.) Community High School; and Mitch Ziegler of Redondo Union High School, Redondo Beach, Calif.
Other Special Recognition Advisers are Terry Cassreino, St. Joseph’s Catholic School, Madison, Miss.; Alena Cybart-Persenaire, Kennedy High School, Waterbury, Conn.; and Leland Mallett, Legacy High School, Mansfield, Texas.
The National High School Journalism Teacher of the Year Awards is sponsored by the Dow Jones News Fund, Columbia Scholastic Press Association, Poynter Institute for Media Studies and The Wall Street Journal.
