The Eagle

The Eagle is a Hit! First Issue Launch a Success.

2011-10-31T12:20:00.000-07:00

Dear Readers,

I would like to take the time to thank each of you for helping make The Eagle a hit at Eberhart Elementary. As your news team, we work hard to bring you the latest and most relevant news from around the school and community each month, but our work would be pointless without the support of our readers. If you enjoyed reading this month's issue, we'd love to hear from you.

What did you enjoy about the newsletter?
What would you change?
How can we make next month's issue even better?

Already, we're gearing up for the November issue of The Eagle. The journalists are already planning their stories for the next issue, the photographers are out capturing the news in pictures, and the design team is eager to start putting it all together. As you can see, we are very excited about this work, and we'd like the opportunity to make each issue better than the last. Your feedback and suggestions are always welcome.

As the celebration of our first issue continues, be on the lookout for our news team. The news can happen at anytime, and The Eagle is ready to report it. Thank you for making our work rewarding.

Eberhart...The Eagle Has Landed!

2011-10-30T12:59:00.000-07:00

Ladies and gentlemen, students, staff, and parents, for the past month, the dedicated staff of writers, photographers, and designers of The Eagle has been hard at work to bring you the latest news from across our great school. Now, without further ado, The Eagle is proud to announce the historic launch of its first issue. Head on over to the Issues section of our website to download your digital copy today! We hope you enjoy.

The Eagle is Coming!

2011-10-03T18:33:00.001-07:00

As the Editor in Chief of The Eagle, I am excited to announce the successful launch of Eberhart Elementary's new student newsletter. On behalf of The Eagle's staff of young journalists, I'd like to share the excitement and promise that this opportunity has presented. In my first month at Eberhart, I have witnessed, firsthand, the talent, creativity, and desire that our students possess to craft meaningful and purposeful writing. The Eagle is, in many respects, our own little sandbox...our proving ground to take our writing to new heights and new frontiers.

Among The Eagle's many exciting features are the medium through which we will reach a broader, more diverse audience. The Eagle, a monthly publication, will be distributed digitally in PDF format, making it more widely accessible to our readers from their computers, smartphones, and tablets. Teachers and parents, alike, will be able to share our journalists' writing with ease, making their writing experiences a platform for all our writers to examine and produce similarly fantastic work. Additionally, The Eagle can be accessed via this, our new blog and website. The addition of this site to our arsenal of distribution tools will also allow us to engage our readers more directly and make the process of creating our first and future issues transparent. The goal is simple, to make our writing and the writing it inspires a three-dimensional experience for all to enjoy. Lastly, the use of a digital medium for distribution significantly reduces our carbon footprint, while allowing us to bypass the limitations to publication imposed by paper, toner, and equipment costs.

Over the course of the year, our staff of journalists will have the opportunity to "dip their pen" into a broader variety of writing styles and techniques to produce their articles. As their writing teacher, this allows me to promote a passion for writing without stifling their writing or limiting it to a single style of writing over an extended period of time. Because writing for The Eagle is a small-group effort, I am able to give my students the one-on-one conferencing and attention to improving their writing that all young writers deserve. In that one month span, each group will have practiced, experienced, and developed their familiarity with whatever style and technique their project may have required, allowing them to try their hand at a different style and technique the next month.

In the coming days following this launch, our dedicated staff will be hitting the halls to promote The Eagle and encourage the submission of original student work through the projects they are developing for our October issue, set to release October 31st. I, too, encourage my colleagues to spread the word to their students and promote the contribution of their writing, art, and other original work to enrich the quality and variety of each issue. From room 707, this is Mr. Alday looking forward to bringing you our first issue of The Eagle very soon.