C. Dow Tate is a journalism teacher at Shawnee MissionEast High School in Prairie Village, Kansas, and the director ofthe Gloria Shields All-American Publication Workshop sponsored byDallas County Schools. In 2011, he was named a Kansas Teacher ofthe Year finalist. He was inducted into the Scholastic JournalismHall of Fame at the University of Oklahoma and was named a TexasLegend, as one of the most influential people in the state s75-year scholastic journalism history. His students publications the newspaper, yearbook and news website --have earned the nation s highest honors, including theNational Scholastic Press Association s National Pacemakerand the Columbia Scholastic Press Association s Gold Crown.Tate has been named the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund s NationalHigh School Journalism Teacher of the Year as well as the Texas MaxR. Haddick Teacher of the Year. Sherri A. Taylor teaches graphic design in theMultimedia, Photography and Design Department of the S.I. NewhouseSchool of Public Communications at Syracuse University. She is alsoDirector of the Empire State School Press Association at SyracuseUniversity, and Director of the School Press Institute, a summerjournalism workshop for high school students. As a high schoolteacher in Irving, Texas, she advised a state and nationalaward-winning yearbook and newspaper. She has been inducted intothe Scholastic Journalism Hall of Fame at the University ofOklahoma, was named a Pioneer from the National Scholastic PressAssociation and received a Gold Key from the Columbia ScholasticPress Association. She also received the Max R. Haddick Teacher ofthe Year award, and named a Texas Legend. She has judged theSociety of News Design s international competition and judgedthe Katie awards for the Dallas Press Club. She advises a magazine,MPJ, that has won both Associated Collegiate Press Pacemakers andSociety of Professional Journalists regional and national BestCollege Magazine awards.