Zoller Receives Newspaper Adviser Award

The Dow Jones News Fund (DJNF) has recently named Buffalo Grove resident Stan Zoller, journalism teacher at Rolling Meadows High School, as one of four Distinguished Advisers in its National Journalism Teacher of the Year competition. Zoller is adviser for the award-winning RMHS student newspaper, The Pacer.

A distinguished panel selected the honored teachers, based on submissions that included their student publications, résumés, letters of recommendation and responses to 14 questions. The adjudicators weigh each teacher's service in journalism organizations, personal and publication awards, the quality of their students' work on the school publication, and their philosophy and approach to student press rights and ethics. Zoller was selected as a Special Recognition Adviser by the DJNF in 2010.    

Zoller and the three other 2011 Distinguished Advisers, along with Journalism Teacher of the Year Aaron Manfull (Francis Howell, North High School in Missouri), will receive free subscriptions to The Wall Street Journal Classroom Edition, a co-sponsor, which includes 30 copies of the full-color newspaper for students, a free Teacher Guide, unlimited access to the Classroom Edition website and a daily Journal.

Poynter Institute will also give the top teachers and their students access to webinars through its NewsU training project. One journalism student at each of the four Distinguished Advisers' schools will receive a $500 college scholarship.

The honorees will be recognized for their outstanding achievement at the Journalism Education Association/National Scholastic Press Association convention Nov. 17-20 in Minneapolis.