Awards

Jeff Share
Elizabeth Thoman Service Award

Jeff Share’s research and practice focuses on preparing educators and university students to teach critical media literacy in K-12 education, for the goals of social and environmental justice. He has worked as an award-winning photojournalist, bilingual elementary school teacher, and since 2007, he has been educating new teachers in the Teacher Education Program at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Jeff presents nationally and internationally at conferences, provides professional development at schools, and writes about critical media literacy and environmental justice. He has trained educators in critical media literacy in the United States, India, Iraq, China, Mexico, and Argentina. An updated second edition of his book, Media Literacy is Elementary: Teaching Youth to Critically Read and Create Media, was published in 2015. Two years later Routledge published the book he co-wrote with Richard Beach and Allen Webb titled, Teaching Climate Change to Adolescents: Reading, Writing, and Making a Difference. Collaborating with Douglas Kellner in 2019, they published, The Critical Media Literacy Guide: Engaging Media and Transforming Education. (https://jshare.wixsite.com/jeffshare)

Jamie Gregory
Media Literacy Teacher Award

Jamie is the Upper School librarian and journalism/newspaper teacher at Christ Church Episcopal School in Greenville, SC. She is a National Board Certified Teacher in Library Media, finishing her 8th year as a high school librarian. She spent her first 8 years in public education as a high school English and French teacher, journalism teacher, yearbook and newspaper adviser, and AP English Language and Composition teacher before earning her MLIS degree from the University of South Carolina in 2012. She is an active member of the South Carolina Association of School Librarians, having served as the 2019-2020 Chair of the SC Book Awards programs. She was a judge for the 2021 YALSA Morris Award and is currently in her 3rd year of blogging for ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom blog. She completed freelance work with the News Literacy Project in 2020, helping develop the creation of a framework for teaching news literacy. She has presented sessions on high school literacy, guided inquiry-based learning, and news literacy at the South Carolina Association of School Librarians’ annual conferences as well as a webinar “Information Literacy and Elections” in October 2020. She will present a session at the SCASL summer institute in June 2021 on the new basics of information, media, and news literacy and will co-present a session “After Banned Books Week: Intellectual Freedom Programming Throughout the Year” in October 2021 at the national conference for the American Association of School Librarians. She has also published articles in School Library Monthly, VOYA, Teacher Librarian, and online with School Library Curriculum and Teen Librarian Toolbox.