Welcome to NewsLitCamp Illinois, in partnership with the Chicago Sun-Times and sponsored by The Robert R. McCormick Foundation!

NewsLitCamp is an immersive, free professional learning experience primarily for middle and high school educators. It features topical sessions (selected with input from participants) led by journalists and news literacy experts, designed to develop expertise in news literacy education, share specialized teaching resources and provide a behind-the-scenes view of the news reporting process.

You’ll leave NewsLitCamp with new ideas, skills and resources to help your students navigate today’s complex and challenging information landscape and demystify what distinguishes quality journalism from rumors, hoaxes and other types of misinformation.

Here on Sched, you can register for this event and access a schedule outlining the day’s virtual programming.

Sessions will take place via Zoom. Please note: you will need to be logged in to an active Zoom account to access these sessions.

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John Silva

News Literacy Project
Senior Director of Professional Learning
Chicago, IL

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John Silva is the News Literacy Project’s senior director of professional learning.

He joined NLP in March 2017 with 13 years of experience as a middle and high social studies teacher with Chicago Public Schools. He first became involved with news literacy in 2014 when his students engaged in NLP’s original classroom program.

A U.S. Marine Corps veteran, John spent several years in corporate telecommunications positions before deciding to become a teacher. He graduated from the University of Illinois at Chicago with a bachelor’s degree in the teaching of history and has a master’s degree in education, with a concentration in e-learning, from the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. He became a National Board Certified Teacher in 2012.

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