Journalism curriculum
The journalism class and the publication are the same class.
Most yearbook tools hand an adviser a binder that lives beside the work. Homeroom puts the lessons inside the software: a short lesson appears on the exact screen a student is on — the editor, the photo screen, the caption box, the newsroom board — so the lesson and the real work are the same action. It is the edge that wins a first-time, time-strapped adviser, and it is honest about which standards it meets.
Aligning to a standard is not the same as a credential or automatic course credit — and we say so, so a school never over-claims in a board meeting.
Live today
This is built and running today.
34 lessons that teach on the page
Thirty-four lessons ship today, each scoped to the student’s level and each explaining the journalism principle behind the click — so students learn the craft, not just the tool. Shipped
A standards alignment report
One report shows how each lesson matches journalism, English, career, technology, and media-literacy standards plus the school’s own state standards — across 51 states and areas. Every match points to a verified public standard code an administrator can check during a curriculum review. Shipped
Honest matching: align is not certify
Every lesson carries a few conservative national standard codes it demonstrably teaches toward, each with a written rationale — and the product is explicit that a match is not a credential, a contest rating, or automatic course credit. Shipped
Grades that post back to your gradebook
Per-student, per-lesson completion is walled by the student-privacy rules and summed for the adviser, with grades posting back automatically to the gradebooks schools already use. Shipped
Homeroom authors its own lessons and tags them to a multi-organization standards registry. We do not reproduce a membership group’s copyrighted, members-only lesson text — we mirror the structure the field already trusts and do the alignment work an adviser would otherwise do by hand.
The artifact a curriculum review actually asks for
Scholastic journalism has no single national standard with the force of the core English standards, so legitimacy is assembled by crosswalk — and Homeroom does the crosswalk for you. An adviser who picks their state gets an administrator-ready alignment report that reads, in plain terms, “this lesson satisfies this national standard, this English-language standard, and your state’s standard” — with every code checkable against the public source. That report is the document a department chair or a school board can sign off on, generated from the real, tested state of the lessons rather than a marketing claim.
Coming — the deeper course
The lesson engine and the alignment report are live; the full multi-level course loads onto them next. We name these as coming, never as available.
The deep-content units
Full units in reporting and news-gathering, interviewing, writing and news style, journalism ethics and sourcing, press law and student rights, design, and photojournalism — authored as the source of record and being loaded as live lesson cards. Coming
Three levels in one course
One curriculum in three forms — a scaffolded middle-school course, a full high-school pathway, and an advanced honors form for second- and third-year editors — so a school of any size is served in the right voice and depth. Coming
Year-long pacing plans
A ready-to-teach, week-by-week plan for a full school year at each level, with the production deadlines built in so the lessons and the real publication calendar line up — so a new adviser can open it in August and teach the whole year. Coming
We’re honest about what’s shipped
The teach-as-you-build coach with 34 live lessons, the standards alignment report across 51 states and areas, the honest align-is-not-certify stance, the multi-level lesson engine, and grade passback are live today. The full deep-content units, the three-levels-in-one course, and the year-long pacing plans are coming — we will not call them shipped until they are.