About
Media Mentorship projects have been done in schools across Washington and beyond. Read below to see how they got started and evolved over the years.
Inspiration
Media Mentorship events were inspired by MisinfoDay, an annual event for high school students, teachers, and librarians co-hosted by the University of Washington's Center for an Informed Public and Washington State University's Edward R. Murrow College of Communication.​
Shawn Lee, a history teacher from Ballard High School in Seattle, attended the first MisinfoDay event in 2019 and returned to his classroom inspired to help his students learn to teach others how to better navigate our information environment.
Ballard High School Events
The first event was held at Ballard High School in Seattle, WA. Shawn Lee's AP US History class created short activities that they presented to underclassman in a station rotation in the library throughout the school day.
That year, Shawn co-founded Teachers for an Informed Public to help other K-12 educators bring these lessons to their students and communities.​ Since then, his students have hosted an annual event for family members.
Media Mentorship Across Washington
In 2023, with funding from the Co-Designing for Trust project, high school teachers and librarians from across Washington collaborated with University of Washington researchers and Teachers for an Informed Public to adapt the Ballard high school model to bring this unique learning experience to their own communities. You can explore their projects on the Materials section of this site.