Sessions of 2026 Connection Conference: Brianne McConnell
McConnell, Brianne
CTE Instructor
Brianne McConnell holds a degree in Journalism and brings a unique blend of professional communications and classroom experience to media education. She spent eight years working in public relations at Pima Community College and the Southern Arizona Home Builders Association (SAHBA), where she was responsible for layout design, reporting, writing, editing, and photography for monthly newsletters and quarterly magazines. McConnell has been in education for 15 years, teaching high school English Language Arts and Journalism at several Tucson-area charter schools. For the past nine years, she has served as the yearbook adviser and Digital Communications teacher at Marana High School, and she also has been the Digital Communications teacher and yearbook adviser at Mountain View High School for the last two years. Her passion lies in helping students develop authentic storytelling skills, strong visual design practices, and real-world communication habits they can carry beyond the classroom.
Sessions:
[5685] Write Like it's Real: Teaching Journalistic Writing in CTE
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Westin La Paloma
- Business and Marketing Education
- Communications Media Technologies
Participants will learn practical strategies for teaching journalistic writing (leads, quotes, structure, captions, revision), creating authentic assignments and using a layered feedback system that builds student leadership while keeping writing manageable in production-based classrooms like yearbook and digital media.
