Montgomery Community Media

In many instances, parenting can be very rewarding. However, along with the rewards often comes significant stress and frustration. You will be the best parent possible if you take care of yourself. Here are a few suggestions to do that: 1) Set aside a period of time each week where you do something fun or […]

On Friday, I visited Oakland Terrace Elementary School in Silver Spring to speak with 85 second graders about hunger. The second graders at Oakland Terrace spent the past six weeks studying nutrition, and recently conducted a Healthy Cereal drive for Manna Food Center. Go second grade! In my visit, the 85 students and I discussed […]

A critical component of all great project work, threading its way through the authentic year-long process is field experience. Students must observe first hand the work of their professional counterparts in the real world. Then, they will know that what they are doing is significant, that what they are doing can and will make a […]

Mandi Wyndham is the training and volunteer services coordinator at Montgomery Community Media (MCM) and she is the lead instructor of the Backpack Journalism program. She also coordinates the annual Monty awards ceremony, which is scheduled for Nov. 17 at the BlackRock Center for the Arts in Germantown. I recently asked Mandi a few questions […]

This open house is to introduce people to the  Explorers program.  Exploring is Learning for Life’s career-education program for young men and women ages 14 (who have completed 8th grade) – 20. Many community organizations are selected to be Explorer Posts and are available to give real hands on experience for the youth in the community. […]

When I worked in TV Programming at Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), we gathered the department in an undersized conference room each Friday afternoon to review current projects. John Wilson, head of Programming at the time, didn’t always attend those meetings. But this particular Friday, he did… as he had a serious item he wanted to […]

I’ve got a birthday coming up, and I have noticed that as I get older I become more and more interested in history.  Maybe it is a sense of my own morality–the older you get the more your realize your time on this planet is limited. I also think that the longer you live the […]

After the bloodletting – now what? Business shrinking?  Contracts diminishing? If you’re rightsizing or downsizing your company in this economy, make sure you don’t stop with the job half done. You obviously have to do what the finance person or the Excel spreadsheet tells you.  Nobody can run a business at a loss, and if […]

The Oregon Ducks are usually known for their luxurious training facilities and flashy uniforms but they can play a little football too. The ducks are 8-0 this year and are number 2 in the nation only behind Alabama. You may look at the ducks schedule and say that they don’t have any competition. Even though […]

So technology is having a REALLY bad month. First, the rollout of the online portion of the Affordable Health Care Act has been pretty much a disaster. Sure, the ACA is a complicated program with vagaries based on location and myriad plans and options. Yet is there ANY more important program to the Obama Administration […]