{"id":14328,"date":"2025-10-17T10:16:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T14:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/?p=14328"},"modified":"2025-10-17T13:26:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T17:26:16","slug":"ocean-lakes-students-and-principal-team-up-for-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/ocean-lakes-students-and-principal-team-up-for-journalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Ocean Lakes students and principal team up for journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Ittner-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-14331\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Ittner-2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Ittner-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Ittner-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Ittner-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Ittner-2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Ittner-2-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Ittner-2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">By <a href=\"mailto:fara.wiles@vbschools.com\">Fara Wiles<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Journalism students at Ocean Lakes High School recently presented a staff card to the principal, Dr. Leslie Ittner, for the support she has given to The Current, the school\u2019s student newspaper.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Dr-Ittner-Thank-You-Journalism-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-14330\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Dr-Ittner-Thank-You-Journalism-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Dr-Ittner-Thank-You-Journalism-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Dr-Ittner-Thank-You-Journalism-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Dr-Ittner-Thank-You-Journalism-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Dr-Ittner-Thank-You-Journalism-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Dr-Ittner-Thank-You-Journalism-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Dr-Ittner-Thank-You-Journalism-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>It was the perfect gesture during National Principals Month.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Ittner wrote the first <a href=\"https:\/\/olhscurrent.org\/28180\/news\/bathroom-stalls-inform-dolphins\/\">Stall Seat Journal<\/a> of the year. The journal is a monthly <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1ILu_mCwjWNaPcK0B6Py3zDbtnso_bgri\/view\">published article<\/a> featured in the school\u2019s restrooms. She also conducted a press conference with The Current to \u201cmeet the new principal,\u201d sharing aspirations she has for herself and for Ocean Lakes.<\/p>\n<p>Ittner helped the staff purchase cameras, given the new cell phone policy for 2025-2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of my greatest strengths is care and concern for other people,\u201d Dr. Ittner said to one of the editors on The Current staff during the press conference.<\/p>\n<p>The reporters asked over 20 questions, and each one was answered with a genuine smile.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was inspired by my mom, who was a teacher,\u201d Dr. Ittner said. \u201cThat\u2019s what I knew. Being a teacher, being an educator.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"mailto:fara.wiles@vbschools.com\">Fara Wiles<\/a> is the newspaper adviser and school media liaison at Ocean Lakes High School. She teaches English and journalism.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Ittner-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-14332\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Ittner-3-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Ittner-3-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Ittner-3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Ittner-3-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Ittner-3-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Ittner-3-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Ittner-3.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Fara Wiles Journalism students at Ocean Lakes High School recently presented a staff card to the principal, Dr. Leslie Ittner, for the support she has given to The Current, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":14331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-staff-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14328"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14351,"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14328\/revisions\/14351"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}