Alexandra Moses

Washington, DC USA
Website: http://www.alexandramoses.wordpress.com
Contact

Professional Experience

I'm an education writer and mom of two who splits time between running my kids to sports practice and writing from home while they bounce on the couch cushions. I've done a cover story on grade schools for Working Mother, a parenting essay on work-life balance for washingtonpost.com, and a piece on toddler eating habits for Parenting: The Early Years. In my 15 years as a reporter, I've written numerous service pieces with expert tips and multiple sidebars. I specialize in education and parenting issues.

Expertise

Editor
5 Years
Reporter
17 Years
Writer
17 Years

Specialty

Education
17 Years
Family, Children & Teenagers
3 Years
Arts & Humanities
10 Years

Industries


Magazine - Large Consumer/National magazines
5 Years
Wire Service
6 Years
Newspaper - Community
3 Years

Total Media Industry Experience

17 Years

Media Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)

Edutopia/Edutopia.org (10+), Instructor Magazine (3-5), NEAMB.com (3-5), Asia Society (10+), Parenting (1-2), The Hechinger Report (1-2), Univerity of Phoenix (1-2), Working Mother (1-2)

Other Work History

Reporter, The Associated Press (Detroit/Lansing,1998-2004)

Computer Skills

Word, Excel, Keynote, Mac OS 10

Equipment

Digital camera, audio recorder, desktop computer, laptop

References

Available upon request

Associations

Education Writers Association, American Library Association

Showcase

Writing Samples

It's a busy world
(alexandramoses.com 11/29/2010)
Musings on the work-life-school-kids balance.
Baghdad Boy
(Metro Times 8/11/2004)
Cover story about a young reporter who went to Iraq, started a newspaper and then wrote a book about it.
Presumptions at Bey
(Metro Times 3/21/2004)
Story about photographer Dawoud Bey and his work with Detroit high school students.
A leisurely life
(Hybridmom.com 7/15/2010)
Blog post on embracing the joy that is being a mom.
Bright Sheng
(Associated Press 8/1/2002)
Feature story on composer Bright Sheng.

General

Corridor of Shame
(Administrator Magazine 10/1/2006)
Feature story on students who photographed their deteriorating schools as part of efforts to improve these conditions.
Make Your School a Better Place to Work
(Instructor Magazine 11/29/2010)
Story on how teachers can take action to improve their school as a workplace -- and how that trickles down to the students.
Fixing Bad Schools
(Edutopia 8/4/2009)
Analysis of one of the Obama Administration's core reforms for education: Fixing failing schools. This is one of four stories from 8/4/09 that ran on http://www.edutopia.org
Literature Circles
(Edutopia.org 3/1/2008)
Stadium School
(Edutopia.org 4/1/2007)
Feature story about a middle school taking project-based learning to the extreme.
Web Researchers
(Edutopia 8/1/2008)
At a Chicago-area school, teachers stop being the only educators in the room when students hit the Web.
Multicultural Education
(Blurdigital.com 8/15/2008)
An overview of how schools are doing when it comes to incorporating multicultural education.
Tech Support
(Edutopia 6/1/2008)
A look at the lack of technical support in public schools and some of the innovative ways schools are getting around it.
Second Opinion
(Teacher Magazine 10/1/2005)
5 Things Schools Don't Teach Our Kids
(Working Mother 8/1/2012)
Service piece about the key things kids don't get in the classroom, and how parents can work on these skills at home.
Instructors Embrace Tech Tools
(University of Phoenix Faculty Matters 6/1/2011)
This articles explores today's university classroom, and how instructors must embrace the spate of tech tools that students to class.
Financial Literacy
(Edutopia 9/28/2008)
Teachers across the country give their students lessons on finance, but it's not always easy to fit in this kind of real-life instruction, even when economic times suggest it's necessary.
Teacher Training
(The Hechinger Report 5/12/2010)
Story about the challenges in training a growing pool of career-changers, and how teacher training in general is under fire.
Best Practices in K-12
(Phoenix Focus 8/1/2011)
A feature story highlighting three of the strategies that are working in K-12 classrooms today: Cultural competence, social and emotional learning and digital literacy.
New Twist on Tech Ed
(Edutopia.org 5/1/2009)
Today's career and technical education classes teach kids more than how to saw wood or change oil; they're integrating 21st Century skills with cutting edge technology to produce students ready for the workforce.
Teaching Philanthropy
(Edutopia.org 11/1/2008)
Story about curriculum that not only encourages student service, but teaches the meaning of philanthropy.
Stimulus and Education Technology
(Edutopia.org 2/20/2009)
Analysis of what schools might expect in extra technology funding under the federal stimulus package.
What Makes a Great School
(Working Mother 8/8/2009)
Advice for busy moms on the key elements of a great grade school -- and what they can do to help their school be the best.