About me

Educator. Adviser. Learner. Colleague. Coach. Father. Husband. Friend.
Vince DeMiero

Here’s my story, and I’m sticking to it.

Here’s a recent bio that was written for me…

A veteran educator, Vince DeMiero currently serves as the past president of the Washington Journalism Education Association and was president from 2008 to 2012. As an instructor and adviser at Mountlake Terrace High School since 1988, he has taught English, journalism, film, photography and several other courses in this diverse suburban community 17 miles north of Seattle.

A respected leader, DeMiero served as the teacher leader of The Discovery School – one of five small schools that at one time made up Mountlake Terrace High School – as well as a current member and former chair of the school’s steering committee. He advises a highly capable and diverse staff of student journalists at Mountlake Terrace High School, where the student newspaper ����� HAWKEYE – along with its magazine, website and members of the student staff have won hundreds of international, national, regional and state awards. In 2012, DeMiero helped found what is now the Sound Live Sports Network that each school year live-streams nearly 100 live high school sporting events on the Internet with an all-student production staff.

DeMiero is a board member of the Journalism Education Association’s Scholastic Press Rights Commission. He served as the local organizing chair for the 1998 Journalism Education Association/National Scholastic Press Association national convention, and as an assistant for the 2005 and 2012 conventions. He has been a presenter at more than a hundred national, regional and state journalism and education conferences and is frequently called upon as an expert in student press rights. DeMiero was named the WJEA Adviser of the Year (1995 & 2006), the Edmonds School District Educator of the Year, and a Dow Jones Newspaper Fund Distinguished Adviser, and is an NSPA Pioneer Award recipient as well as a JEA Medal of Merit recipient.

DeMiero holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in communication from the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication at Washington State University, and an A.A.S. degree from Edmonds Community College, where was named a distinguished alumnus. He is also a certified CTE instructor.

He and his wife, Debra, live in the beautiful small town of Brier, Wash. They have four children and one grandson.

WJEA

WJEA

I’m a proud member and past president of the Washington Journalism Education Association.

DeMiero Jazz Fest

DeMiero Jazz Fest

Named in honor of my father, Frank, my family’s foundation produces an annual jazz festival.

Hawkeye

Hawkeye

The Hawkeye is the student news publication I advise at Mountlake Terrace High School.

More info to come…

I’ll be sharing a bit more about my involvement in youth sports, music and politics.