Ms. Alana Escalante has advised Journalism at West High for nine years. She is most proud of the improvements to the program in the production of print copy as well as earning American Scholastic Press Association (ASPA) awards 2017, 2018 and 2019. She also took a team to Washington, D.C. in November of 2019 for the national Journalism Educator Association (JEA) and ASPA conference. Escalante brings both a bachelor's and a master's degree in English to her advising as well as her own experience writing for her school's newspaper ("Fannin Falcon") as a student in Texas.