September and October were busy months for Walsworth Journalism Specialist Mike Taylor and the panel of instructors who worked at Walsworth’s four Elite Weekend yearbook workshops.
Starting in Long Beach, California (Sept. 18-20), then working back to the Midwest with events Kansas City (Sept. 25-27) and Dallas (Oct. 2-4), before wrapping up in Orlando (Oct. 9-11), the Elite Weekends attracted 425 attendees looking to take their 2016 yearbooks to the next level.
Designed specifically for advisers and top-level editors, the Elite Weekends help staffs work on theme packages and cover all the latest design and coverage trends.
In addition to Taylor, this year’s Elite Weekends featured award-winning instructors, including Bruce Watterson from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association (CSPA), and former Journalism Education Association (JEA) Advisers of the Year Martha Akers, Crystal Kazmierski, Susan Massy, Lori Oglesbee, Margaret Sorrows and Dow Tate, as well as Renee Burke, a past JEA Distinguished Adviser and Becky Tate, a past JEA Special Recognition Adviser.
“We came to Elite Weekend with lots of ideas and left with our design and overall vision nailed down,” said Jenny McClelland, adviser from Benicia High School in Benicia, California. “The experts pushed us to refine our ideas over and over again. Then we came back to school and were so proud to show the rest of our staff the great progress we had made.”
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