Three Walsworth Yearbooks schools finish first at Seattle Best of Show
Three Walsworth Yearbooks schools took the top prize in their yearbook category at the Best of Show contest this past weekend at the JEA/NSPA Spring National High School Journalism Convention in...
View ArticleShare your yearbook knowledge by becoming a mentor – read more in our new eBook!
Advice is free, but it’s never cheap when it is given with care and received with enthusiasm. This is the purpose behind Walsworth’s new eBook, Becoming a Mentor. We’re recruiting mentors for our...
View ArticleAdministrator support can improve yearbook adviser success
Principal Brianna Kleinschmidt offers advice to administrators on how they can support their yearbook advisers. If you’re a first-year adviser, check out Kleinschmidt’s advice to you here. It was a...
View ArticleTime is running out on the 2017 Walsworth Yearbooks Photo Contest
Here’s a reminder: this year’s Walsworth Yearbooks Photo Contest ends on Friday night at 11:59 Central time. So there’s still time for students to submit their best shots for a chance to win one of...
View ArticleNew advisers can create a network of support
This is part two of our series with Brianna Kleinschmidt. For ways administrators can support new advisers, read part one here. Brianna Kleinschmidt took an unusual path to her current position. She’s...
View ArticleLearn the value of summer workshops in next Walsworth Yearbooks webinar
The next event in the Walsworth Yearbooks new advisers’ webinar series will focus on why yearbook advisers and staffs should be attending summer workshops. Why Workshops Work: The secret of a...
View ArticleDistribution Day – 10 steps to host a successful event
If you’ve never done it before, distribution day can be stressful – but it doesn’t have to be. With all the hard work put into the yearbook, you don’t want anything to go wrong the first time the...
View ArticleIndian Rocks staff shows off yearbook program with an Open House
If you need a good idea to help your recruiting for next year’s yearbook staff, or you simply want to create some good yearbook culture at your school, take a cue from Indian Rocks Christian School in...
View ArticleAdviser Academy offers special support for new yearbook advisers
Walsworth’s Adviser Academy is approaching quickly. This three-day workshop in Kansas City offers professional development, inspiration and the chance to collaborate with fellow advisers. The workshop...
View ArticleBrit Taylor of Hagerty High School named FSPA Teacher of the Year
Brit Taylor, CJE, the yearbook and newspaper adviser at Walsworth Yearbooks school Hagerty High School in Oviedo, Florida, was named the Teacher of the Year over the weekend by the Florida Scholastic...
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Walsworth Yearbooks announces winners of 2017 Photo Contest
The 2017 Photo Contest ended up becoming the largest ever for Walsworth Yearbooks, with more than 4,400 entries. Thank you once again to all the talented yearbook photographers who entered!...
View ArticleWatch the replay of May webinar, “Why Workshops Work”
If you couldn’t make it to our May 2 webinar, “Why Workshops Work: The Secret of a Successful Yearbook Staff,” don’t worry! A replay of the event is now available. The webinar, which was hosted by...
View ArticleCelebrate Teacher Appreciation Week with Walsworth Yearbooks
This week is the first full week of May, which makes it national Teacher Appreciation Week. Walsworth Yearbooks is excited to celebrate and honor all of the outstanding yearbook advisers and journalism...
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Looking back on 35 years – a retrospective take on a respected yearbook...
Yearbook advisers last an average of three years on the job, but Jim Jordan is retiring at the end of this school year with more than 10 times that tenure. He has been a yearbook adviser at Del Campo...
View ArticleFirst Flight staff making memes out of unused photos
Here’s a cool idea from the yearbook staff at First Flight High School in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, for a way to put those unused photos that didn’t make it into the yearbook to use. The First...
View ArticleSanta Rosa yearbook staff receives their mini fridge
Last month at the JEA/NSPA convention in Seattle, yearbook adviser Jessica Dennis from Santa Rosa High School in Santa Rosa, California, was one of two advisers who were drawn as winners of a mini...
View ArticleMcKinney staff creates eye-catching yearbook commercial
The yearbook staff at McKinney High School in McKinney, Texas, has given a late boost to their book sales this year, with the help of a fun, well-produced video that promoted this year’s yearbook theme...
View ArticleStressful but gratifying: Yearbook advisers’ impressions of their first year
The first year as a yearbook adviser can be stressful. It can also be wonderful. Walsworth spoke with four yearbook advisers who’d just completed their first or second year. They discussed the ups and...
View ArticleNSPA now offering inside look at Pacemaker judging
If your yearbook staff holds ambitions of becoming a national Pacemaker winner or Pacemaker Finalist, the National Scholastic Press Association (NSPA) is now providing an online resource that could...
View ArticleShawnee High yearbook staff gets extraordinary with 2017 promotions
The yearbook staff at Shawnee High School in Lima, Ohio, prides itself on annually coming up with creative ways to get students hyped up about buying the yearbook. We’ve written about their efforts...
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