Celebrate Scholastic Journalism Week 2018 with a different theme each day
One of our favorite weeks of the year has arrived here in the Yearbooks Blog! We don’t get quite as excited as we do for National Yearbook Week in October, but it’s close. Scholastic Journalism Week is...
View ArticleWalsworth launches updated online home for new yearbook advisers
No yearbook company offers better support for new yearbook advisers than Walsworth Yearbooks. Walsworth is the place for new advisers, and providing everything those advisers need to be successful is...
View ArticleYearbook staffs shouldn’t slough off the colophon
You’d be surprised how often it happens. You pick up a yearbook, see a cover design you really love, or flip through and eye a font you like, then flip to the back looking for the colophon to read the...
View ArticleWalsworth’s 2018 Photo Contest begins Monday
This year’s Walsworth Photo Contest begins on Monday morning. For the next month, yearbook photographers across the country will have their chance to win one of 10 $100 Visa gift cards (and bragging...
View ArticleNew advisers can succeed by following these tips
Updated by Walsworth Yearbooks In a yearbook utopia, the new teacher would have a journalism degree, take photos like a pro, be able to manage a group of teenagers with aplomb and truly understand the...
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Yearbook Advisers of Note: Meet Sandy Routh
Tucked away in Trinity, North Carolina, is a powerhouse of a yearbook adviser named Sandy Routh. Even though she is primarily a social studies teacher, she has done two stints as an adviser – one...
View ArticleSales reps serve as front line of Walsworth service
This post is the last one in a four-part series highlighting the employees and departments that provide Walsworth’s outstanding customer support. You can read about the artists in Walsworth’s Creative...
View ArticleLoyola Marymount’s 2017 Tower named a Gold Crown winner by CSPA
The 2017 Tower yearbook from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California, was one of only two yearbooks to be honored with a Collegiate Gold Crown from the Columbia Scholastic Press...
View ArticleFind your yearbook match with the Spring 2018 issue of Idea File
The Spring 2018 issue of Idea File magazine will be arriving in schools this week and is now available over in our Idea File section. The theme of the latest edition is all about support and...
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First things first: Find your theme
Before your 2018 yearbook is delivered, distributed and the final bell rings, let’s get everyone on the same page about this yearbook theme thing. Let’s get them all thinking in a direction that the...
View ArticleCSPA announces scholastic Gold and Silver Crown winners for 2017 yearbooks
Four 2017 high school yearbooks printed by Walsworth Yearbooks received Gold Crowns from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association (CSPA) Friday, with another ten 2017 Walsworth books earning Silver...
View ArticleEmpowering yearbook students to become future leaders
“A young girl was walking along a beach upon which thousands of starfish had been washed up during a terrible storm. When she came to each starfish, she would pick it up, and throw it back into the...
View ArticleThe story of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School
It would have been understandable if Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School’s student journalists and the staff suspended operations after the tragedy at their school. Instead of opting out, those...
View ArticleTeaching written and visual storytelling
The websites Humans of New York and StoryCorps are great examples of written and visual storytelling. Use them to teach your students how to get more personal interest stories into this year’s book if...
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Everyone wins, when everyone’s in
Quality yearbook content is reflective of the school population… So shouldn’t the staff be as well? At the front of the room, surrounded by boxes of yearbooks, Faith Pagan addressed the class. For many...
View ArticlePlan a smooth yearbook distribution day with new Walsworth eBook
All the hard work your yearbook staff puts in throughout the course of the school year pays off when the final product gets delivered. The unveiling of the yearbook to the entire school can be magical,...
View ArticleEnhancing your yearbook with Yearbook AR
It’s been about two months since Yearbook AR was released, and more than 400 schools are already signed up. These schools don’t have to wait for next year to use the app; they can (and are!) create...
View ArticleHere’s how you can turn your yearbook distribution into a “Big Event”
Students love signing yearbooks for their friends. It’s one of the aspects of a yearbook that makes it so memorable and so much fun to look back on years later. Is your staff planning a yearbook...
View ArticleNew Walsworth eBook shows how to keep busy once the yearbook is done
It’s a dilemma for many yearbook staffs every year. You work hard for months and frantically race to get all your pages submitted by the final deadline. And you make it! Then, you realize there are...
View ArticleWalsworth once again will be bringing excitement to JEA/NSPA San Francisco
The JEA/NSPA Spring National High School Journalism Convention kicks off this week at the Marriott Marquis in downtown San Francisco, and Walsworth Yearbooks is ready for a fun week in the Bay Area....
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