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How a new adviser, new editors and new outlook made for one of Azle High School’s best yearbooks ever When The Hornet yearbook staff at Azle High School in Azle, Texas, gathered for their very first...
View ArticleWatch replay of design webinar with Mike Taylor
Walsworth’s first webinar of National Yearbook Week 2018 took place on Tuesday afternoon, with Mike Taylor’s presentation, “Content-Driven Yearbook Design.” Taylor spent 60 minutes discussing how your...
View ArticleAsk Mike: Why should I join NSPA?
School is underway throughout the country and yearbook staffs are gearing up for their first big deadline. Now is the perfect time to join the National Scholastic Press Association (NSPA)! In the...
View ArticleTwelve Walsworth Yearbooks schools represented in 2018 NSPA individual...
Schools across the country have been eagerly awaiting the announcement of the National Scholastic Press Association (NSPA) Individual Award finalist selections. Students and advisers can now take a...
View ArticleGet feature writing tips with the replay of Feature It! webinar
Walsworth’s Jim Jordan and Susan Massy, yearbook adviser at Shawnee Mission Northwest High School in Shawnee, Kansas, held the second of two live National Yearbook Week webinars on Thursday. Their...
View ArticleYearbook Advisers of Note: Meet Courtney Hanks
Earlier this year, Courtney Hanks was named a Rising Star by the Journalism Education Association. Now she’s our latest Adviser of Note. Hanks was also featured on an episode of the Yearbook Chat with...
View ArticleAdvisers from Chisholm Trail, North Ridgeville win mini-fridges in National...
Nearly 500 yearbook advisers from all over the country entered Walsworth’s “The Best Thing About Yearbook is…” contest during National Yearbook Week 2018 last week. Once the dust settled, two lucky...
View ArticleYearbook grading questions? We’ve got answers!
We know that grading a yearbook class isn’t always straightforward. There’s so much to consider and many factors you don’t have in other classes. We’re here to help with our newest resource for...
View ArticleAsk Mike: How can student leaders coach great writers?
While working with schools at the Kansas City Elite Weekend this September, Ask Mike host Mike Taylor, CJE, was really impressed by four students. So he interviewed them. These four young women are...
View ArticleShawnee Mission East honored with three 2018 Portfolio of the Year Finalist...
Walsworth Yearbooks was represented in the Finalist selections announced this week by the National Scholastic Press Association (NSPA) for their 2018 Portfolio of the Year contest, with three entries...
View ArticleYearbook Advisers of Note: Meet Alyssa Boehringer
Alyssa Boehringer, of McKinney High School in McKinney, Texas, is currently advising her third yearbook, but she’s already no stranger to awards. Boehringer was one of four educators to receive the...
View ArticleMake sure your yearbook staff keeps these tips in mind this Halloween
Next week is Halloween, which is always one of the more colorful, photogenic events of the fall for yearbook staffs to document. Many schools incorporate Spirit Week around the week of Halloween, so it...
View ArticleCSPA names 24 Walsworth Yearbooks schools Crown Finalists
Twenty-four of Walsworth Yearbooks’ 2018 yearbooks were named a 2019 Crown Award Finalists by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association (CSPA) today. These are the 2018 Walsworth yearbooks announced as...
View ArticleAsk Mike: How do I find and tell awesome yearbook stories?
With many schools just past that first big yearbook deadline, now is the perfect time to refocus on storytelling. In this week’s episode of Ask Mike, host Mike Taylor, CJE, speaks to two advisers who...
View ArticleCome see Walsworth Yearbooks at JEA/NSPA in Chicago
The 2018 JEA/NSPA Fall National High School Journalism Convention comes to the Hyatt Regency in downtown Chicago this week and Walsworth Yearbooks will be in the Windy City and in the middle of the...
View ArticleYour attention please – study these types of story leads
Updated by Walsworth Yearbooks Good leads begin stories. Bad leads can finish them. If the first couple of sentences don’t make the reader feel helplessly curious and compelled to continue, your body...
View ArticleAsk Mike: How do I take even better photos?
Prepare to laugh. In this week’s episode of Ask Mike, host Mike Taylor, CJE, brings in photography expert Mark Murray. These two have been friends for a long time, and they’re not afraid to rib each...
View ArticleEl Camino students win big in Social Media Writing competition
It’s not often that students from one school can claim first, second and third place in the same competition category, but students from El Camino Real Charter School did just that! Six yearbook...
View ArticleYearbook advisers from Ben Franklin High, Snohomish High win mini fridges at...
After more than 160 entries flowed in over the course of the past two days, two yearbook advisers won fully stocked mini fridges for their yearbook staffs during Friday afternoon’s prize drawing in the...
View ArticleYearbook Chat with Jim: Live from Chicago!
Thousands of scholastic journalism students are attending the JEA/NSPA Scholastic Journalism Convention in Chicago, and Yearbook Chat with Jim is bringing you a taste of the activity! Recorded live at...
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