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Back-to-Back In the Black Marketing
Yearbooks are an integral part of any school year. However, as one of the only organizations at school whose very existence depends upon sales, keeping your program financially healthy presents a...
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Culture Shift: Adjusting to Changes in the Classroom
Everyone hopes for a year of smooth sailing, with an exceptional staff and an appreciative community. That rarely matches reality. Sometimes a curveball changes the program. It could be planned or hit...
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Snapping Non-Photographers into Photographer Mode
With a phone attached to their hands, most people come in thinking they’re good photojournalists. But I believe there’s another level that we all want students to reach in our publications. Here are...
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Parkland Speaks: Live at CSPA
The benefits of art and writing as a means to process trauma are widely acknowledged, and the survivors of the February 14, 2018, school shooting in Parkland, Florida, have turned that means of therapy...
View ArticleCSPA announces scholastic Crown winners for 2018 yearbooks
Five 2018 yearbooks printed by Walsworth Yearbooks received Gold Crowns from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association (CSPA) Friday, with another 19 2018 Walsworth books earning Silver Crowns. The...
View ArticleAsk Mike: How do I create a podcast?
It’s the time of year when many yearbook staffs are finishing their books. The only problem? There are still months left in the school year! If you’re looking for a journalism skill-building activity...
View ArticleSix Steps to Get Your Podcast Program Up and Running
If you haven’t already, be sure to listen to the excellent season two bonus episode of Ask Mike. In the episode, titled “How Do I Create a Podcast?” Mike Taylor, CJE, and guest Samantha Jo Berry of...
View ArticlePlanning will make distribution day go smoother
Updated by Walsworth Yearbooks All the hard work that your yearbook staff has put into this year’s book – now comes the fun part. For schools that receive their yearbooks in the spring, it’s only a few...
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Yearbook Advisers of Note: Meet Vanessa Martinez
Vanessa Martinez never planned on being a teacher. She was a working, professional multimedia journalist in the El Paso area. But life did lead her into the classroom and she’s now the adviser at El...
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Distribution Parties – Party Like You’re Done with the Yearbook
Yearbook distribution is the most anticipated day for a yearbook staff and an exciting day for the student body. We know this. In my first years of advising, distribution was simply distributing the...
View ArticleTop 10 tips for keeping yearbook seniors busy
Updated by Walsworth Yearbooks Several yearbook staffs all over the country have hit that stage of the school year where they are now finished with the book, but still a few weeks away from the final...
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Behind the Byline with Jessica Rapp
Journalism is a challenging profession, especially when you choose to work in a country other than where you were raised. That’s part of what makes Jessica Rapp so impressive. The writer (and sometimes...
View ArticleYearbook is finished, now what?
Updated by Walsworth Yearbooks Advisers with spring-delivery books often face the challenge of what to do with the staff once the final pages are uploaded. Yes, proofs are still to come, but with...
View ArticleYearbook success is because of you
To say that April is a busy month for us would be a major understatement. Visit one of our printing facilities and you will find our machines running at full speed during every shift to produce...
View ArticleAsk Mike: What sets these yearbooks apart from the crowd?
There are some yearbook staffs who continually impress, year after year. But how do they do it? Mike Taylor, CJE, host of Ask Mike, sat down to find out how. In this podcast episode, he interviewed the...
View ArticleJEA/NSPA Convention returns to Anaheim this week
The 2019 JEA/NSPA Spring National High School Journalism Convention travels to Anaheim and the land of Disney this week, and Walsworth Yearbooks will be there in the middle of the action. The Hilton...
View ArticleAdvisers from Plano High School, Yorba Linda High School win mini fridges in...
After two days of steady traffic through the Walsworth Yearbooks booth, two yearbook advisers were drawn as winners of mini fridges for their yearbook rooms on Friday afternoon at the JEA/NSPA Spring...
View ArticleSix Walsworth Yearbooks schools named NSPA Pacemaker winners at JEA/NSPA in...
Six Walsworth Yearbooks schools were among those chosen as winners of 2018 Yearbook Pacemaker awards from the National Scholastic Press Association (NSPA) during the awards ceremony Saturday at the...
View ArticleShawnee Mission Northwest, Shawnee Mission North and Notre Dame de Sion each...
Ten Walsworth Yearbooks schools placed in the Best of Show contest this past weekend at the JEA/NSPA Spring National High School Journalism Convention in Anaheim, including three who placed first in...
View ArticleAsk Mike: Live from Anaheim
Recorded live at the JEA/NSPA National High School Journalism Convention in Anaheim, California on Friday, April 26, 2019, host Mike Taylor, CJE, asked convention attendees “How has journalism helped...
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