10 Ways You Can Rediscover the Fun in Yearbook
I’m the worst teambuilder. No, really. I talk to the coaches to find out their tips and tricks, I watch other advisers and ask for advice, I LOVE game day Fridays, but I don’t do the teambuilding...
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Make Your Photography One for the Books
Your pictures tell the story of the year and draw your readers into your book. They can educate, illuminate, entertain and make our world a more beautiful place. Including eye-catching photos will...
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Make Your Yearbook Design One for the Books
As yearbookers, we know the pride you feel when you hold that finished product, but are you effectively conveying your message to the intended beholder – the student body – through your design? Since a...
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Yearbook Advisers of Note: Meet Karen Johnson
Karen Johnson, MJE, always knew she wanted to be a teacher and a coach. When she started college, she realized that social studies (which often seems to go hand-in-hand with coaching) wasn’t really for...
View ArticleMake your Yearbook Writing One for the Books
So you’re ready to make your writing one for the books. Congrats! The fact that you’re reading this blog already means you are taking steps in the “write” direction. In the yearbook world, we know that...
View ArticleNew Edition of Idea File Magazine Now Available
Check your mail because the fall 2021 Idea File magazine is now out and on its way to a mailbox near you. If you just can’t wait another minute, you can view the online version right now! We have three...
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Healthy Resilience: Thriving during difficulty through self-care
Increasing our resiliency was the only choice we had, right? Being resilient may not have been exactly what was on our minds this past year; just making it through each day was all we could ask....
View ArticleIn With the New
Walsworth has new adviser tools to make your first year a success Imagine being a teacher entering your first year on one of the most demanding jobs in the school, and before it ever gets started, the...
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All In: Creating Intentional Diversity in Your Yearbook
I grew up in a small town. I went to a parochial high school. Most of the people I interacted with looked like me. Now I live in a community in the middle of Nebraska. So why am I talking about...
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Possibilities Photo Contest Winners Announced
This year, we tried something different – hosting a five-day photo contest during National Yearbook Week to crowdsource great photography, see student life through the staffers’ eyes and ultimately...
View ArticlePerfect Cover Checklist
We see yearbooks that come in all varieties. The yearbook cover has the biggest impact on your book because let’s face it, people always judge a yearbook by its cover. Follow this checklist to make...
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How to Guides with Jim Jordan
Editors and staffers can use these guides as a checklist to create marvelous mods and compelling student profiles We all have grand dreams at the beginning of the school year for how amazing our...
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Closing the Door on 2021
Rethinking Your Yearbook Post-COVID Closing the door on the 2021 school year could not come soon enough for teachers across the country. It was a tough year, but if anyone made lemonade from lemons, it...
View ArticleWork, fun can keep yearbook students motivated before the holidays
Updated by Walsworth Yearbooks The holidays are approaching, which at most schools comes with approximately two weeks off from school. The anticipation is overwhelming – so overwhelming that it can be...
View ArticleHolidays can be a time to give back for yearbook staffs
Updated by Walsworth Yearbooks One of my favorite memories of advising yearbook has very little to do with the actual production of the yearbook. Instead, it has to do with developing caring young...
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Yearbook staffs showed coverage can continue over the holidays
Updated by Walsworth Yearbooks Holiday breaks are around the corner for schools, which means a time for us all to take some time to relax around with friends and family. However, student life continues...
View ArticlePlan now to keep yearbook work flowing over the holidays
Updated by Walsworth Yearbooks The holiday season is here, but you are probably well aware that a little yearbook work needs to be mixed in with all the upcoming festivities and family time. Now is a...
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Promote your yearbook sales with these holiday memes
Updated by Walsworth Yearbooks The next two months can be some of the busiest of the year for your yearbook staff as you race to get pages done before winter break, while also mixing in valuable time...
View ArticleWalsworth Yearbooks schools take top spot in three of four yearbook...
Three Walsworth Yearbooks schools finished in first place in the Best of Show contest at the virtual Fall JEA/NSPA Spring National High School Journalism Convention held this past weekend. The...
View ArticleYearbook Angels are everywhere
Updated by Walsworth Yearbooks I watched Connor slide a stapled packet of notebook paper across the table to the girls in his art class. One of them picked it up abruptly and flipped it over,...
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