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The size of your school will only affect the yearbook if you let it – that was the message from David Zinsmeister on Wednesday afternoon during his “Small School – Big Impact” session at Walsworth’s Adviser Academy.
Zinsmeister knows what it is like to produce an award-winning yearbook in a small school. He is adviser of a 160-page yearbook at Manchester High School in North Manchester, Ind., a school of about 400 students.
Chronological yearbooks. Yearbooks with zero to seven sections. Yearbooks with only feature stories and photos.
These were some of the current trends in yearbook mentioned in the Adviser Academy’s Tad of Fad session on Monday afternoon. Led by Susan Massy, adviser at Shawnee Mission Northwest High School in Shawnee, Kan., and David Zinsmeister, adviser at Manchester High School in North Manchester, Ind., the session showed and discussed examples of new and timeless design trends.
Yearbooks are great for taking time to reminisce, but sometimes the passage of time sheds a new light on who we grew up to be. Take Elena Kagan, for example.
Kagan is President Barack Obama’s choice as the next justice of the Supreme Court, to replace retiring justice John Paul Stevens. Kagan attended Hunter College High School, a public school for gifted students in New York City. She was a member of student government, and in her senior yearbook, she wore a judicial-type robe in the group’s photo and used a quote from Justice Felix Frankfurter. A friend said Kagan told people she wanted to be a Supreme Court justice.
The phrase “as American as apple pie” is used to describe something unique to our country. But the phrase also could be changed to “as American as yearbooks.” The yearbook concept started at U.S. schools almost 150 years ago, and has not ventured far from our shores.
Some foreign exchange students who have decided to immerse themselves in life in the United States for a year have also taken on the challenge of working on the yearbook staff at their American school.
Since school will be ending soon, it is time to start cleaning the classroom, checking equipment for repairs and replenishing supplies, even if you are a fall delivery book.
Whether your staff has worked hard this year or is still working hard, an occasional break can make work go faster and smoother.
Many people make your school run, and the backbone of the operation rests with the receptionists, secretaries, administrative assistants and others who handle the administrative jobs of the school.
You might not even realize it, but this week is Administrative Professionals Week. So why not take the time to show your appreciation for their work.
It’s Sunshine Week, and journalists, media groups and citizens are working to highlight the public records laws meant to protect the people’s right to know what their government is doing.
Sunshine Week’s history can be traced to an effort in 2002 by the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors to stop the Florida legislature from creating a [...]
Warmer weather is on the way, and you have either submitted your yearbook, are just over halfway done or somewhere in between. Your staff has done a lot of work, and it may be time for them to take a break. Taking even a few minutes to think about something other than yearbook can help everyone feel refreshed and approach work with a renewed sense of purpose.
Consider these quirky ideas based on national observances designated by different groups. Celebrate, rejuvenate and have some fun in the month of March with these ideas as the basis, or come up with your own.
The last session I attended at convention left me hopeful for the future of yearbook.
Four officials with national scholastic journalism organizations — Linda Putney of JEA, Logan Aimone of NSPA, Edmund Sullivan of CSPA and Vanessa Shelton of Quill and Scroll — agreed that because of its functions as a history book and a reference book, the yearbook should remain viable well into the future. Of course, the big job at hand is to figure out how to help schools increase sales. By the way, Walsworth has ideas for that all over our website!
The huge throng of student journalists who attended the JEA/NSPA keynote on Thursday night got to pocket journalist Nick Clooney’s advice: Be vigilant, be inquisitive, be thorough, be fair, be courageous and be wary of power, even any that you get.
Clooney talked about being open-minded and fair, quoting his grandfather: “It’s not what you don’t know that will hurt you, it’s what you know that ain’t so.”
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