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James Ducat, the yearbook adviser at Walsworth customer school Beaumont High School in Beaumont, Calif., was recently honored as one of 10 regional finalists by the California League of High Schools in its 2011 High School Educator of the Year contest.
After being selected for the honor, Ducat was featured in a nice article by the local newspaper, The Press-Enterprise.
Take a look at this very informative article from The News-Herald, an Ohio newspaper, about the current state of student journalism in public high schools.
The article quotes a new study from Kent State University, which concludes that while journalism has changed with the growth of the internet, the number of students interested in learning about it hasn’t really changed much at all.
Today is the 220th anniversary of the First Amendment taking effect in the United States, guaranteeing such rights as freedom of speech and freedom of the press.
Non-partisan organization 1 for All wanted to celebrate that, which is why today they are holding the “Free to Tweet” scholarship contest, and offering students between the ages of 14 and 22 a chance at 22 $5,000 scholarships.
Astronaut Mark Kelly will be visiting Mesa Verde Elementary School in Tucson, Ariz., today and he will be returning a special memento when he arrives.
Kelly took a copy of last year’s Mesa Verde yearbook with him into space on the final flight of space shuttle Endeavor, which he commanded from May 16 to June 1.
The JEA/NSPA National High School Journalism Convention will be providing yearbook staffs with the ultimate journalism learning experience this week in Minneapolis, and Walsworth will be contributing to that experience with an extensive list of speakers.
Sessions with Walsworth speakers will cover everything from learning how to sell more yearbooks and ads, to writing better copy, to staff management and much more.
Here was an encouraging news item this week from the students at Mississippi State University, who voted to bring back the school’s yearbook in the campus elections.
The MSU yearbook, Reveille, had been discontinued in 2007, but will now go back into production after more than 4,000 students voted to bring it back.
Next week, a 14,900-document collection of items devoted to rock star Bruce Springsteen will be opening at the Monmouth University library in West Long Branch, N.J.
Songbooks, tour programs, magazines, photos, and Springsteen’s old yearbooks from Freehold High School will be a part of the massive collection, most of which had previously been kept in storage at the Asbury Park Public Library.
If you have been on the yearbook staff and been to a workshop or national JEA/NSPA convention in recent years, there’s a decent chance you know Mike Taylor.
This week Walsworth announced that Taylor, a popular and respected yearbook instructor, has joined the company in a Journalism Specialist/Key Accounts role.
Has your yearbook staff thought about turning the halls at school into a spooky haunted house over the next couple weeks?
If not, there might still be time to do so. The staff should have a great time creating the haunted house and it’s a chance to raise some money for yearbook at the same time.
Walsworth just announced the first group of monthly prize winners in The Big Event promotion they are running this school year, working with yearbook staffs to make yearbook signing parties premiere events.
Just what exactly did September winners Wayzata, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Chippewa Valley and Warren High School win? They won a whole lot of valuable materials to be used with promoting their own signing party.
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