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On an overcast and foggy day in Topeka, Kansas, a group of students and educators from Shawnee Mission East, Shawnee Mission North and Shawnee Mission Northwest high schools gathered in front of state legislators. Kansas State House Representative Jo Ella Hoye recognized their yearbooks as each being in the elite group of top 10 most…
For season five, episode seven, Ask Mike podcast host Mike Taylor, CJE, interviews the Chisholm Trail High School yearbook adviser and copy editor about their 2023 school year and their effective yearbook deadline system. Cortney Wood is in her first year of advising yearbook. She’s new to advising but has experience working on yearbook staffs…
As we enter the fourth week of March, we’re excited to bring you the President’s Collection, Part 4! In this post, we share highlights from the yearbooks of Colonial Forge High School, Rock Ridge High School, Blue Valley Northwest High School, Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts, University High School, El Dorado High School…
It’s not luck but rather hard work and talent that earned five Walsworth schools a Columbia Scholastic Press Association Gold Crown on St. Patrick’s Day. Congratulations to all the Crown winners! We are proud of our 21 schools who received a CSPA Gold or Silver Crown. The winners were announced at the CSPA Spring Convention in New…
As the month of March continues, we’re continuing to highlight yearbooks in our 2022 President’s Collection. Yearbook experts Mike Taylor, CJE, Jim Jordan and Sabrina Schmitz, CJE, discussed what makes the yearbooks in our 2022 President’s Collect great – and we recorded their conversation. We’ve covered six schools in the 2022 President’s Collection, Part 3. …
Happy March! We’re celebrating the month by highlighting the yearbooks in our 2022 President’s Collection. Yearbook experts Mike Taylor, CJE, Jim Jordan and Sabrina Schmitz, CJE, sat down to talk about each yearbook. Each video focuses on five main areas: concept and theme, coverage, design, writing and editing, and photography. Yearbook staffs can use these…
Pictures are worth a thousand words, but the stories within them are incomplete without captions. Help out your yearbook captions by watching the video “A Simple Approach to Great Captions” and using Walsworth’s caption-writing lesson.
Happy March! We’re celebrating the month by highlighting the yearbooks in our 2022 President’s Collection. Yearbook experts Mike Taylor, CJE, Jim Jordan and Sabrina Schmitz, CJE, sat down to talk about each yearbook. Each video focuses on five main areas: concept and theme, coverage, design, writing and editing, and photography. Yearbook staffs can use these…
The 2023 Walsworth Photo Contest begins today, and we’re excited to see your best photos from this school year! The contest runs until the end of day, Friday, March 31, and the winners will receive a $250 Visa gift card. The 10 categories to compete in are detailed below. Academics – Show us learning in…
February’s Yearbook Adviser of Note is Tucker Love, from Shawnee Mission South High School in Shawnee, Kansas. Tucker is in his fifth year of advising the Heritage yearbook, and his staff were recently named NSPA Pacemaker Award finalists. You can listen to our conversation on Yearbook Chat with Jim at walsworthyearbooks.com/podcasts or wherever you listen.…
