This is the time of year when the Walsworth Yearbooks Podcast Network celebrates love in all its forms – especially the love of yearbook! In the latest WYPN episode of Ask Mike, host Mike Taylor, CJE, interviewed four yearbook staffs about why they love yearbook. He spoke to the staffs of Braden River High School…
Updated by Walsworth Yearbooks You’d be surprised how often it happens. You pick up a yearbook, see a cover design you really love, or flip through and eye a font you like, then flip to the back looking for the colophon to read the specs and… nothing. A number of yearbook staffs get overwhelmed with…
Congratulations to Sarah Lerner, CJE, the yearbook adviser at Walsworth customer Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Lerner was named a Special Recognition Adviser on Tuesday when the Columbia Scholastic Press Association (CSPA) announced its 2020 National High School Journalism Teacher of the Year winners. Erinn Harris, journalism teacher and adviser of student…
In October 2019, Har-Ber High School in Springdale, Arkansas, and Meridian High School in Maycomb, Illinois, were selected as the winners of Walsworth Yearbooks’ Level Up contest. The prize package, worth over $3,500, includes a visit by Jim Jordan and Mike Taylor, CJE, to work with their staffs, editors and adviser. In early January, Jordan…
Valentine’s Day is coming up soon. This year Feb. 14 falls on a Friday. If you’ve been aware of Walsworth Yearbooks for a while, you may have noticed that we love Valentine’s Day. Wait, no. We luuuuurrrve Valentine’s Day. It’s not because of any desire for red roses or to end up in a sugar-induced…
Some of the work being done by middle school and junior high yearbook staffs is absolutely amazing. Ask Mike host Mike Taylor, CJE, sat down with two middle school yearbook staffs to discuss what they’re doing right, what they’re working on and what will happen when they move on to high school. Carl Albert Middle…
Students from Walsworth Yearbooks schools won 12 of the 36 Sweepstakes prizes in the 2019 Yearbook Excellence Contest, when the results of the annual contest were announced earlier this month by Quill and Scroll. Sweepstakes winners The yearbook staff from Calvary Day School in Savannah, Georgia, was the biggest winner with six Sweepstakes winners in Class B, which…
Walsworth is proud to work with so many talented, dedicated yearbook advisers. It makes us especially happy when they receive recognition from other organizations. This year, six of our yearbook advisers were named JEA Rising Stars. Jim Jordan, host of Yearbook Chat with Jim and the 1996 JEA Yearbook Adviser of the Year, interviewed each…
For many teachers, summer is a time to rest, reflect and recharge for the upcoming school year. For yearbook advisers, there’s typically less time to rest and plenty of time working to get the new staff organized. For Courtney Hanks, MJE, yearbook adviser at University High School in Orange City, Florida, the past two summers…
Darren Thomas has been teaching for years, but never advised a yearbook until the 2019 school year. As a new teacher at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita, California, he was looking for a way to feel more connected to his new school. He leaned on his editors that first year, and the staff created…
