Some laughs and a tear-jerker of a story opened the 2017 Adviser Academy in Kansas City on Monday at the Marriott on the Country Club Plaza.
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How a former Walsworth employee is helping an inner-city yearbook program remain afloat. After about 30 years as a sales rep, Mike Archer wasn’t quite done with yearbook. He retired from Walsworth in 2014, but by fall of 2015 he was back in the business – in a very different capacity. Archer is now a…
In this week’s Cover Spotlight, let’s take a closer look at the cover of the 2017 yearbook from Jack Britt High School in Fayetteville, North Carolina. “defined” is the theme of the 2017 Jack Britt book. The word “school” is defined on the front endsheet and can be seen through the cover since Plexiglas was…
In our first Coverage Spotlight of this year, we’re taking a closer look at the outstanding job the staff at Davie County High School in Mocksville, North Carolina, did in their 2017 yearbook. For more than 60 years, students at Davie County High have been walking the halls and creating memories at the same building…
In this week’s Cover Spotlight, let’s take a closer look at the cover of the 2017 yearbook from Creekside Middle School in Carmel, Indiana. The Creekside staff chose to do an animated Yearbook 3D cover through their own Aurasma channel to go with their 2017 theme, “The Way it Works.” The video that plays once…
Walsworth Yearbooks recently completed a successful first year of its Adviser Mentor Program, and many yearbook advisers are already getting ready for an even better second year. Mary Slater, CJE, Walsworth Yearbooks rep in Illinois, recently held a kickoff dinner for the veteran advisers who will be serving as mentors in her area this year.…
After nine months spent creating a yearbook, the staff at Timber Creek High School in Fort Worth, Texas wasn’t done. Staff members were filmed while reflecting on various aspects of yearbook, then those interviews were edited together to create a powerful video about their recently finished 2017 yearbook. Over the span of 11 minutes, students…
New advisers will pour into Kansas City from all over the country next month, anxious about their first year leading the yearbook and looking for guidance. Many practical skills are taught at Adviser Academy, but that’s not the only reason to attend. Numerous benefits are more difficult to put your finger on, but that doesn’t…
The Cover Spotlights are back! And we’re kicking off this round of exploring unique yearbook cover ideas with a look at the 2017 cover from Health Careers High School in San Antonio, Texas. One of the Health Careers editors was an artist, which led the staff to creating a cover with a hand-drawn sketch of…
The yearbook staff at Twin Rivers High School in Broseley, Missouri, capped off the current school year with a treat – several of them in fact, inside a new addition to their yearbook room. In April at the JEA/NSPA Convention in Seattle, Twin Rivers adviser Sarah Grisham was one of two winners in a drawing…
Here’s a fun video sent to us from the yearbook staff at Riverside Poly High School in Riverside, California. With the 2017 yearbook recently completed, the staff sat down to explain exactly what yearbook has meant to them this year, and during their time in high school. You can watch it below. Videos like this…
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