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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.
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 yearbook colophon to read the specs and… nothing. Many yearbook teams become overwhelmed with the…
2022 was full of unforgettable moments, and your yearbook has a responsibility to record those events. Whether it’s full features or modular packages, it’s vital that your book covers the things that happened both inside and outside your school walls. Your staff might groan at the task of covering current events; however, recording current events…
The yearbook is tasked with the important responsibility of telling the story of the year. As more and more yearbooks choose chronological coverage, it begs the question: how much of the year do we cover? Does the story of the year start when the school doors open and end when they close, or is summer…
The final deadline has passed, and your book has been submitted. Now what? If you have a spring delivery, you might be struggling to find something to do with your staff for the rest of the school year. As a brand-new yearbook adviser, I know I was. Although I’ve taught English for nearly 20 years,…
If you are looking for inspiration, look no further than Possibilities, volume 9. This bi-annual publication has been providing it since 2006. Now the latest volume is hot off the press and sure to generate yearbook excitement and creativity in your staff, and it has more to show than ever before. With over 950 examples…
Maybe weather canceled the only game of the spring sports season you were going to be able to get in the book. Maybe COVID canceled an event you were counting on. Maybe other spreads just took longer than anticipated and the deadline snuck up on you. Whatever the reason and whoever your publisher, if you…
Rethinking Your Yearbook Post-COVID Closing the door on the 2021 school year could not come soon enough for teachers across the country. It was a tough year, but if anyone made lemonade from lemons, it was classroom teachers. There was also good that came from one of the craziest school years ever, and I want…
Editors and staffers can use these guides as a checklist to create marvelous mods and compelling student profiles We all have grand dreams at the beginning of the school year for how amazing our yearbook can be. The goal is to tell great stories, capture amazing images, include every student, create a record of the…
