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…
Fall 2021
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…
We see yearbooks that come in all varieties. The yearbook cover has the biggest impact on your book because let’s face it, people always judge a yearbook by its cover. Follow this checklist to make sure your yearbook cover is one for the books. Readable and Relatable Make sure your cover is readable and relatable…
I grew up in a small town. I went to a parochial high school. Most of the people I interacted with looked like me. Now I live in a community in the middle of Nebraska. So why am I talking about intentional diversity in publications? My community in Lexington, Nebraska, has a diverse population. In…
Walsworth has new adviser tools to make your first year a success Imagine being a teacher entering your first year on one of the most demanding jobs in the school, and before it ever gets started, the world is stricken by a global pandemic that fundamentally changes your entire school. The anxiousness, the nervousness, the…
Increasing our resiliency was the only choice we had, right? Being resilient may not have been exactly what was on our minds this past year; just making it through each day was all we could ask. Teaching during COVID pushed teachers and administrators beyond their limits. As the world tried to figure out how to…
Check your mail because the fall 2021 Idea File magazine is now out and on its way to a mailbox near you. If you just can’t wait another minute, you can view the online version right now! We have three great feature articles packed with great information. One is focused on resources for first- and…