Once again, hosts Mike Taylor, CJE, and Jim Jordan turned it out with a yearbook webinar. Happy Headlines, Magnificent Mods: Eye-catching Design Elements in Your Yearbook focused on design. Couldn’t make it live? That’s OK – the recording is now available!
The yearbook staff at Oak Forest Academy in Amite, Louisiana, will be finishing their 2022 yearbook on all-new equipment thanks to a $30,000 donation to the program. The donors remained anonymous and are referred to as Secret Santas. Their gift has allowed the journalism program to upgrade to state-of-the art equipment. “When I was told…
The 2021 yearbooks from 24 Walsworth Yearbooks schools were among the high school and middle school books announced as 2021 Pacemaker Finalists by the National Scholastic Press Association Thursday. The following 2021 yearbooks that are Walsworth schools were named as NSPA Pacemaker Finalists: Apollo, Colonial Forge High School, Stafford, Virginia El Corazón, El Camino Real…
The Columbia Scholastic Press Association announced the yearbook Crown Finalists for the 2022 CSPA Crown Awards on Wednesday, and they named 23 Walsworth customers as Finalists. The following 2021 Walsworth yearbooks were among the group of Crown Finalists: Aerie, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Parkland, Florida Apollo, Colonial Forge High School, Stafford, Virginia Ayrie, Liberty…
When the Journalism Education Association (JEA) announced its 2021 Rising Stars and three Walsworth Yearbooks advisers were on the list, Jim Jordan knew he had to get them on his podcast. He sat down with Laurel Wicke, Joanna Chadwick and Carly Gates to discuss the honor and their burgeoning careers. You can listen to these…
The Journalism Education Association (JEA) announced on Monday that Michael Simons, MJE, the yearbook adviser at Corning-Painted Post High School in Corning, New York, had been named the 2021 Yearbook Adviser of the Year. Walsworth Special Consultant Jim Jordan interviewed Simons in the first season of the Yearbook Chat with Jim podcast. You can listen…
The yearbook staff of Shawnee Mission North High School in Overland Park, Kansas, won the overall Blue and Gold Award in Class A when Quill & Scroll announced the results of the 2021 Yearbook Excellence Contest this week. In addition, 17 students from Walsworth Yearbooks schools finished in 1st place in their individual category. Blue…
Three Walsworth Yearbooks schools finished in first place in the Best of Show contest at the virtual Fall JEA/NSPA Spring National High School Journalism Convention held this past weekend. The convention was held virtually due to the lingering COVID-19 pandemic, but NSPA still allowed entries into the Best of Show and announced the winners on Saturday. The three Walsworth Yearbooks…
This year, we tried something different – hosting a five-day photo contest during National Yearbook Week to crowdsource great photography, see student life through the staffers’ eyes and ultimately pick a photo to use on the cover of our Possibilities volume 9 book. Having never done so before, we didn’t know what to expect. Would…
What we’ve all been waiting for is finally here, National Yearbook Week! We want to help you celebrate all the hard work you are doing, and this is the one week a year we’ve set specifically aside to do just that! So, it’s time to take a breath, reflect and appreciate all the great things…
Yearbookers know there’s nothing like seeing your baby, a.k.a. the yearbook, in print for the first time. You poured the best of yourself into that yearbook, and knowing the whole school is going to get to see it – what could be better? Now imagine it’s not just your school seeing your work but thousands…
