Planning your yearbook coverage is a whole new ball game this year. Previous years may have allowed you to take last year’s ladder and tweak it for the upcoming year, but some schools are completely reimagining their coverage approach. That may sound scary, but it’s actually a great thing!
Kayanna Pham
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Congratulations to the eight yearbook advisers who received JEA Rising Star honors in 2020. Among those were two Walsworth yearbook advisers. Congratulations to Patty Gomez, of Pine Crest School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and to Heather Rice, CJE, adviser at One School of the Arts in Longwood, Florida. Additional congratulations go to Gary Brady, the…
Yearbook staffs have put in blood, sweat and tears to finish their yearbooks this year, and those books are starting to arrive! However, the important ritual of yearbook signing is still up in the air. We know you don’t want to miss this important tradition, so until students can get together to actually sign each…
We’re all finding our new normal right now. There’s no playbook for how the yearbook should respond to a global pandemic that cancels schools for weeks or even months. This is a time that requires us to make our own playbook, and that’s just what the Lyman High School yearbook staff has done. Like almost…
This year looked different. Schools anticipated being in Nashville to find out if they won the coveted NSPA Pacemaker award for their 2019 yearbook at the spring JEA/NSPA convention. Instead, students and advisers hovered over their screens from home watching a livestream video. The experience may not have been the same, the recognition may not…
Thirteen Walsworth Yearbooks schools placed in the Best of Show contest the National Scholastic Press Association (NSPA) held this spring, originally intended to take place at the JEA/NSPA Spring National High School Journalism Convention in Nashville. The convention was canceled due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, but NSPA still allowed entries into the Best of Show and announced…
Students from Walsworth Yearbooks schools won first place prizes in 17 of the 39 scholastic yearbook categories when the Columbia Scholastic Press Association (CSPA) announced the winners of its annual Gold Circle Awards on Thursday. Each year, the CSPA Gold Circles honor superior work by student journalists in both print and online media. The Lair…
Congratulations to our CSPA Crown winners! The Columbia Scholastic Press Association announced their winners Friday in an online ceremony, after the annual CSPA conference was cancelled due to health concerns stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic. CSPA originally named the Crown Finalists in November. The 2019 Walsworth yearbooks named Gold Crowns were: Aerie, Marjory Stoneman Douglas…
There are times when things happen you could never plan for – this is one of those times. Are you struggling to fill pages reserved for events, sports or academic classes that were delayed or cancelled due to COVID-19 preventative measures? The job of the yearbook is to record the story of the year, and…
The 2019 The Tower yearbook from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California, was named a Silver Crown winner on Friday when the Columbia Scholastic Press Association (CSPA) announced the winners of its 2020 College Crown Awards via an online broadcast. The Tower was one of only five 2019 college yearbooks honored with a Gold…
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…
