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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The National Scholastic Press Association (NSPA) announced Thursday that seven educators have been selected to receive 2019 Pioneer Awards, NSPA’s top individual honor. Among the winners were Joe Humphrey, the yearbook adviser at Walsworth school Hillsborough High School in Tampa, Florida; and Amy Morgan, yearbook adviser at Walsworth school Shawnee Mission West High School in…
It’s National Yearbook Week, aka the best week of the year! If you are a newbie, you might be asking yourself, what in the world is National Yearbook Week? So, let’s start with the back story. In 1987, President Ronald Reagan declared the week of Oct. 4 each year as “National Yearbook Week.” Most holidays…
Submissions from eight Walsworth Yearbooks schools were named Finalists by the National Scholastic Press Association (NSPA) on Monday in its 2019 Design of the Year Contest. Most notably, 10 Finalists were named in the Yearbook Page/Spread and Yearbook Theme Package categories. In both cases, five of those 10 Finalists were from Walsworth Yearbooks schools. The Yearbook…
Yearbook staffs from five Walsworth Yearbooks schools were represented last week when the National Scholastic Press Association (NSPA) announced the Finalists in its 2019 Photo of the Year Contest. In the Sports Reaction Photo category, there were five Walsworth finalists, including Hanna Corny from Palo Alto High School in Palo Alto, California; Aidan McCall from J.W.…
Success takes many shapes and forms. Many of you already have a successful yearbook – it’s a good book that sells. But if you staunchly believe normal is overrated, if your pursuit of excellence is what drives you, if you keep searching for how to infuse the yearbook with your unique school flavor and spice,…
Congratulations are in order for Leland Mallett, CJE, of Legacy High School in Mansfield, Texas. Mallett was one of five journalism educator recipients of the 2019 Journalism Education Association (JEA) Medal of Merit on Thursday. This prestigious award is reserved for “JEA members who have made significant contributions to scholastic journalism,” according to the JEA…
We already know that we have the best yearbook advisers at our schools, but it feels pretty great when the rest of the country recognizes that too. That’s why it was so exciting to hear that six of the 12 Rising Stars Award winners announced today by the Journalism Education Association (JEA) are Walsworth customers!…
We know advisers are dedicated journalism advocates, but they don’t always receive the credit they deserve. That’s why it’s so rewarding to see our advisers recognized publicly – advisers like Karla Sprague, CJE, of Har-Ber High School in Springdale, Arkansas, who was recently named the Arkansas Scholastic Press Association’s (ASPA) Adviser of the Year. ASPA’s…
Ten Walsworth Yearbooks schools placed in the Best of Show contest this past weekend at the JEA/NSPA Spring National High School Journalism Convention in Anaheim, including three who placed first in their category. Le Flambeau of Notre Dame de Sion in Kansas City, Missouri, finished first in the Yearbook 232 or fewer pages category. Hoofbeats from…
Six Walsworth Yearbooks schools were among those chosen as winners of 2018 Yearbook Pacemaker awards from the National Scholastic Press Association (NSPA) during the awards ceremony Saturday at the JEA/NSPA Spring National High School Journalism Convention in Anaheim. The 2018 Yearbook Pacemaker winners printed by Walsworth Yearbooks included: Hauberk, Shawnee Mission East High School, Prairie Village, Kansas…
