Yearbook advisers last an average of three years on the job, but Jim Jordan is retiring at the end of this school year with more than 10 times that tenure. He has been a yearbook adviser at Del Campo High School in Fair Oaks, California for 35 years. Under his leadership the Decamhian yearbook has…
Principal Brianna Kleinschmidt offers advice to administrators on how they can support their yearbook advisers. If you’re a first-year adviser, check out Kleinschmidt’s advice to you here. It was a quick rise to the top for Brianna Kleinschmidt. She moved from yearbook adviser to principal in just a few years. “I definitely didn’t set out…
Many thanks to Jessica Young, MJE, the yearbook adviser at Orange Glen High School in Escondido, California, for sharing this wonderful story reinforcing just how valuable yearbooks can be. Young was recently contacted via Facebook by someone looking to track down a decade-old Orange Glen yearbook. Anybody who has worked on a yearbook staff knows,…
A writing assignment for an AP Literature class turned into a heartfelt essay about the meaning of yearbook. Emily Fogleman spent three years on the yearbook staff at Southern Alamance High School in Graham, North Carolina, serving as editor-in-chief in 2016, her senior year. Last spring, her AP Literature class was assigned to write an…
All-inclusive coverage, where every student in a school is mentioned in the yearbook, is a common goal for yearbook staffs. But imagine a school of more than 1,200 students where nearly half the student body works for the yearbook staff. That’s the reality for Creekside Middle School in Carmel, Indiana, and Scott Chelli, yearbook adviser.…
Yearbook 3D, the free augmented reality mobile app exclusively from Walsworth, is changing the way people look at yearbooks. Yearbook staffs, students and news media are all watching in amazement as Yearbook 3D brings their yearbook to life.
If you were a visitor to Steven Jay Thor’s yearbook room over the course of his career as a yearbook adviser, chances are you probably remembered it. And remembered him. Whether it was the life-sized posters adorning the walls, or the souvenir Thor’s hammer given to him as a gift by his students, when you…
Growing up, Renee Burke was always teaching or being a role model for her two younger sisters. While in college she was a swimming instructor for kids and adults, taught reading at an adult literacy program and worked at a Title 1 Extended Day program. Burke, a 2015 JEA Distinguished Adviser, knew she wanted to…
A passion for storytelling combined with a love of learning led Emily Arnold, CJE, on a roundabout path to become the yearbook adviser at Haltom High School in Haltom City, Texas, and a 2015 JEA Rising Star award winner.
Allie Staub not only embraces change, she initiates it. Staub made changes in the yearbook program at Westfield Middle School in Westfield, Ind., which led to a national award-winning yearbook and to her receiving a 2015 JEA Rising Star award.
