As the end of summer draws closer and you prepare to return to the classroom, it’s time to start thinking about your yearbook staff! What better way to prep for yearbook than with a boot camp? Yearbook experts Mike Taylor, CJE, Jim Jordan and Sabrina Schmitz, CJE, explained how in the training session How to…
Updated by Walsworth Yearbooks The next two months can be some of the busiest of the year for your yearbook staff as you race to get pages done before winter break, while also mixing in valuable time with family and friends around the holidays. But the holiday season is also the perfect time to get…
Updated by Walsworth Yearbooks One of my favorite memories of advising yearbook has very little to do with the actual production of the yearbook. Instead, it has to do with developing caring young adults. I was determined to teach my students that giving a portion of themselves to the world around them is more important…
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…
Valentine’s Day is coming up soon. This year Feb. 14 falls on a Friday. If you’ve been aware of Walsworth Yearbooks for a while, you may have noticed that we love Valentine’s Day. Wait, no. We luuuuurrrve Valentine’s Day. It’s not because of any desire for red roses or to end up in a sugar-induced…
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,…
Several yearbook staffs all over the country have hit that stage of the school year where they are now finished with the book, but still a few weeks away from the final product being delivered and distribution day. It can be difficult finding things to keep the staff busy, especially seniors who don’t have their eyes on getting ready for next year’s book. But there are definitely productive tasks your seniors can be working on.
Last month at the JEA/NSPA Fall National High School Journalism Convention in Chicago, yearbook adviser Kaitlin Savage from Snohomish High School in Snohomish, Washington, was drawn as a winner of a mini fridge at the Walsworth Yearbooks booth. Now just a few weeks later, the Snohomish staff is enjoying the sweet new addition to their…
Happy Cyber Monday! If you’re a regular around walsworthyearbooks.com, you’ve already ventured over to our Holiday page at walsworthyearbooks.com/holiday-fun and downloaded your Cyber Monday graphics to promote big yearbook sales today. But if not, don’t fret. There are loads of fun materials to use over at walsworthyearbooks.com/holiday-fun and several weeks left to use them. Let’s…
We know yearbook recruiting occurs year round, but with class selection and enrollment around the corner, right now is the most important time of year to focus on developing next year’s program. Check out Walsworth Yearbooks’ Recruiting Yearbook Staffs: Methods to the Madness eBook. It will help you develop an effective, organized recruiting effort for…
