For his latest project, Walsworth's Mike Taylor, CJE, has funneled some of his vast yearbook knowledge into a Back-to-School eBook.
Yearbook can be a difficult class to grade. It’s not always easy to measure, and assigning grades are an area where advisers sometimes struggle. Renee Burke, MJE, of Boone High School in Orlando, explained her methods during a Wednesday morning session at Walsworth’s Adviser Academy. She recommends creating grading packets. This is something that can…
If you’ve never done it before, distribution day can be stressful – but it doesn’t have to be. With all the hard work put into the yearbook, you don’t want anything to go wrong the first time the student population gets a look. If you take anything away from this post, let it be this:…
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…
It’s time to start thinking about your next yearbook. Even though this year’s book is not finished, you need to think about what you can do this spring to ensure a smooth transition from one book to the next and from one staff to the next. While your current staff is busily covering the current…
In the midst of creating this year’s yearbook, it’s hard to look ahead and get motivated to start next year’s book. However, the best yearbook years start well before the first day of school. Early preparation starts with more than just idea generation. In fact, it begins with identifying and training new and returning staff…
Many freshmen walk into high school on the first day without that one class, teacher or group that provides a sense of belonging. Besides creating an amazing yearbook our school can be proud of, my goal as a yearbook adviser has always been to give my students a place to belong in junior high. Another…
It’s easy to feel overwhelmed as a new yearbook adviser, but summer training and workshops can make it possible to start the school year prepared. If you’re a teacher about to dive in to your first year as an adviser, carve out a few days for training (maybe July 10-12) and you’ll feel much better…
Walsworth Yearbooks will continue its monthly webinar series for new advisers when it hosts Yearbook Distribution – Distributing your love letter to the school on Tuesday, March 28, at 4 p.m. Central time. Yearbook Distribution will be co-hosted by Lisa Wallace, yearbook adviser at Fort Worth Country Day School in Fort Worth, Texas, and Mike…
Walsworth Yearbooks will kick off its new monthly webinar series when Journalism Specialist Mike Taylor, CJE, hosts Mirror, mirror on the wall: How to recruit the best yearbook staff of all! on Tuesday, Feb. 21 at 3 p.m., Central time. As you work on wrapping up your 2017 books, it’s time to start looking toward…
The holiday season is here, but you are probably well aware that a little yearbook work needs to be mixed in with all the upcoming festivities and family time. Now is a great time to plan student life coverage for the winter break. Editors need to put into place plans to review spreads and proofs,…
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