Are you ready to teach yearbook in the 2024 school year? We’re here to help by inviting you to attend the 2023 Adviser Academy! What Is Adviser Academy? Adviser Academy is a three-day workshop that helps advisers learn how to teach yearbook or teach yearbook better. We created this event just for yearbook advisers –…
Walsworth’s Adviser Academy in Kansas City will once again offer three full days of classes for brand new or experienced yearbook advisers this summer, July 7-9. This year’s setting will be the InterContinental Hotel, located on Kansas City’s picturesque Country Club Plaza. The Adviser Academy gives yearbook instructors the opportunity to learn, network with other…
Walsworth’s 2019 Adviser Academy kicked off Monday morning at the Hotel InterContinental in Kansas City with an opening speech by Mike Taylor, CJE. He introduced Walsworth personnel and prepped yearbook advisers for what they’ll learn and experience in the three-day conference. The yearbook advisers in attendance then played a get-to-know-you game. Taylor divided the advisers…
In preparation for the Adviser Academy this year, the Yearbooks Blog will be previewing the annual summer workshop with Inside Look at the Academy – a series of Q&As with the instructors. Katie Straka, the yearbook adviser at Blue Springs High School in Blue Springs, Missouri, just outside of Kansas City, will be one of the…
Once again, in preparation for the Adviser Academy this year, the Yearbooks Blog will be previewing the annual summer workshop with “Inside Look at the Academy” – a series of Q&As with the instructors. Next month, Leland Mallett, CJE, will get the opportunity to teach at Walsworth’s 2019 Adviser Academy when he serves as one…
Walsworth’s Adviser Academy in Kansas City will once again offer three full days of classes for brand new or experienced yearbook advisers, July 8-10. This year’s setting will be the InterContinental Hotel, located on Kansas City’s picturesque Country Club Plaza. The Adviser Academy gives yearbook instructors the opportunity to learn, network with other advisers and…
After a rousing game involving blindfolds, birthdays and putting your trust in strangers, 2018 Adviser Academy attendees sat down Wednesday morning to hear from company president Don Walsworth. He shared two histories: the company history and his own personal story. The company The company was started by Walsworth’s grandfather in 1937. His grandmother was a…
Day two of Walsworth’s Adviser Academy in Kansas City kicked off on Tuesday with a presentation from journalism specialist Mike Taylor, CJE, and yearbook special consultant Jim Jordan, who shared the foundational elements that every great yearbook has in the session, “The Look. The Story. The Words. The Images.” The two experienced yearbookers explained “the…
The 2018 Adviser Academy began on Monday at the Marriott Country Club Plaza in Kansas City. Walsworth journalism specialist Mike Taylor, CJE, kicked off the morning’s opening session with a getting-to-know-you activity for the 100+ advisers in attendance. Advisers wrote down their names and three facts about themselves before folding a paper airplane and throwing…
As Walsworth’s 2018 Adviser Academy approaches this July in Kansas City, the Yearbooks Blog has been getting you ready for the event with a new Inside Look at the Academy through a series of Q&As with the instructors. Karen Johnson remembers when she was a brand new yearbook adviser 13 years ago. It was a bit intimidating.…
