Icebreakers and games help students bond and work together more productively. Games will also reduce stress during deadlines throughout the year. Use the “Teambuilding Through Staff Management” unit of the Yearbook Suite to get your staff working together in harmony quickly. That unit was written by Jessica Young, adviser at Orange Glen High School in Escondido, California, who also wrote
In an effort to provide assistance and make life easier for the hundreds of yearbook advisers across the country working with students to create yearbooks in their schools, Walsworth Yearbooks announced the launch of a new Adviser Mentor Program. Walsworth’s Adviser Mentor Program will match up experienced yearbook advisers (mentors), who have successfully created a yearbook, with new advisers (mentees).
Yearbook distribution days are taking place all over the country this month, and we want to hear your stories and see your pictures! Visit the Walsworth Yearbooks Facebook and Twitter pages (@yearbookforever) to see posts and retweets from schools celebrating their distribution days. Send us your distribution day pics! You can message us on Facebook, tag @yearbookforever on Twitter, or
Has your staff taken the group photos for the yearbook yet? Lining up group photos for all the clubs and organizations in your school is typically no small feat. It requires a plan. Fortunately, we’re here to help with such a plan! Robert Haar, the yearbook adviser at Thousand Oaks High School in Thousand Oaks, California, wrote this post for
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 be a journalism teacher, but
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.
For many high school students, working on the yearbook staff provides the perfect experience to prepare them for college life and beyond.
Despite not going into a field related to journalism and print media, my experience on the yearbook staff, including a year as editor-in-chief, at Sherwood High School in Sandy Spring, Md., has helped me succeed in my career as a software engineer. Just as I would edit and write copy then, now I edit code through code reviews and write using code.
Tom Schloen thinks about the theme his East Rockaway High School yearbook staff developed for the 2013 yearbook, and when he tells you what it is, in light of everything that’s happened over the past six weeks, it’s almost impossible to believe. “Organized chaos,” said Schloen. “That was the theme of this year’s book before all this happened, if you
Do you love yearbooks as much as the yearbook staff at Ashley High School in Wilmington, N.C.?
Ashley yearbook adviser Katie Barsaleau recently attended one of Walsworth’s Show-Me Seminars in Kansas City, and got a kick out of the “I heart YBK” logo that can be seen on Walsworth’s Facebook page and on buttons and stickers the company hands out.
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