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The 2022 President’s Collection Highlight Series Shares What Makes a Yearbook Great – Part 2

Happy March! We’re celebrating the month by highlighting the yearbooks in our 2022 President’s Collection. Yearbook experts Mike Taylor, CJE, Jim Jordan and Sabrina Schmitz, CJE, sat down to talk about each yearbook. Each video focuses on five main areas: concept and theme, coverage, design, writing and editing, and photography. Yearbook staffs can use these videos and the accompanying handouts

March 9, 2023

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The 2022 President’s Collection Webinar Series Shares What Makes a Yearbook Great – Part 1

March 1, 2023

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El Dorado staff wins NSPA Design of the Year for Theme Package

Carolina Arredondo, Romario Gonzalez and Lia Rodriguez from Walsworth Yearbooks school El Dorado High School in El Paso, Texas, were named the winners in the Yearbook Theme Package category of the National Scholastic Press Association (NSPA) Design of the Year Contest when NSPA announced the results this past weekend at the virtual Fall National High School Journalism Convention. While El

November 23, 2020

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End of the Year Yearbook Resources

The year is starting to wind down, but that doesn’t mean your yearbook process stops! We’ve gathered some end-of-the-year resources your yearbook staff can use in March, April, May, June and beyond. Finish the Year Strong From celebrations to training next year’s staff, there’s plenty you can do at the end of the year! We couldn’t put together a list

March 3, 2020

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10 steps to effectively execute theme

You have a theme. You have even created or are working on a cover. You might have worked on theme-related pages that are traditionally found in every yearbook, such as the endsheets, title page, opening, closing and division spreads. Now it’s time to do the storytelling, right? But wait. What about the theme? What about the voice? There are all

November 19, 2019

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Ask Mike: What’s in a Yearbook Theme?

Updated by Delaney Pierce 5/5/2025 Writing strong copy for the whole school year is no easy feat considering themes are typically developed in October. Some schools even work on their themes in the spring of the previous year! It’s a difficult task. At times it may feel like you need a crystal ball to see how the year plays out

May 23, 2019

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Clear eyes, Full imaginations, Can’t lose

How a new adviser, new editors and new outlook made for one of Azle High School’s best yearbooks ever When The Hornet yearbook staff at Azle High School in Azle, Texas, gathered for their very first meeting just one week before the 2017-2018 school year kicked off, there was a lot of uncertainty about how the year would go. At

September 28, 2018

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First things first: Find your theme

Updated by Walsworth Yearbooks 4/28/2025 Finding your theme can be a daunting task. It sets the tone for your school year as a staff and influences every aspect of your yearbook production. With that, there’s a lot of pressure to find the perfect theme. But it doesn’t have to be so daunting. Let’s discuss how to develop a theme in

March 14, 2018

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Your yearbook staff can own their yearbook theme with a project

With the last deadline met and yearbooks not set to ship for another two months, it was time for the staff to think of next year’s theme. But we were not going to simply brainstorm it as a class; each of them was to develop a theme and sell it to the rest of us. That’s where this theme project came in…

August 5, 2010

Theme Development Package

Traditionally, a yearbook’s cover, endsheets, title page, opening, closing and division spreads together form the book’s theme development package. On these theme pages, both the verbal and the visual are important. Recurring motifs-words, graphic elements, and designs-link these pages just as the theme or unifying idea links the sections of the book.

July 16, 2009

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