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These resources will help you guide your staff toward deeper, more intentional club coverage. Each short video breaks down a key skill or concept, then pairs it with a quick, ready-to-use classroom activity that gets students thinking like journalists. This series gives you simple, practical tools to elevate your book without adding stress to your workload.
Club Coverage 101
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What You'll Learn
- How to avoid the common mistakes that limit meaningful club storytelling.
- How to ask smarter questions that uncover what actually happened in clubs.
- How to plan and execute a clean, consistent and design-friendly club photo day.
- How to use beats, tracking tools and regular check-ins to strengthen coverage all year.
- How to find deeper story angles that highlight real student experiences, emotions and moments.
“It takes me four 30-minute homeroom blocks across four weeks to photograph 57 clubs and organizations. I finally nailed the system this year by spreading out the eight largest groups across the weeks and organizing the other clubs in size order/loose category groups.
They sit for the photo and my students use their 1-to-1 iPads to capture the names typed by the student themselves in sitting row order (and separated out by row in Google docs) with seven staffers per side. I run two different sides of bleachers so one is getting staged/photographed while the next is writing their names. They flip flop back and forth! It’s an amazing system that only took four years to perfect.”
Savannah Miller, Yearbook Adviser
Monteverde Academy, Monteverde, Florida
“Our rep, Jill Chittum, added our student data under a tab and made a formula so that when kiddos brought their ID’s, we just simply scanned them in order of how they lined up in the photo. We added every group that signed up so that we could differentiate between groups easily. We also handed our Row cards so that importing into Yearbook 360 matched. Super easy!”
Jessica Croshaw, Yearbook Adviser
Northwest High School, Justin, Texas
Jim Jordan
Jim Jordan is the former yearbook adviser at Del Campo High School in Fair Oaks, California, and now a special consultant for Walsworth Yearbooks. He was a yearbook adviser for 35 years, and over the years the Decamhian yearbook earned numerous Pacemaker and CSPA Gold Crown honors. The Decamhian was recognized in 2022 as having earned the second-highest number of Pacemakers in NSPA’s 100 year history. Jordan was the 1996 JEA Yearbook Adviser of the Year, and has received CSPA Gold Key, NSPA Pioneer, JEA Medal of Merit and JEA Lifetime Achievement awards. He received the Linda S. Puntney Teacher Inspiration Award in 2021. He now shares his expertise with students and advisers at workshops and conventions across the country and leads mentorship through the Adviser Mentor Program. He was among the first to embrace desktop technology in the 1980s and apply it to yearbook, and he remains an innovator in the yearbook industry. Be sure to check out his yearbook-focused podcast, Yearbook Chat with Jim that highlights the stories of great yearbook advisers from around the country.
Sabrina Cady
Sabrina Cady, CJE, is a Walsworth Yearbooks representative, key accounts specialist and the former publications adviser at J.W. Mitchell High School in Trinity, Florida. Under her leadership, The Stampede yearbook earned multiple CSPA Crowns, an NSPA Pacemaker, and was a Design of the Year Finalist. She was Teacher of the Year in 2013, a District Teacher of the Year Finalist, and teaches at workshops and conventions nationwide.
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