In my first year of yearbook advising 25 years ago, Mike Taylor made me feel like I was a yearbook genius. He made me feel like I could do anything, and he made me feel good about myself. So many yearbook advisers had similar experiences when meeting Mike. Over the years, Mike became my go-to guy for ideas – a …
We’re close to the end of the year, and yearbook editors are preparing to pass the torch. In the latest episode of the Ask Mike podcast, host Mike Taylor, CJE, chatted with Yvette Garcia and Gabbie Leighton, the soon-to-graduate yearbook editors at Patricia E. Paetow High School in Katy, Texas. Both editors have been on yearbook staff since seventh grade, …
For season five, episode seven, Ask Mike podcast host Mike Taylor, CJE, interviews the Chisholm Trail High School yearbook adviser and copy editor about their 2023 school year and their effective yearbook deadline system. Cortney Wood is in her first year of advising yearbook. She’s new to advising but has experience working on yearbook staffs in high school and college. …
If you’ve been involved with yearbook for more than a couple of years, you’ve probably heard and maybe even met Mike Taylor. Advisers and staff members alike are instantly drawn to Taylor and are proud to call him friend. Now friend has become an official title as Taylor was named one of this year’s JEA Friends of Scholastic Journalism. Taylor, …
Updated by Walsworth Yearbooks One of my favorite memories of advising yearbook has very little to do with the actual production of the yearbook. Instead, it has to do with developing caring young adults. I was determined to teach my students that giving a portion of themselves to the world around them is more important than constantly taking from that …
Rethinking Your Yearbook Post-COVID Closing the door on the 2021 school year could not come soon enough for teachers across the country. It was a tough year, but if anyone made lemonade from lemons, it was classroom teachers. There was also good that came from one of the craziest school years ever, and I want to share some of those …
“Every book that has ever been done at Northwest, if you’ll go look at it, you’ll find the fingerprints, the thumbprints, of everyone on this podcast,” yearbook adviser Susan Massy shared early on in the latest episode of the Ask Mike podcast, explaining the importance of having a yearbook family. Massy is the yearbook adviser at Shawnee Mission Northwest and …
How many new words and phrases have entered your vocabulary since March? Social distancing, mask mandate, virtual learning and now, time to add another phrase to the vocabulary: crowdsourcing. You may ask, “What is this crowdsourcing and why would I need it for the yearbook?” Let me explain. The staff wants to do a spread about virtual school. What is …
Let’s talk about quick reads. First of all, what is a quick read? You may call them another name – sidebar, secondary coverage, mod, even side salad. No matter what they are called, they have an objective; tell a story or give more information about a story in short, digestible bits. Given that the readers of 2020 want their information …
This is the time of year when the Walsworth Yearbooks Podcast Network celebrates love in all its forms – especially the love of yearbook! In the latest WYPN episode of Ask Mike, host Mike Taylor, CJE, interviewed four yearbook staffs about why they love yearbook. He spoke to the staffs of Braden River High School in Bradenton, Florida; Liberty North …
