For many yearbook staffs, summer break is a time for brainstorming theme and cover ideas at yearbook camp, and staff bonding and training while getting ready for the new school year. But student life doesn’t stop during the summer, which means lots of fun, fascinating stories are going on out there in the world –…
In our first Coverage Spotlight of this year, we’re taking a closer look at the outstanding job the staff at Davie County High School in Mocksville, North Carolina, did in their 2017 yearbook. For more than 60 years, students at Davie County High have been walking the halls and creating memories at the same building…
For their 2017 yearbook, the staff at Timber Creek High School in Fort Worth, Texas, chose the unifying, inclusive theme of “Shine Brighter Together.” That’s why when students received their books earlier this months and began flipping through the People section, they found a portrait of service dog Soldier Campbell mixed in with the freshmen,…
Walsworth Yearbooks announced the publication Wednesday of Our Best Advice: Lessons for New Advisers from the Yearbook Experts – a new eBook filled with valuable tips on a wide-ranging variety of yearbook topics. A free copy of Our Best Advice can be downloaded by visiting walsworthyearbooks.com/our-best-advice-ebook/. Created for new yearbook advisers, but also applicable to…
The holidays are over, and most schools are back in class this week. That means yearbook staffs will be back at work. Sometimes it can be hard to immediately jump back in after a couple weeks off and hit the ground running. But with half the year gone and deadlines approaching for many staffs, there’s…
Covering the annual homecoming football game is standard business for yearbook staffs. Finding a unique, meaningful story from the event becomes the challenge. That won’t be an issue this year for the staff at Walsworth Yearbooks school Fossil Ridge High School in Keller, Texas. On Sept. 9, at halftime of Fossil Ridge’s homecoming game, football…
Heather Rollins and Brandon Lee of the Masterpiece staff from Walsworth Yearbooks school Bak Middle School of the Arts in West Palm Beach, Florida, have been named Finalists by the National Scholastic Press Association (NSPA) in its 2016 Story of the Year contest. Rollins and Lee were named Finalists in the Diversity Story category for…
All-inclusive coverage, where every student in a school is mentioned in the yearbook, is a common goal for yearbook staffs. But imagine a school of more than 1,200 students where nearly half the student body works for the yearbook staff. That’s the reality for Creekside Middle School in Carmel, Indiana, and Scott Chelli, yearbook adviser.…
This Memorial Day holiday weekend symbolizes the unofficial arrival of summer to most people. Many schools have already let out for the year, but the coverage by your yearbook staff doesn’t have to grind to a halt for the next few months. Student life will keep going over the summer, so your yearbook coverage should…
Open up some random photo folders on your computers and look carefully at the pictures saved for your yearbook. Do you notice that many photos are of one person? This is particularly noticeable in certain sports such as golf, tennis and swimming. Having one person in a photograph is great. More than likely, this person…
