If your students struggle with club coverage, you’re not alone. Most staffs fall into the same patterns every year: line everyone up, grab a quick group photo and move on. It’s easy, it’s familiar and it leaves a lot of storytelling on the table.
We created resources to fix that.
Our new training series, “Club Coverage 101” with Sabrina Cady, CJE, and Jim Jordan gives you short, classroom-ready videos that teach students how to move beyond basic documentation and into real storytelling. Each video is paired with an activity, so your staff isn’t just watching. They’re practicing the skills you need them to use when developing club coverage.
What you can expect
Each video clocks in at just a few minutes, which makes them perfect for class starters, lesson openers or workday transitions. The content is direct, practical and focused on skills students can implement right away for club coverage.
Here’s a quick look at what the series covers:
- The five most common mistakes staffs make with club coverage and how students can correct them
- Three smarter questions that help students uncover the real story of what happened in a club this year
- How to make club photo day more efficient and more usable in your designs.
- Coverage systems used by experienced staffs
- Four story angles students overlook, plus how to help them find human-centered moments
Club coverage only gets better when students stop focusing solely on events and start paying attention to people. This series will help set the foundation for their work with finding the stories that matter.
Why these videos work
You don’t need to prep anything. Just press play and dish out the hands-on activities.
Every video concludes with a built-in pause point where students complete an activity together. These activities force them to apply what they just learned to your actual yearbook:
- Auditing past coverage
- Brainstorming story angles
- Evaluating which clubs matter most to your student body
- Reviewing systems, organization and consistency
- Identifying deeper moments your book hasn’t captured yet
You get an instant mini-lesson, they get guided practice and everybody wins.
Why this matters for your book
Clubs are one of the most overlooked sources of meaningful storytelling. Students join clubs to explore identity, to find community and to be part of something bigger than themselves. If we only show group photos and event summaries, we miss the moments that matter to them.
This series helps your staff:
- Slow down and observe
- Ask better questions
- Build relationships
- Capture human moments
- Cover more clubs more effectively
Your ladder becomes stronger, your content becomes more authentic and your students start thinking like journalists again.
Your next step
Watch the series. Show it during class and do the activities. You’ll see the shift immediately. If you want your club spreads to finally reflect the depth of your student body, this is the simplest way to get there. When your staff learns to look deeper, your coverage improves faster than you think.
Looking to see what Walsworth can do to further enhance your yearbook? Contact us to see the ways we can make a difference.
