Fourteen Walsworth Yearbooks schools placed in the Best of Show contest at the virtual Fall JEA/NSPA Spring National High School Journalism Convention held this past weekend. The convention was held virtually due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, but NSPA still allowed entries into the Best of Show and announced the winners on Saturday. Two Walsworth Yearbooks schools placed first in their categories. Munhinotu from Gresham …
Yearbook staffers from Walsworth Yearbooks schools Cactus Canyon Junior High School in Apache Junction, Arizona, and Woodland Junior High School in Fayetteville, Arkansas, appeared in all three categories when the National Scholastic Press Association (NSPA) revealed the Finalists in its 2020 middle school contests earlier this month. In the middle school Photo of the Year contest, six of the 10 …
Submissions from nine Walsworth Yearbooks schools were named Finalists by the National Scholastic Press Association (NSPA) this month in its 2020 Design of the Year Contest. In each of the contest’s categories, 10 finalists were named. In the Yearbook Spread category, six of the finalists were from Walsworth schools. They included: Lilli Haire and Lauren Shore from the Clarion staff at Davie County High School …
Yearbook staffers from Walsworth Yearbooks schools McKinney High School in McKinney, Texas, and Shawnee Mission East High School in Prairie Village, Kansas, were named Finalists by the National Scholastic Press Association (NSPA) in its 2020 Story of the Year Contest earlier this month. Elizabeth Long of the Hauberk staff from Shawnee Mission East was named a finalist in the Feature …
The Lion yearbook staff from McKinney High School in McKinney, Texas, was named a Finalist four times when the National Scholastic Press Association (NSPA) announced the Finalists in its 2020 Photo of the Year Contest earlier this month. McKinney’s Elizabeth Chan led the way by being named a finalist twice, once in the Feature Photo category and once in the Sports …
Yearbook staffs took on the challenge of working from home and created some of the most beautiful and innovative yearbooks we’ve seen. Many became so popular that more were printed to meet the demand. I chatted with four advisers about how they finished their books from home, what they learned from the experience and how those lessons will help them …
National Yearbook Week is finally here! We are extra excited this year about National Yearbook Week! During perhaps the most unpredictable year to date, it’s important appreciate all the hard work you put in. National Yearbook Week is the perfect excuse to do so! Yearbookers are the historians of the school. With virtual learning, hybrid learning, in-school learning or any …
Congratulations to the eight yearbook advisers who received JEA Rising Star honors in 2020. Among those were two Walsworth yearbook advisers. Congratulations to Patty Gomez, of Pine Crest School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and to Heather Rice, CJE, adviser at One School of the Arts in Longwood, Florida. Additional congratulations go to Gary Brady, the former principal at Hillsborough High …
Yearbook staffs have put in blood, sweat and tears to finish their yearbooks this year, and those books are starting to arrive! However, the important ritual of yearbook signing is still up in the air. We know you don’t want to miss this important tradition, so until students can get together to actually sign each other’s yearbooks, we found another …
This year looked different. Schools anticipated being in Nashville to find out if they won the coveted NSPA Pacemaker award for their 2019 yearbook at the spring JEA/NSPA convention. Instead, students and advisers hovered over their screens from home watching a livestream video. The experience may not have been the same, the recognition may not feel the same, but let’s …