Today marks National Teacher Day, and next week is Teacher Appreciation Week, a week to celebrate teachers who make a difference and show our appreciation. We hope you will join us by sharing pictures on social media and tagging us with how you are honoring the teachers at your school using the hashtags #Walsworth and #ThankATeacher. If you’re looking for …
We challenged schools to share the moments that captured this school year, and you took the challenge and ran with it for the 2023 Photo Contest. The images were striking, displayed technical mastery and evoked emotion. They captured the spirit of 2023, and we are thrilled to announce the winners of the 2023 Walsworth Photo Contest. It was one of …
The JEA/NSPA Spring Convention in San Francisco featured many speakers, workshops activities and people that make the event a student journalist favorite every year. But perhaps the most exciting part of the spring convention is the announcement of the Pacemaker winners. Six Walsworth schools received the coveted NSPA Pacemaker award. Congratulations to the six Walsworth-printed 2022 yearbooks that were named …
Congratulations to the yearbooks who placed in NSPA’s 2023 Spring Best of Show at the JEA/NSPA National High School Journalism Convention! Thirteen Walsworth yearbook staffs were recognized across four categories. Congratulations to everyone who placed! Yearbook, 32-252 pages Third place: The Bard, Hill Country Christian School of Austin, Austin, Texas – a new customer for 2023! Seventh place: The Clipper, …
Cory Bentley, the science teacher and yearbook adviser at Trinity Middle School in Archdale, North Carolina, was advising his eleventh yearbook when he passed away unexpectedly after a brief illness on March 9, 2023. The sudden death of the 36-year-old husband and father of two young children came as an incredible shock to his students, both current and former, his …
About the Award On Friday, April 14, Sabrina Schmitz, CJE, Walsworth key accounts specialist, yearbook sales representative and former adviser, received the FSPA Gold Medallion Award. According to the FSPA website, “The Gold Medallion, FSPA’s highest honor, honors service to the organization and to scholastic journalism. Previous recipients and FSPA executive board members select nominees and previous recipients vote to …
Students at Walsworth Yearbooks schools won first place in 13 of the 38 awarded scholastic yearbook categories when Columbia Scholastic Press Association announced the 2023 winners of its annual Gold Circle Awards Saturday. CSPA Gold Circles honor outstanding work by student journalists in both print and online media. They compete within 39 different categories (one of which did not have awards …
On an overcast and foggy day in Topeka, Kansas, a group of students and educators from Shawnee Mission East, Shawnee Mission North and Shawnee Mission Northwest high schools gathered in front of state legislators. Kansas State House Representative Jo Ella Hoye recognized their yearbooks as each being in the elite group of top 10 most awarded publications by the National …
As we enter the fourth week of March, we’re excited to bring you the President’s Collection, Part 4! In this post, we share highlights from the yearbooks of Colonial Forge High School, Rock Ridge High School, Blue Valley Northwest High School, Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts, University High School, El Dorado High School and Lexington High School. Yearbook …
It’s not luck but rather hard work and talent that earned five Walsworth schools a Columbia Scholastic Press Association Gold Crown on St. Patrick’s Day. Congratulations to all the Crown winners! We are proud of our 21 schools who received a CSPA Gold or Silver Crown. The winners were announced at the CSPA Spring Convention in New York City and on a …