When the Journalism Education Association (JEA) announced its 2021 Rising Stars and three Walsworth Yearbooks advisers were on the list, Jim Jordan knew he had to get them on his podcast. He sat down with Laurel Wicke, Joanna Chadwick and Carly Gates to discuss the honor and their burgeoning careers. You can listen to these episodes below, at walsworthyearbooks.com/podcasts, or …
The Journalism Education Association (JEA) announced on Monday that Michael Simons, MJE, the yearbook adviser at Corning-Painted Post High School in Corning, New York, had been named the 2021 Yearbook Adviser of the Year. Walsworth Special Consultant Jim Jordan interviewed Simons in the first season of the Yearbook Chat with Jim podcast. You can listen to that interview below. Two …
The yearbook staff of Shawnee Mission North High School in Overland Park, Kansas, won the overall Blue and Gold Award in Class A when Quill & Scroll announced the results of the 2021 Yearbook Excellence Contest this week. In addition, 17 students from Walsworth Yearbooks schools finished in 1st place in their individual category. Blue and Gold Awards Each year, …
Three Walsworth Yearbooks schools finished in first place 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 lingering COVID-19 pandemic, but NSPA still allowed entries into the Best of Show and announced the winners on Saturday. The three Walsworth Yearbooks schools who placed first in …
This year, we tried something different – hosting a five-day photo contest during National Yearbook Week to crowdsource great photography, see student life through the staffers’ eyes and ultimately pick a photo to use on the cover of our Possibilities volume 9 book. Having never done so before, we didn’t know what to expect. Would people enter? Would they have …
Congratulations to the newly named Rising Stars! Every year, the Journalism Education Association honors teachers who are in their first five years of advising and who have shown a dedication to scholastic journalism. In 2021, JEA named six Rising Stars. Four of those Rising Stars advise journalism programs at Walsworth Yearbooks schools. Joanna Chadwick, Derby High School, Derby, Kansas Carly …
“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 …
Walsworth’s fundamental aim is to create value for customers, employees and communities. What supports all three is our commitment to the environment. We’re continually finding ways to reduce our carbon footprint and build a more environmentally friendly operation. Why is that so important to us? Like many manufacturing processes, printing has historically incorporated and emitted environmental pollutants. Some emissions are …
Nine Walsworth Yearbooks schools placed in the Best of Show contest at the virtual Spring 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. One Walsworth Yearbooks school placed first in its category. Oro from Cactus Canyon …
Eleven Walsworth Yearbooks schools were among those chosen as winners of 2020 Yearbook Pacemaker awards from the National Scholastic Press Association (NSPA) during the online awards ceremony Saturday at the Virtual JEA/NSPA Spring National High School Journalism Convention. The 2020 Yearbook Pacemaker winners printed by Walsworth Yearbooks included: Apollo, Colonial Forge High School – Stafford, Virginia Arena, Legacy High School – Mansfield, …