The Journalism Education Association (JEA) announced this week that 13 advisers will be receiving 2016 Rising Star Awards. Each year, JEA recognizes advisers with up to five years of experience who show promise as up-and-coming advisers. Nominations for the Rising Star Award can come from scholastic press associations, publishing companies, fellow teachers, students and parents. The recipients of the 2016 …
Eight Walsworth Yearbooks schools placed in the Best of Show contest this past weekend at the JEA/NSPA Fall National High School Journalism Convention in Orlando. Legend from Boone High School in Orlando placed first in the Yearbook 337 or More Pages category. In the same category, Lair from Shawnee Mission Northwest High School in Shawnee, Kansas, placed second; and Hauberk …
If you were a visitor to Steven Jay Thor’s yearbook room over the course of his career as a yearbook adviser, chances are you probably remembered it. And remembered him. Whether it was the life-sized posters adorning the walls, or the souvenir Thor’s hammer given to him as a gift by his students, when you walked into Mr. Thor’s room …
Walsworth’s 2015 Photo Contest was our biggest contest to date and the number of amazing photos we received was absolutely outstanding. Thank you to all the amazing yearbook photographers who entered!
We received more than 3,700 submissions in this year’s contest – that’s a ton of awesome images. Without further ado, congrats to the following winners…
Kansas City, Mo. (April 19, 2010) – Five yearbooks published by Walsworth were chosen winners of 2009 Yearbook Pacemaker awards from the National Scholastic Press Association over the weekend at the JEA/NSPA Spring National High School Journalism Convention in Portland.
Kansas City, Mo. (Dec. 3, 2007) – Mary Kay Downes, adviser at Chantilly High School in Chantilly, Va., has been named the 2007 JEA Yearbook Adviser of the Year.