Hello I’m Jeff Wood Walsworth Yearbooks Representative Instagram Envelope Phone My Story As a national and perennial award-winning yearbook rep, I love to work very closely with yearbook advisers and editors to make their job easier, more enjoyable and more engaging. I bring a passion for yearbook as an educational vehicle, along with proactive and creative solutions to solve any …
If you’ve been involved in journalism advising for any amount of time, especially competitive yearbook, you’ve likely heard of the five Shawnee Mission schools. Shawnee Mission East, Shawnee Mission North, Shawnee Mission Northwest, Shawnee Mission South and Shawnee Mission West high schools have stand out students taught by stand out advisers. But despite the fact that one school is …
Putting together a yearbook is stressful. To help your staff get to know each other and work as a team, use ice breakers, team builders and get-to-know-you activities. These games are not in any particular order; simply pick and choose the activities that suit your goal for the day. Tweak these games to fit your students, school and environment. Many …
Once again, hosts Mike Taylor, CJE, and Jim Jordan turned it out with a yearbook webinar. Happy Headlines, Magnificent Mods: Eye-catching Design Elements in Your Yearbook focused on design. Couldn’t make it to our live webinar on Dec. 12? That’s OK – the recording is available on-demand at walsworthyearbooks.com/webinars. Who should watch this webinar? Anyone who wants to draw readers …
Editors and staffers can use these guides as a checklist to create marvelous mods and compelling student profiles We all have grand dreams at the beginning of the school year for how amazing our yearbook can be. The goal is to tell great stories, capture amazing images, include every student, create a record of the year that students will love …
Ronna Sparks-Woodward loves yearbooks. She knew while she was still in high school that she wanted to be a teacher, and specifically that she wanted to be a yearbook adviser. She turned her passion for a yearbooks into a career, and clearly loves what she does. In addition to this blog post, you can hear her podcast interview on “Yearbook Chat …
We’re excited for you to meet our September 2020 Adviser of Note: Susan McNulty, CJE, the award-winning yearbook adviser from J.W. Mitchell High School in Trinity, Florida. At Walsworth’s Virtual Summer Workshop, McNulty held a session on getting your virtual classroom set up for this fall. You can watch “Remote Start to the Year: Building Your Virtual Classroom” on our …
Taking a chronological content approach might be the best way to make sense of this unprecedented year. The sequence of content distribution requires deciding how to organize pages in a way that hooks the reader into the story, keeps their attention with an interesting and logical flow of information and doesn’t block signature submission. Here’s what you need to know. …
Editor’s Note: The following is a sneak peek at a fall 2020 Idea File magazine feature. It was too good to make you wait until the fall, so we are sharing this now. See it and more great content in the fall issue. Planning your yearbook coverage is a whole new ball game this year. Previous years may have allowed …
Kathy Daneman has been a publicist for more than two decades. So… what exactly does a publicist do? “What I do is work with authors to get their books covered,” she explained. “To get book reviews, to get interviews, to place original essays, to get them on tv, to get radio interviews, to go on tour. And I help them …