The holidays are approaching, which at most schools means two weeks off from school. The anticipation is overwhelming – so overwhelming that it can be hard to keep your staff on task to make those December deadlines. So how do you do it? Many yearbook advisers use a mixture of work and fun to keep students focused.
Walsworth has new adviser tools to make your first year a success Imagine being a teacher entering your first year on one of the most demanding jobs in the school, and before it ever gets started, the world is stricken by a global pandemic that fundamentally changes your entire school. The anxiousness, the nervousness, the growing pains – all those …
Increasing our resiliency was the only choice we had, right? Being resilient may not have been exactly what was on our minds this past year; just making it through each day was all we could ask. Teaching during COVID pushed teachers and administrators beyond their limits. As the world tried to figure out how to deal with the crisis, it …
I’m the worst teambuilder. No, really. I talk to the coaches to find out their tips and tricks, I watch other advisers and ask for advice, I LOVE game day Fridays, but I don’t do the teambuilding thing. I don’t mean to be so one-track minded, but the yearbook is always on deadline, and it’s got to get done, and …
Updated by Walsworth Yearbooks Grading the yearbook is difficult and often leads to more questions than answers when designing a curriculum to meet your school policy. Without traditional assignments and exams, the bulk of the grades focus on the deadlines leading up to the finished product of your yearbook. This can be achieved by dividing assignments into four categories: weekly, …
School gets back in session sometime between August 1 and Labor Day. As we get back to our classrooms and our staffs are back in school full time, consider putting these systems in place to get you and your staff off to the strongest possible start for the 2022 year. 1. System of Communication In my 40 years of advising …
The previous school year required more adapting than ever before for schools across the nation, and completing a yearbook during this period seemed daunting, to say the least. Yet many yearbook staffs not only succeeded in producing their book, but they thrived with sales while embracing new programs and marketing tactics. “In the beginning of the year, we made an …
Your Walsworth Yearbooks Sales Representative has identified you as a first or second year adviser who would like to have an experienced adviser as a mentor. Welcome to your first or second year as a yearbook adviser. We at Walsworth Yearbooks want to help you be as successful as possible and can provide you the expertise of an experienced mentor. The …
“[My staff and I] never put the awards at the forefront,” yearbook adviser Liz Luna shared with Jim Jordan on the latest episode of Yearbook Chat with Jim, so it wasn’t expected, but still exciting, when the staff learned their 2020 yearbook was an NSPA Pacemaker finalist. Profile Elizabeth Luna Athens Drive High School, Raleigh, North Carolina High school attended? …
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 …