We love a good upgrade. Yearbook Help is back with a fresh look, simplistic navigation features and a more aesthetic look. As you and your staff begin your journey towards building your best book yet, Yearbook Help can help you find all the resources you are looking for with ease.  1. Digital Editions With our new digital editions for manuals and catalogs, you can now interact with our PDFs and access the table of contents without hassle. Through our digital editions, users can download individual pages, print and can search the edition for specific information. 2. Instant eBook Access O ..read more

    While the anticipation of what spreads a student gets to work on may fuel their creative juices, when it’s time to work on the yearbook index, that excitement sometimes disappears. You may find your staffers asking, “Do we really need a yearbook index? It’s so much work, and we just want to be done. Can’t we just leave it out?” The answer: of course you need a yearbook index. All great yearbooks have them, and they work hard all year to make their index as accurate as possible. It’s one of the things that sets a great yearbook apart. A yearbook cannot be the reference book it ne ..read more

Have you checked out our latest webinar? Now Trending: Yearbook Trends for 2024 breaks down 15 of the hottest trends in yearbook design. Hosts Mike Taylor, CJE, Jim Jordan and Sabrina Schmitz, CJE, covered typography and design trends in two sessions.  The first yearbook trends video specifically covers trends in typography. The second looks at more general yearbook trends. Be sure to watch both videos for in-depth discussion of 2024 yearbook trends with dozens of professional and yearbook examples. Trends in Typography “If there is anything easy to find out there right now in design tren ..read more

Are you ready to teach yearbook in the 2024 school year? We’re here to help by inviting you to attend the 2023 Adviser Academy!  What Is Adviser Academy?  Adviser Academy is a three-day workshop that helps advisers learn how to teach yearbook or teach yearbook better. We created this event just for yearbook advisers – no students, staff, administrators. It’s taught by current or former yearbook advisers who have been in your shoes. When’s It Happening?  Part 1 is happening June 28 and 29. Part 2 is July 31.  Why did we split it into two parts? We heard feedback from previou ..read more

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 something special to do for your favorite teacher, here are a few ideas of special things you could do next week: Write a handwritten note – This one is meaningful and inexpensive. Tell your teacher why you appreciate them. We promise ..read more

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 most difficult photo contests we’ve ever had to judge. Not only did we have more photographs submitted than ever before – nearly 7,700! – but the quality astounded us. While each photo was impressive in its own right, these are the ones that our j ..read more

We’re close to the end of the year, and yearbook editors are preparing to pass the torch. In the latest episode of the Ask Mike podcast, host Mike Taylor, CJE, chatted with Yvette Garcia and Gabbie Leighton, the soon-to-graduate yearbook editors at Patricia E. Paetow High School in Katy, Texas.  Both editors have been on yearbook staff since seventh grade, and they call each other their best friend. They, along with adviser Sara Gonzales, have helped create a supportive yearbook environment that allows their staff to thrive.  Stress Knowing that both editors place a priority on their ..read more

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 NSPA Pacemakers. These Pacemaker winners include: Fusion, Hagerty High School, Oviedo, Florida Hauberk, Shawnee Mission East High School, Prairie Village, Kansas Horizon,  ..read more

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, Kearney High School, Kearney, Missouri Yearbook, 301-368 pages First place: Brickhouse, Shawnee Mission North High School, Overland Park, Kansas Second place: Heritage, Shawnee Miss ..read more

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 school, as well as the entire Trinity community. What happened next is a remarkable tribute to the man who loved creating yearbooks and loved his students even more. In the shock of Bentley’s passing, one way his staff and former ed ..read more