Latest Yearbooks Podcast Episodes
Yearbook Adviser of Note: Brit Taylor, Hagerty High School, Oviedo, Florida
Yearbook Chat with Jim - October 27, 2023 14:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsWelcome to another exciting Adviser of Note episode of "Yearbook Chat with Jim." In this episode, Jim Jordan talks with the legendary Brit Taylor, CJE, a star of Florida scholastic journalism with 30 years of experience at Hagerty High School in Oviedo, Florida. Brit is a passionate educator, de...
Susan Massy: Yearbook’s Queen of Storytelling
Yearbook Chat with Jim - June 08, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsIn the world of yearbooks, Susan Massy is a pretty big deal. Her program at Shawnee Mission Northwest High School in Overland Park, Kansas, is NSPA’s most-winning program of their prestigious Pacemaker awards. Susan herself has received the JEA Lifetime Achievement Award, CSPA’s Gold Key, and wa...
Yearbook Staffers Support Each Other at Patricia E. Paetow High School
Ask Mike - April 27, 2023 16:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsWe’re close to the end of the year now, and yearbook editors are preparing to hand over the torch to the next generation. In the latest episode of the Ask Mike podcast, host Mike Taylor chatted with Yvette and Gabbie, soon-to-graduate yearbook editors at Patricia E. Paetow High School in Katy, T...
Ask Mike | Yearbook Staffers Support Each Other at Patricia E. Paetow High School
Ask Mike - April 27, 2023 16:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsWe’re close to the end of the year now, and yearbook editors are preparing to hand over the torch to the next generation. In the latest episode of the Ask Mike podcast, host Mike Taylor chatted with Yvette and Gabbie, soon-to-graduate yearbook editors at Patricia E. Paetow High School in Katy, T...
Yearbook Adviser of Note Jim McCrossen, Blue Valley Northwest High School, Overland Park, Kansas
Yearbook Chat with Jim - April 13, 2023 13:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsJim McCrossen is a mild-mannered yearbook adviser at Blue Valley Northwest High School in Overland Park, Kansas. Behind his gentle demeanor is a person with a wealth of interesting life experiences and a passion for making the world a better place. One way he works to improve the world around hi...
South to Texas with Chisholm Trail High School
Ask Mike - March 23, 2023 20:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsCortney Wood is in her first year of advising yearbook at Chisholm Trail High School in Fort Worth, Texas. She’s new to advising but has experience working on yearbook staffs in high school and college. Copy editor Sydney Hawkins also joined the conversation. In this interview with host Mike Tay...
Ask Mike | South to Texas with Chisholm Trail High School
Ask Mike - March 23, 2023 20:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsCortney Wood is in her first year of advising yearbook at Chisholm Trail High School in Fort Worth, Texas. She’s new to advising but has experience working on yearbook staffs in high school and college. Copy editor Sydney Hawkins also joined the conversation. In this interview with host Mike Tay...
Adviser of Note Tucker Love, Shawnee Mission South High School, Shawnee, Kansas
Yearbook Chat with Jim - February 23, 2023 23:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsIn this episode, Jim chats with Tucker Love, from Shawnee Mission South High School in Shawnee, Kansas. Tucker is in his fifth year of advising the Heritage yearbook, and his staff were recently named NSPA Pacemaker Award finalists.
Ask Mike | North to Minnetonka High School
Ask Mike - February 17, 2023 22:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsAs Anna, Halle and Gabby work to finish their yearbook, they're also preparing for a significant absence. Host Mike Taylor sat down with the three editors from Minnetonka, Minnesota, to discuss their roles in the yearbook team, their interests, and how they fill their time outside of yearbook. T...
North to Minnetonka High School
Ask Mike - February 17, 2023 22:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsAs Anna, Halle and Gabby work to finish their yearbook, they're also preparing for a significant absence. Host Mike Taylor sat down with the three editors from Minnetonka, Minnesota, to discuss their roles in the yearbook team, their interests, and how they fill their time outside of yearbook. T...
NSPA Pioneer April van Buren, Madison East High School, Madison, Wisconsin
Yearbook Chat with Jim - December 22, 2022 16:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsIn this episode, host Jim Jordan chats with April van Buren, from Madison East High School in Madison, Wisconsin. April was named an NSPA Pioneer in 2022, NSPA awards to journalism educators who make substantial contributions to high school journalism programs and scholastic journalism education...
Rising Star Ben Langevin, Oviedo High School, Oviedo, Florida
Yearbook Chat with Jim - October 31, 2022 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsIn this episode, Jim Jordan chats with Ben Langevin, the yearbook adviser at Oviedo High School in Oviedo, Florida. Ben was recently named a JEA Rising Star and his staff published an especially noteworthy yearbook in 2022.
Ask Mike | Onward to Orlando with Boone High School
Ask Mike - October 27, 2022 21:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsIn this episode, taped live from Elite Weekend in Orlando, Mike sits down with the editors of Boone High School to discuss their yearbook.
Onward to Orlando with Boone High School
Ask Mike - October 27, 2022 21:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsIn this episode, taped live from Elite Weekend in Orlando, Mike sits down with the editors of Boone High School to discuss their yearbook.
Mike Goes Down to Florida to Visit Dreyfoos School of the Arts
Ask Mike - October 07, 2022 18:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsIn this episode, Mike chats with Faith Parksinson, Editor-in-chief at A. W .Dreyfoos School of the Arts in West Palm Beach, Florida. Their chat comes fresh off an Elite Weekend they both attended, and Mike and Faith discuss what was learned in the busy three days in Orlando.
Ask Mike | Mike Goes Down to Florida to Visit Dreyfoos School of the Arts
Ask Mike - October 07, 2022 18:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsIn this episode, Mike chats with Faith Parksinson, Editor-in-chief at A. W .Dreyfoos School of the Arts in West Palm Beach, Florida. Their chat comes fresh off an Elite Weekend they both attended, and Mike and Faith discuss what was learned in the busy three days in Orlando.
Ask Mike | Staying in North Carolina with Southern Alamance High School
Ask Mike - September 29, 2022 15:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsThis week, Mike Taylor is in a different part of North Carolina as he continues his interviews from all over the country. In this episode, Mike speaks to Adviser Lynn Bare and the staff of the Southern Alamance High School yearbook. The Southerner’s Editor-in-Chief Noel, Assistant Editor Kinley,...
Staying in North Carolina with Southern Alamance High School
Ask Mike - September 29, 2022 15:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsThis week, Mike Taylor is in a different part of North Carolina as he continues his interviews from all over the country. In this episode, Mike speaks to Adviser Lynn Bare and the staff of the Southern Alamance High School yearbook. The Southerner’s Editor-in-Chief Noel, Assistant Editor Kinley,...
Ask Mike | Heading South to Athens Drive Magnet School
Ask Mike - September 22, 2022 21:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsAsk Mike is traveling the country this season! The last episode was from Maine, and for episode two Mike traveled south to North Carolina to talk to staff members from Athens Drive Magnet School. Co-editors-in-chief Zoe and Greta and Head of Design Nevaeh shared their thoughts on creating a year...
Heading South to Athens Drive Magnet School
Ask Mike - September 22, 2022 21:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsAsk Mike is traveling the country this season! The last episode was from Maine, and for episode two Mike traveled south to North Carolina to talk to staff members from Athens Drive Magnet School. Co-editors-in-chief Zoe and Greta and Head of Design Nevaeh shared their thoughts on creating a year...
Ask Mike | Back to School with Presque Isle High School
Ask Mike - August 25, 2022 08:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsAsk Mike is back! This season, host Mike Taylor will chat with yearbook staffs all over the United States, starting with Presque Isle, Maine, in the far northeast corner of the country. Listen in to hear about the 2023 yearbook plans for Presque Isle High School, ideas for coverage that you can ...
Back to School with Presque Isle High School
Ask Mike - August 25, 2022 08:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsAsk Mike is back! This season, host Mike Taylor will chat with yearbook staffs all over the United States, starting with Presque Isle, Maine, in the far northeast corner of the country. Listen in to hear about the 2023 yearbook plans for Presque Isle High School, ideas for coverage that you can ...
Gary Lundgren - Critiques, Conventions and All Things Yearbook
Yearbook Chat with Jim - August 15, 2022 07:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsWelcome to the sixth season of Yearbook Chat with Jim! In this season premiere, host Jim Jordan chats with Gary Lundgren, from the National Scholastic Press Association, about the state of yearbooks and scholastic journalism.
Adviser of Note Jason Davis, Cactus Canyon Junior High, Apache Junction, Arizona
Yearbook Chat with Jim - May 12, 2022 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsJason Davis has had quite the journey. He grew up in Minnesota, but now lives in Arizona. His first job was as a fry cook in his family's restaurant, then as a professional journalist, and now is a teacher. He had no yearbook experience when he started advising, but how has one of the best middl...
State Student Journalists of the Year: Part 2
Yearbook Chat with Jim - April 14, 2022 13:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsHost Jim Jordan recently discovered that seven of the JEA State Journalists of the Year winners all have yearbook in their resumes AND their schools published their books with Walsworth Yearbooks. He believes strongly that yearbook students are also true scholastic journalists – just as much as ...
State Student Journalists of the Year: Part 1
Yearbook Chat with Jim - April 06, 2022 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsHost Jim Jordan recently discovered that six of the JEA State Journalists of the Year winners all have yearbook in their resumes AND their schools published their books with Walsworth Yearbooks. He believes strongly that yearbook students are also true scholastic journalists – just as much as ne...
Adviser of Note Monica Rodriguez
Yearbook Chat with Jim - March 03, 2022 21:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsMonica Rodriguez – known to her students as M-rod – is the yearbook adviser at Gulliver Preparatory Upper School in Pinecrest, Florida. All of Monica's three staffs – the Reflections literary magazine, the Raider Voice news and and print magazine, and the Raider yearbook – received Crown and Pac...
NSPA Pioneer Leland Mallett, Mansfield Legacy High School, Mansfield, Texas
Yearbook Chat with Jim - January 18, 2022 19:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsWhen NSPA announced the three 2021 recipients of their prestigious Pioneer Award and Jim saw long-time friend Leland Mallett on the list, he knew he wanted Leland to come on the podcast again. In this episode, Jim and Leland chat about what this award means to Leland, how the yearbook world h...
Rising Star Carly Gates, Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts, West Palm Beach, Florida
Yearbook Chat with Jim - December 10, 2021 20:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsWhen JEA announced their 2021 Rising Stars and three Walsworth Yearbooks advisers were on the list, Jim Jordan knew he had to get them on his podcast. His third and final interview was with Carly Gates, from Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts in West Palm Beach, Florida. If you haven't al...
Rising Star Joanna Chadwick, Derby High School, Derby, Kansas
Yearbook Chat with Jim - December 09, 2021 22:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsWhen JEA announced their 2021 Rising Stars and three Walsworth Yearbooks advisers were on the list, Jim Jordan knew he had to get them on his podcast. His second interview was with Joanna Chadwick, the yearbook adviser at Derby High School in Derby, Kansas. If you haven't already, be sure to c...