Latest Yearbooks Podcast Episodes
Rising Star Laurel Wicke, Drake Middle School, Arvada, Colorado
Yearbook Chat with Jim - December 08, 2021 17:00 - 39 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 first interview was with Laurel Wicke, the yearbook adviser at Drake Middle School in Arvada, Colorado. Stay tuned this week for interviews...
Adviser of Note Karen Johnson, Kearney High School, Kearney, Missouri
Yearbook Chat with Jim - October 07, 2021 20:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsKaren Johnson, MJE, always knew she wanted to be a teacher and a coach. When she started college, she realized that social studies (which often seems to go hand-in-hand with coaching) wasn't really for her. It wasn't long before she switched to English, then added a journalism minor. Since then,...
Bobby Hawthorne and the Writing Process
Yearbook Chat with Jim - August 12, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsBobby Hawthorne is a master storyteller and journalist. He's well known in the scholastic journalism world, and can frequently be found teaching at journalism workshops and seminars. In this episode, Hawthorne and your host, Jim Jordan, share what it takes to be a good journalist and tell a grea...
What Happens when Five of NSPA’s Top 10 Pacemaker Winners Sit Down to Talk?
Ask Mike - June 10, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratings“Every book that has ever been done at Northwest, if you’ll go look at it you’ll find the fingerprints, the thumbprints, of everyone on this podcast,” yearbook adviser Susan Massy shared early on in the latest episode of the Ask Mike podcast, explaining the importance of having a yearbook family...
Ask Mike | What Happens when Five of NSPA’s Top 10 Pacemaker Winners Sit Down to Talk?
Ask Mike - June 10, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratings“Every book that has ever been done at Northwest, if you’ll go look at it you’ll find the fingerprints, the thumbprints, of everyone on this podcast,” yearbook adviser Susan Massy shared early on in the latest episode of the Ask Mike podcast, explaining the importance of having a yearbook family...
What Happens when Five of NSPA’s Top 10 Pacemaker Winners Sit Down to Talk?
Ask Mike - June 10, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratings“Every book that has ever been done at Northwest, if you’ll go look at it you’ll find the fingerprints, the thumbprints, of everyone on this podcast,” yearbook adviser Susan Massy shared early on in the latest episode of the Ask Mike podcast, explaining the importance of having a yearbook family...
Yearbook Adviser of Note Liz Luna, Athens Drive High School, Raleigh, North Carolina
Yearbook Chat with Jim - May 27, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsElizabeth Luna sort of happened into graphic design, then wanted more, and now she's the yearbook adviser at a school that just won its first Pacemaker. She shared their journey over the last several years, and what it's like being the adviser of a small yearbook program. You can read more ab...
Adviser of Note Ronna Sparks Woodward, Liberty North High School, Liberty, Missouri
Yearbook Chat with Jim - April 29, 2021 19:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsHere it is! The official 50th episode! And what a great person to interview. 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 has turned her passion for a yearboo...
Our 50th Episode
Yearbook Chat with Jim - April 29, 2021 16:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsIt's our 50th episode! Today, we're sharing a mini-episode to reflect on where this podcast has taken us since we launched in 2018. Thank you to everyone who has been on this podcast journey with Jim and the Walsworth Yearbooks Podcast Network.
Interview With Park Trails Elementary Yearbook Advisor Deanna Russo
Yearbooks Live - March 31, 2021 14:51 - 16 minutesIn this podcast we interview Park Trails Elementary Yearbook Advisor Deanna Russo. In this challenging year, Deanna has some fantastic feedback on creating yearbook content, selling yearbooks and more. Deanna answers the following questions: Tell us a little about yourself and how long y...
A Family Affair
Yearbook Chat with Jim - March 19, 2021 14:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsA few weeks ago, host Jim Jordan read two articles on the Walsworth Yearbooks blog about covering controversial topics in a yearbook. Those two articles were written by a father/daughter yearbook team, which sparked the idea for this episode. Jim Jordan was a yearbook adviser for 35 years, and...
How Can I Promote Myself?
Ask Mike - March 12, 2021 22:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsIn this extra special episode, Ask Mike and Yearbook Chat with Jim team up to talk about promoting your yearbook! Hosts Mike Taylor, CJE, and Jim Jordan are joined by three members of the Walsworth marketing team, Jenica Hallman, CJE, Jimmy Gilligan and Sarah Scott. They share tips for writing p...
How Can I Promote Myself?
Ask Mike - March 12, 2021 22:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsIn this extra special episode, Ask Mike and Yearbook Chat with Jim team up to talk about promoting your yearbook! Hosts Mike Taylor, CJE, and Jim Jordan are joined by three members of the Walsworth marketing team, Jenica Hallman, CJE, Jimmy Gilligan and Sarah Scott. They share tips for writing p...
Promote Yourself and Your Yearbook
Yearbook Chat with Jim - March 12, 2021 22:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsIn this extra special episode, Ask Mike and Yearbook Chat with Jim team up to talk about promoting your yearbook! Hosts Mike Taylor, CJE, and Jim Jordan are joined by three members of the Walsworth marketing team, Jenica Hallman, CJE, Jimmy Gilligan and Sarah Scott. They share tips for writing p...
Ask Mike | How Can I Promote Myself?
Ask Mike - March 12, 2021 22:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsIn this extra special episode, Ask Mike and Yearbook Chat with Jim team up to talk about promoting your yearbook! Hosts Mike Taylor, CJE, and Jim Jordan are joined by three members of the Walsworth marketing team, Jenica Hallman, CJE, Jimmy Gilligan and Sarah Scott. They share tips for writing p...
Yearbooks- State of the Industry
Yearbooks Live - February 28, 2021 18:56 - 6 minutesWelcome to YearbooksLive, the podcast that teaches you everything you need to know about yearbooks with your podcast for the real-world. I’m you host, your teacher and coach coming to you from sunny South Florida. In today’s episode we are going to talk about the state of the yearbook and phot...
How Do I Make a Diverse, Inclusive Yearbook?
Ask Mike - February 25, 2021 22:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsIn honor of Scholastic Journalism Week and the importance of diversity and inclusion in scholastic journalism, host Mike Taylor, CJE, has a very special episode today! Listen in to hear Mike talk with June Straight, from El Paso, Texas, and Dennis Wade, from Ohio, about diversity and inclusion. ...
Ask Mike | How Do I Make a Diverse, Inclusive Yearbook?
Ask Mike - February 25, 2021 22:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsIn honor of Scholastic Journalism Week and the importance of diversity and inclusion in scholastic journalism, host Mike Taylor, CJE, has a very special episode today! Listen in to hear Mike talk with June Straight, from El Paso, Texas, and Dennis Wade, from Ohio, about diversity and inclusion. ...
How Do I Make a Diverse, Inclusive Yearbook?
Ask Mike - February 25, 2021 22:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsIn honor of Scholastic Journalism Week and the importance of diversity and inclusion in scholastic journalism, host Mike Taylor, CJE, has a very special episode today! Listen in to hear Mike talk with June Straight, from El Paso, Texas, and Dennis Wade, from Ohio, about diversity and inclusion. ...
JEA Special Recognition Adviser Tiffany Kopcak, Colonial Forge High School, Stafford, Virginia
Yearbook Chat with Jim - February 18, 2021 22:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsTiffany Kopcak was recently named JEA's H.L. Hall Yearbook Adviser of the Year Special Recognition Adviser. Her staff's 2020 yearbook was one of host Jim Jordan's favorite volumes, and they're known for their willingness to go in new directions for coverage and design. Listen in to hear more abo...
Rising Star Patty Gomez, Pine Crest School, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Yearbook Chat with Jim - January 28, 2021 15:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsPatty Gomez has led an interesting life, and it's given her a unique perspective on education. She is the yearbook adviser at Pine Crest School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and was recently named a JEA Rising Star for her commitment to scholastic journalism. In this interview, Patty shares a lit...
Rising Star Heather Rice, One School of the Arts, Longwood, Florida
Yearbook Chat with Jim - January 18, 2021 19:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsFor the first episode of 2021, host Jim Jordan interviews JEA Rising Star Heather Rice, from One School of the Arts in Longwood, Florida. Rising Star trophies are awarded to advisers who are in their first five years of advising and have shown great dedication to scholastic journalism. Heather t...
Covid19 and 101 Yearbook Content Ideas
Yearbooks Live - January 14, 2021 17:55 - 6 minutesIn today’s episode we are going to talk once more about what to include in your yearbook when you may not have students in the school or maybe you’re in school but there’s no photographer or school related events. I’m going to point you to 101 ideas you can include in your yearbook. Yes, your...
How Do I Take My Yearbook Above and Beyond in 2021?
Ask Mike - December 31, 2020 22:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsHow did are they doing it? All over the country, yearbook staffs are stepping up and making amazing yearbooks in the middle of a pandemic that has displaced almost everything about the school year. The yearbook program at Indian Trail High School in Kenosha, Wisconsin, is one of those who is mak...
Ask Mike | How Do I Take My Yearbook Above and Beyond in 2021?
Ask Mike - December 31, 2020 22:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsHow did are they doing it? All over the country, yearbook staffs are stepping up and making amazing yearbooks in the middle of a pandemic that has displaced almost everything about the school year. The yearbook program at Indian Trail High School in Kenosha, Wisconsin, is one of those who is mak...
How Do I Take My Yearbook Above and Beyond in 2021?
Ask Mike - December 31, 2020 22:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsHow did are they doing it? All over the country, yearbook staffs are stepping up and making amazing yearbooks in the middle of a pandemic that has displaced almost everything about the school year. The yearbook program at Indian Trail High School in Kenosha, Wisconsin, is one of those who is mak...
Creating Your Yearbook in the Time of Covid
Yearbooks Live - December 17, 2020 21:58 - 12 minutesIn today’s episode we are going to talk about what options are available if you have no school photographer this year, what a distance learning yearbook can look like, reaching out to parents to sell the yearbook, what to do if you don’t have the time or energy to put a yearbook together and sho...
Adviser of Note Emily Arnold, Aledo High School, Aledo, Texas
Yearbook Chat with Jim - November 12, 2020 16:17 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsIn this episode, host Jim Jordan chats with November 2020 Adviser of Note Emily Arnold. Listen to her story about how she built two different award-winning publications programs and how she is coping with in-person teaching and advising this year.
Ask Mike | How Do I Make a Yearbook During COVID-19?
Ask Mike - November 05, 2020 16:52 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsIn this episode, host Mike Taylor speaks with two schools in the northeast part of the country, one from New Hampshire and one from Pennsylvania. The adviser and Editor-in-chief from St, Thomas Aquinas in Dover, New Hampshire, share how they're using this opportunity to make a yearbook different...
How Do I Make a Yearbook During COVID-19?
Ask Mike - November 05, 2020 16:52 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsIn this episode, host Mike Taylor speaks with two schools in the northeast part of the country, one from New Hampshire and one from Pennsylvania. The adviser and Editor-in-chief from St, Thomas Aquinas in Dover, New Hampshire, share how they're using this opportunity to make a yearbook different...