Yearbook Chat with Jim show

Yearbook Chat with Jim

Summary: Behind every yearbook is a great story, and Jim Jordan is exploring those stories. Join Jim as he interviews the people behind the yearbook in Yearbook Chat with Jim, part of the Walsworth Yearbooks Podcast Network (WYPN). From new advisers who just made it through their first year, to long-time yearbook lovers looking at retirement, Yearbook Chat with Jim shows the human side of creating a yearbook.

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 Adviser of Note Emily Arnold, Aledo High School, Aledo, Texas | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 45:51

In 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.

 Making the Best of It During the Global Pandemic | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:34:27

On today’s episode, host Jim Jordan discusses the ways yearbook staffs continue to manage, create and sometimes even thrive in the midst of a pandemic. He spoke with five yearbook advisers from four high schools all over the country to listen to their stories about yearbook during COVID-19. Ashley Dias, El Paso, Texas Susan Colyer, Fort Smith, Arkansas Kaitlin Beaudet and Michelle Kuebler, Williamsville, New York Hillary Currier, Tigard, Oregon

 Adviser of Note Susan McNulty, J.W. Mitchell High School, Trinity, Florida | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:02:05

Susan McNulty became a yearbook adviser early in her career as a teacher, but budget cuts tore her away from the role. Years later, she took over the J.W. Mitchell yearbook program the same year her daughter served as editor-in-chief. She took over a strong yearbook program, and books under her leadership have won recognition from all ovee. In this episode, McNulty discusses her career, her classroom, and the pressure of finishing a yearbook while the world grapples with the coronavirus.

 Adviser of Note Susan Massy, Shawnee Mission Northwest High School, Shawnee, Kansas | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 57:14

Susan Massy has been advising yearbooks for more than 30 years. You can’t have an interview in 2020 without addressing what a crazy year it’s been. Massy and Jordan discuss the ways the impactful year has affected her yearbook. Watching her students juggle all the changes helped Massy identify who would be her leaders for the 2021 school year. As the staff prepares for the 2021 book, they’re having what Massy calls both “freakout moments” and “aha moments.”

 Adviser of Note Michelle Shue – Out of the life raft and on to bridge building (as the new year begins) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 52:36

2020 has been an odd year for everyone. We've all had to learn to navigate brand-new challenges. For Michelle Shue and her yearbook staff at Davie County High School in Mocksville, North Carolina. Like many schools around the country, they didn't have much warning when they learned they wouldn't be returning to the classroom. With their final deadline approaching, Shue and her staff buckled down and submitted half their book's pages in a two-week window!

 Adviser of Note Kathy Beers, Timber Creek High School, Fort Worth, Texas | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:01:36

Kathy Beers, from Timber Creek High School in Fort Worth, Texas, exudes creativity. She’s known for always having ideas, and her successful yearbook marketing tactics have been shared with schools all over the country. In this episode, host Jim Jordan talks to Kathy about her roundabout journey to yearbook and where she gets all her great ideas.

 Adviser of Note: Jonathan Dixon, Corsicana High School, Corsicana, Texas | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:01:31

We're excited to introduce you to the March Adviser of Note! Johnathan Dixon is the yearbook adviser at Corsicana High School in Corsicana, Texas. His staff is known for their incredible photography skills, and it's not unusual for them to place in the Walsworth Yearbooks Photo Contest.  In this episode, host Jim Jordan talks photography, building a yearbook program from the ground up, and the journey that brought him to Corsicana High. 

 Adviser of Note: Brad Cook, Gresham High School, Gresham, Oregon | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:01:19

Brad Cook, yearbook adviser at Gresham High School in Gresham, Oregon, is a bona fide graphic designer. He teaches graphic design, digital photography and yearbook. Before becoming a teacher, he was a graphic designer at many places, including Nike – and he does his design work despite being colorblind! He’s passionate about typography and all things design. In this episode, Brad and host Jim Jordan take a deep dive on great design and creating an incredible yearbook.

 Level Up Update #1 with Har-Ber High School, Springdale, Arkansas | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 34:51

In October 2019, Har-Ber High School in Springdale, Arkansas, and Meridian High School in Maycomb, Illinois, were selected as the winners of Walsworth Yearbooks’ Level Up contest. The prize package, worth over $3,500, includes a visit by Jim Jordan and Mike Taylor, CJE, to work with their staffs, editors and adviser. In early January, Jordan visited Karla Sprague, CJE, and her staff at Har-Ber High School and shared his experience.

 Rising Stars Part 2: Vanessa Martinez, Samantha Lasarow and Bridgette Norris | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:19:09

In this episode, Jim honors three of Walsworth’s six advisers named a 2019 JEA Rising Star! Listen to his interview with Vanessa Martinez of El Dorado High School in El Paso, Texas; Samantha Lasarow of El Camino Real High School in Woodland Heights, California; and Bridgette Norris of Boone High School in Orland, Florida. Be sure to listen to the previous episode to hear Jim’s Rising Stars interviews with Leigh Rogers, Angie Wolfe and Dan Sidwell.

 JEA Rising Stars, Part 1: Leigh Rogers, Angie Wolfe and Dan Sidwell | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:30:32

In this episode, host Jim Jordan honors three of Walsworth's six advisers named a 2019 JEA Rising Star! Listen to his interview with Leigh Rogers of Hermann High School, Missouri; Angie Wolfe of Burke High School in Omaha, Nebraska; and Dan Sidwell of Freedom High School in Tampa, Florida.  Check back next week as Jim completes his Rising Stars interviews with Vanessa Martinez, Samantha Lasarow and Bridgette Norris. 

 Adviser of Note: Darren Thomas, Saugus High School, Santa Clarita, California | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 51:36

Darren Thomas has been teaching for years, but never advised a yearbook until the 2019 school year. As a new teacher at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita, California, he was looking for a way to feel more connected to his new school. He leaned on his editors that first year, and the staff created an award-winning book. In his second year, Thomas and his staff have the difficult task of covering a school year that includes a tragic event – a school shooting Nov. 14, 2019 left two students dead.

 JEA Adviser of the Year Becky Tate, Shawnee Mission North High School, Mission, Kansas | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 56:36

We already knew Becky Tate, CJE, is amazing. She's been at Shawnee Mission North High School in Mission, Kansas, for 31 years and many of her yearbook students have gone on to become journalism advisers themselves.  She was just named JEA's 2019 H.L. Hall Yearbook Adviser of the Year and we're celebrating her by re-releasing Jim's interview with Becky from earlier this school year. Jim even reached out to Becky after the announcement and they recorded a bonus piece about her experience that day. 

 Live at the NHSJC Washington, DC | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 51:29

Not able to make it to the NHSJC in Washington, D.C. this year? Did you attend but want even more? Want to revisit fond memories? Listen to this episode, recorded live from the Fall 2019 convention in Washington, D.C. Jim interviewed JEA President Sarah Nichols, Convention Chair Meghan Percival, and the editorial staff of Pine Crest High School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

 BONUS: Julia Satterthwaite and the Monta Vista High School yearbook editors – part 1 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 35:35

Julia Satterthwaite, MJE, just handled her first big deadline as a yearbook adviser. She’s advised other publications for several years, but host Jim Jordan is following her journey for the first year advising at Monta Vista High School in Cupertino, California. This is the first check-in episode. He’ll continue to follow Julia and her staff’s progress throughout the year. Stay tuned to learn how they’re navigating the yearbook process together!

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