Yearbook Chat with Jim

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Adviser of Note: Pat Monroe, Burges High School, El Paso, Texas Nov 14, 2019

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Pat Monroe has been an adviser at Burges High School in El Paso, Texas, for 29 years. During that time, her staffs have won many awards for their yearbook. This month’s adviser of note shared her background, including her previous career as a broadcast journalist, and what working with yearbook staffs means to her.

You can learn more and see pictures of Pat and her students at walsworthyearbooks.com.

Julia Satterthwaite, Monta Vista High School, Cupertino California, Takes on the Challenge of Creating a Yearbook Oct 24, 2019

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Julia Satterthwaite recently made some big changes in her life. She and her family recently moved from Michigan to California.

In her new job at Monta Vista High School in Cupertino, California, she added "yearbook adviser" to her list of roles for the first time. Follow along all year as host Jim Jordan checks back in with this experienced journalism educator as she navigates her first year of yearbook.

How Can I Level Up My Yearbook? Oct 03, 2019

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In this special WYPN crossover episode, host Jim Jordan teams up with Mike Taylor, of the Ask Mike podcast, to talk about leveling up your yearbook! They bring in yearbook experts do discuss the possibilities and ways yearbook staffs can make improvements. They also speak to advisers and staffs about the ways they want to Level Up their yearbooks for 2020!

Get some help achieving your goals. Enter the Walsworth Yearbooks Level Up contest at walsworthyearbooks.com/level-up and you could win a visit from Jim and Mike!

Becky Tate, Shawnee Mission North High School, Mission, Kansas, Has an Amazing Yearbook Community Sep 12, 2019

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Becky Tate, CJE, is in a position many journalism advisers would envy. She and the four other high school publications teachers in her district all get along. It probably helps that one of those four is her husband and two are former students.

Becky has advised some incredible, award-winning yearbooks during her three decades at Shawnee Mission North High School in Mission, Kansas. In this episode, Becky and host Jim Jordan discuss her success, her history and the community she helped to build.

Leah Waters and Neelam Borah – An Incredible Gift of Life Aug 22, 2019

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When Neelam Borah fell seriously ill her freshman year of college, she soon learned she needed a new kidney. She received that kidney within a few weeks from someone she'd never met. Leah Waters is a high school journalism teacher in Texas, which is how she heard about Neelam's need.

Leah saved Neelam's life, and their shared love of writing continues to connect them. You can read some of Neelam's writing on her blog.

You can learn more about kidney donations from The National Kidney Foundation.

What Was New in Year Two? Aug 08, 2019

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Way back in season one of Yearbook Chat with Jim, host Jim Jordan interviewed six yearbook advisers who had just wrapped up their first year of advising. Five of these yearbook advisers are still at it. For the start of season 3, Jim checked back in with those five to see how they're doing and what they expect as they head into their third year of advising yearbook.

These advisers represent a broad range of schools. From California to North Carolina, from high schools with thousands of students to a high school with less than 100 students, these advisers bring a broad range of experience to the episode. Despite their different backgrounds, they all have one thing in common: they came back and kept advising yearbook.

Yearbook Adviser of Note: Dow Tate, Shawnee Mission East High School, Prairie Village, Kansas Jun 13, 2019

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By the time he reached high school, Dow Tate was already a contributor to his local newspaper. That’s how much he was meant to work in journalism.

Dow is now the publications adviser at Shawnee Mission East in Prairie Village, Kansas. Jim named him the May Adviser of Note, and it's difficult to imagine someone more deserving.

Dow's students speak highly of him, and his staffs have won many awards.

Listen in to hear Dow's story, from growing up poor outside Dallas, Texas, to selling magazines at the age of five, to meeting his wife through the yearbook circuit!

Courtney Hanks and the University High School yearbook editors – part 3 Jun 02, 2019

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Host Jim Jordan has been checking in with Courtney Hanks and the yearbook staff of University High School in Orange City, Florida all year.

This final check-in, done in May, catches the graduating seniors right before they move on to the next stage and next year's staffers before they take over their new roles.

Adviser of Note: Vanessa Martinez, El Dorado High School, El Paso, Texas, is Not Competitive at All Apr 04, 2019

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In this episode, Jim Jordan talks with Vanessa Martinez of El Dorado High School in El Paso, Texas. She shares her journey from high school journalism, to college, to professional journalist, then finding her place as a scholastic journalism educator.

She shares what it was like to follow in the footsteps of a well-liked, award-winning adviser, how her competitive streak drives her to help her students succeed and the significance the Spanish language plays in their school and yearbook.

Contact Jim at podcasts@walsworth.com.

Parkland Speaks: Live from CSPA Mar 20, 2019

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Recorded live at the Columbia Scholastic Press Association Spring Convention, host Jim Jordan sat down with yearbook adviser Sarah Lerner and students who survived the February 14, 2018 tragedy at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

In the weeks following the shooting that left 17 dead, Lerner was approached about putting together a book of work about their school's experiences that day and after.

The result is "Parkland Speaks: Survivors from Marjory Stoneman Douglas Share their Stories." In this episode, Lerner and students who contributed to the book share their stories about using writing and art to process the experience.

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