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Work with the best and prepare for 2025 by attending the exclusive Elite Weekend workshop in Fort Worth, Texas
 
You and a few key staff members will develop your 2025 theme package with the finest yearbook instructors.
 
Meet the instructors:

 

Alyssa Boehringer is director of ILPC, the student press association for the State of Texas, and is Director of UIL Journalism. Before that, she advised some combination of yearbook, broadcast and online news at McKinney High School for 16 years. Alyssa served on the board of the Texas Association of Journalism Educators for years and served as state director, secretary and president and currently works on the planning committee for the Gloria Shields NSPA Media Workshop. She was the 2017 JEA Broadcast Adviser of the Year and is a recipient of JEA’s Medal of Merit, TAJE’s Trailblazer Award as well as ILPC’s Edith Fox King Award.

Annie Stone, MJE loves passionate people and has a special place in her heart for those who are energized by strong graphic design and quality journalism. She’s starting year 30 as an educator in the greater Seattle area. She currently advises both online newspaper and yearbook at Glacier Peak High School. Her students have won various awards at state and national conventions. Stone is a Master Journalism Educator and a National Board Certified Teacher. She loves helping advisers and students create publications that exceed their expectations. Stone is also a pottery aficionado who enjoys art, trips to the ocean and her beloved Vespa, Stella

Jim Jordan is the former yearbook adviser at Del Campo High School in Fair Oaks, California, and now a special consultant for Walsworth Yearbooks.

He was a yearbook adviser for 35 years, and over the years the Decamhian yearbook earned numerous Pacemaker and CSPA Gold Crown honors. The Decamhian was recognized in 2022 as having earned the second-highest number of Pacemakers in NSPA’s 100 year history.

Jordan was the 1996 JEA Yearbook Adviser of the Year, and has received CSPA Gold Key, NSPA Pioneer, JEA Medal of Merit and JEA Lifetime Achievement awards. He received the Linda S. Puntney Teacher Inspiration Award in 2021.

He now shares his expertise with students and advisers at workshops and conventions across the country and leads mentorship through the Adviser Mentor Program. He was among the first to embrace desktop technology in the 1980s and apply it to yearbook, and he remains an innovator in the yearbook industry.

Be sure to check out his yearbook-focused podcast, Yearbook Chat with Jim that highlights the stories of great yearbook advisers from around the country.

Elizabeth Luna, NBCT, is the yearbook adviser at Athens Drive Magnet High School in North Carolina. Her students’ work has earned consistent recognition at the state level over the last twelve years, including regular North Carolina Awards of Distinction and six Tarheel Awards from the North Carolina Scholastic Press Association. In 2020, The Torch earned its first NSPA Pacemaker. In her 12-year career, she has focused on graphic design as the building block of a solid yearbook, using her design background to engage students in conversations around successful design and photography.

Susan Massy is the yearbook adviser at Shawnee Mission Northwest High School in Shawnee, Kansas, where her Lair yearbook staffs have been demonstrating excellence in writing and design for the past two decades. The Lair recently won its 19th Pacemaker award from the NSPA under Massy’s guidance. In 1999, Massy was chosen the National Yearbook Adviser of the Year by JEA. In 2013, Massy was inducted into the Kansas Scholastic Press Association Hall of Fame.

 

Susan McNulty is The Stampede yearbook adviser at J.W. Mitchell High School in New Port Richey, Florida. In her ten years as adviser, The Stampede has been named an NSPA Pacemaker finalist and winner, a CPSA Silver Crown winner, and a Sunshine Standout and All-Florida ranking for ten straight years from the Florida Scholastic Press Association. She has been named Pasco County Teacher of the year, JEA Rising Star, FSPA Teacher of the Year, and FSPA Gold Medallion winner. Her students regularly attend state and national workshops and compete and place in design, photography and writing contests.

Sabrina Schmitz, CJE, is a Walsworth Yearbooks representative, key accounts specialist and the former publications adviser at J.W. Mitchell High School in Trinity, Florida. Under her leadership, The Stampede yearbook earned multiple CSPA Crowns, an NSPA Pacemaker, and was a Design of the Year Finalist. She was Teacher of the Year in 2013, was a District Teacher of the Year Finalist, and teaches at workshops and conventions nationwide. 

Clint Smith has taught for 18 years at Texas High School, Texarkana, where he instructs photojournalism, commercial photography and a convergent media class. Smith also co-advises the newspaper and yearbook. Before beginning his teaching career, he worked in broadcast news and television commercial production. He currently serves as past president of the Association of Texas Photography Instructors and received the Interscholastic League Press Conference Edith Fox King Award in 2019. Smith also produces The Photo Adviser podcast.

Mike Taylor, CJE, is a Key Accounts Manager with Walsworth Yearbooks. He taught yearbook, newspaper and television production at Lecanto High School, Lecanto, Florida, for 13 years, where his publications staffs won numerous awards. Taylor has been awarded the JEA Medal of Merit, CSPA Gold Key and Florida Scholastic Press Association Gold Medallion. As a well-known instructor at workshops and conventions across the country, he has consulted with countless yearbook staffs to help them realize their potential in creating journalistic yearbooks.

 

Andrew Young, CJE advises The Round-Up at Woodland Junior High School in Fayetteville, AR. Young was named a 2017 Rising Star by JEA, 2018 Arkansas Adviser of the Year, 2018 Fayetteville Public Schools Teacher of the Year, 2020 Outstanding Young Alumni from the University of Arkansas and most recently 2022 Special Recognition Adviser from JEA. His staffs have been recognized in the JEA Middle School/Junior High Media contest, NSPA Picture/Story/Design of the Year contests, Arkansas Scholastic Press Association awards and Walsworth Photo Contest. Woodland’s 2023 The Round-Up yearbook received a Silver Crown from CSPA and won a NSPA Pacemaker. Young currently serves as the President of the Arkansas Scholastic Press Association and has a passion for seeing junior high and middle school journalism programs take it to the next level.