Kathy Beers spent 29 years in the classroom and 22 years advising the award-winning yearbook at Timber Creek High School in Fort Worth. She is now a Creative and Adobe Specialist for Walsworth Yearbooks. She loves to help guide advisers and staffs through their crazy ideas on their journey to make their yearbook vision a reality. Kathy is a wife, mother of two very creative adult daughters, and a dog mom. Maybe someday, she will REALLY retire and become a part time flower farmer and world traveler.

Alyssa Boehringer is UIL Journalism Director and ILPC Director in Texas. She taught journalism at her alma mater McKinney High School for 16 years where she advised some combination yearbook, broadcasting and online news. She is a winner of ILPC’s Edith Fox King Award, TAJE’s Trailblazer Award and JEA’s Medal of Merit. In 2017, JEA named her National Broadcast Journalism Teacher of the Year. 

Jim Jordan: After 35 years as the yearbook adviser of the Decamhian at Del Campo High School in Fair Oaks, California, Jim Jordan is now a Special Consultant with Walsworth Yearbooks. Under Jordan’s guidance, the Decamhian yearbook earned 20 NSPA Pacemakers and 20 CSPA Crowns which earned it second place in the NSPA all-time Top 100. In 1996, he was named the National Yearbook Adviser of the Year by JEA. He also was awarded the CSPA Gold Key, the JEA Medal of Merit, the NSPA Pioneer Award and the Linda S. Puntney Teacher Inspiration Award from JEA. With Walsworth, he serves as the lead mentor for the company’s Adviser Mentor Program and is a host of “That Yearbook Podcast” a podcast that encourages advisers and staffs to create great yearbooks.

Tucker Love, is the journalism teacher and publications adviser at Shawnee Mission South High School in Overland Park, Kansas where he works with the photojournalism, yearbook, newspaper and literary magazine staffs. In his seven years advising at South, his students have received All-Kansas recognitions, the NSPA Pacemaker, the CSPA Crown, and have been recognized in numerous contests at the local, state and national levels. Love was selected as a JEA Distinguished Adviser of the Year in December 2024, because his students continue to do good scholastic journalism work. When Love is not advising, he’s likely drinking cold brew coffee, learning to crochet, or deciding which house plant to purchase next.

Susan Massy, who retired from Shawnee Mission Northwest High School, built a journalism empire with the school’s yearbook, news magazine and online publications. The Lair was named #1 in NSPA’s Top 100 and the Northwest Passage was listed in the Top 100 in 2020. Both have won numerous Pacemakers and Gold Crowns during her 45-year career as a journalism instructor and publications adviser. In 1999, Massy was named the National Yearbook Teacher of the Year by the Journalism Education Association.She has received the Engel Award (Kansas Journalism Teacher of the Year), NSPA’s Pioneer Award, JEA’s Medal of Merit, the Lifetime Achievement Award (2023) and CSPA’s Charles O’Malley Teaching Award (2023). Massy continues to travel nationally to work with individual staffs as well as present at state and national conventions and summer workshops. 

Ericka Muncy Ericka Muncy is the adviser of Jupiter High School’s Chieftain yearbook and the 2024 FSPA Journalism Teacher of the Year. Under her leadership, the yearbook has won multiple awards, including an NSPA Pacemaker and two CSPA Silver Crowns. The yearbook has also been recognized as an NSPA All American publication, an FSPA All Florida publication and an FSPA Sunshine Standout. Before teaching, Muncy worked in the publishing industry in New York City at both Random House and Oxford University Press.

Sabrina Schmitz is a representative of  Walsworth Yearbooks as the Key Accounts Specialist and is the former yearbook and newspaper adviser at J.W. Mitchell High School in New Port Richey, FL. Under her leadership, The Stampede yearbook was awarded multiple CSPA Crown awards, a NSPA Pacemaker Award, and was a Design of the Year Finalist in 2012. She was recognized as Teacher of the Year in 2013, was a District Teacher of the Year Finalist, and teaches at workshops and conventions around the country.  

Annie Stone is a 30-year veteran yearbook adviser in the Pacific Northwest. She advises the yearbook and news website at Glacier Peak High School. Her students have won state and national awards for their work. 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.

C. Dow Tate teaches journalism at Shawnee Mission East High School in Prairie Village, Kansas, and is the director of the Gloria Shields NSPA Media Workshop. In his 31 years teaching, he was inducted into the Scholastic Journalism Hall of Fame at the University of Oklahoma, named the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund’s National High School Journalism Teacher of the Year and chosen as a JEA Distinguished Adviser. His students placed in the National Scholastic Press Association’s National Photo of the Year contest 46 times, and his students’ publications consistently win the NSPA Pacemaker and the CSPA Gold Crown.

 

Bradley Wilson. Publications adviser and instructor at Leander High School (Texas), Bradley received his doctoral degree in public administration from North Carolina State University where he advised the collegiate media for a decade. Since 1997, he has been the editor of the national magazine, Communication: Journalism Education Today, for the national Journalism Education Association.In 2020, the Scholastic Journalism Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication gave him the David Adams Educator of the Year Award. He has received the Gold Key from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association, the Pioneer Award from the National Scholastic Press Association, the Star of Texas from the Association of Texas Photography Instructors, the Trailblazer Award from the Texas Association of Journalism Educators and the Carl Towley Award from the Journalism Education Association. In 2014, the National Press Photographers Association named him the Robin F. Garland Educator of the Year and the College Media Association named him a Distinguished Adviser for newspaper advising at a four-year college or university. In 2017, he received the Edith Fox King Award for contributions to scholastic journalism in Texas.