Make plans NOW to train, motivate and energize your staff! Register now to attend Central Arkansas Jostens Summer Workshop, July 25-27 at Harding University in Searcy, AR!
To register for the summer workshop, click here!
Don't miss this incredible workshop. Scroll down to register now, right on this page. (If you want to see how much fun we have, click here to see a slideshow from our previous workshops.)
This year's workshop will feature Wayna Polk as our keynote speaker.
Wayna Polk recently retired from the classroom after 29 years of advising high school publications at Abilene High School [TX]. She serves as the JEA South Central Region Director and as the Scholarship [JOY] Chairperson. A self proclaimed yearbook nerd since her sophomore year in high school, Polk has been honored with JEA's Medal of Merit, NSPA's Pioneer Award and has been recognized as a Distinguished Adviser and Special Recognition Adviser in the JEA Yearbook Adviser of the Year contest. She has been awarded the Max R. Haddick Journalism Teacher of the Year in Texas and was named as one of 75 Texas Legends in scholastic journalism during the 75th Anniversary of the Texas high school press association. Wayna was recently award the Gold Key from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association.
Her yearbook, the Flashlight, won every state and national award over the years and was one of the top Texas yearbooks for the last 25 years. Judging yearbooks for various state and national press associations over the years, she is a frequent speaker at state, regional and national journalism conventions. Wayna loves teaching summer yearbook workshops and meeting students and their advisers from all over the country!
Besides Wayna, we'll have Jostens Tech experts to show you everything new in all that is yearbook technology! Your staff members will have hands-on lab time where you can work on your own 2012 yearbook!
To register for the summer workshop, click here!
And as always, each school will have an individual planning sesson with one of the artists from the Topeka plant to help you design your cover and your overall book design.
The cost for the workshops is only $100 each for both students and advisers. Advisers who attend with at least five students are FREE!!!
More about our other instructors
Jennifer Garner is the adviser at Lakeside High School where she has taught journalism and advised the yearbook and newspaper staffs for more than 15 years. Her staffs have earned 14 All-Arkansas awards as well as CSPA silver and gold medalist awards. She is a Master Journalism Educator and has a Master's Degree in Journalism from UALR, where she focused her studies on student media law and censorship.
On a national level, she judges yearbooks and newspapers for the Columbia Scholastic Press Association and the Michigan Interscholastic Press Association. She has been active in the Arkansas Scholastic Press Association, serving in capacities ranging from president to regional officer. In addition to teaching, Jennifer finds time to write professionally for local non-profits and businesses. Working with students and sharing her enthusiasm for journalism are her real loves, though.
Margaret Sorrows, CJE, holds a Master's Degree in Journalism from UALR and has advised yearbooks and newspapers in Arkansas, Texas and Virginia. She is currently the yearbook and newspaper adviser at Bryant High School. Her yearbook has won the All-Arkansas Award every year since 1995, Silver Crowns, Pacemaker, NSPA First Place Best of Show winner, All-Southern and a SIPA Scoggins Award winner. Sorrows' 2010 yearbook recently received the school's first Gold Crown award from CSPA.
She is a past Arkansas Adviser of the Year, Bryant School District Teacher of the Year, Arkansas Teacher of the Year Finalist, SIPA Distinguished Service Award winner, Arkansas Press Assn. Journalism Educator Award winner and the recipient of the Joseph W. Shoquist Freedom of the Press Award from SIPA. Since 1992, her students have won over 1,500 individual awards in state, regional and national competitions. In 2007, Sorrows was named JEA Distinguished Adviser and her yearbook was inducted into the NSPA Yearbook Hall of Fame.
To register for the summer workshop, click here!
Announcing our Computer Workshops coming July 20 for advisers and August 3 & 4 for students, 2011!
Click here to download the registration forms for the computer workshops.