New Advisers

Your Walsworth rep has added you to this group for new advisers. If you would like to be removed, please email me and let me know. Most Sundays, I’ll send updates to help you in your classroom. Each update will be full of checklists, classroom help and pro tips.

• Set up Folio/Page Numbers (Master Pages) in online design
• Align Items- Show your students how to clean up element spacing in Online Design
• Design Your Cover -(see below for the lesson and what goes on the cover)
• Design Your Title Page (page 1) (see below)
• Get Prepared for Senior Ads- Send final deadline and instructions to senior parents. Also set up your procedures for how to create the senior ads.
• PEP List- This program is free, and Walsworth does all the work. Your sales will increase once you're on this program. Check out the updated PEP website.
• Cover Deadline- If you don't have a start or mock-up of your cover, you're running a bit behind. Reach out to your rep about options to get the cover submitted.
• Increase Sales This Week- Print out custom flyers. Have your staff team up with the cheerleaders and/or drumline to hand out flyers to parents in the drop-off or pick-up line.

When you're creating your cover, use these Timely Tips as a lesson on cover creation. Also, see the handout below to create your title page.

Watch this video for how I prepared for senior ads. Need help with how to sell and promote senior ads including policies? Check out this website. https://legacystudentmedia.com/buy-an-ad/

Your store should be active. Hang posters directing buyers (parents) to go to www.yearbookforever.com. I suggest going there and finding your school, so you know what the process looks like for your buyers. Posters are in your kit, the blue bag. If you haven’t enrolled in our PEP (Parent Email Program), this is a free service that emails parents. You’ll need to get a list of students, grades and parent emails submitted ASAP. Get the list to your Walsworth rep. You can also order custom marketing (posters, banners, postcards, etc).

After accidentally taking newspaper in the seventh grade, I have advised high school yearbooks and newspapers ever since. I was the newspaper and yearbook adviser at Legacy High School in Mansfield, Texas for 18 years and 7 in Big Spring, Texas. Legacy’s publications have won CSPA Crowns, NSPA Pacemakers and ILPC Stars. I served on the Texas Association of Journalism Educators board as the Webmaster for eight years. I won CSPA’s Distinguished Adviser award in 2024, the JEA Distinguished Adviser award in 2018, and Commended in 2025. In 2015 I was awarded the Max Haddick award, the Texas Journalism Adviser of the Year, from ILPC. I’ve also won the Edith Fox King Texas journalism teacher award in 2010 and the TAJE Trailblazer award in 2013. In June, I joined the Walsworth family as the Texas Education Specialist. My new job is to help you and your students create a stronger yearbook while making your job easier.

Cell- 817.253.7813

leland.mallett@walsworth.com