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. A few times a month, I’ll send updates to help you in your classroom. Each update will be full of checklists, classroom help and pro tips.

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.

If you haven’t set up your staff in online design, get this done ASAP. Each user needs an account. You will also need to assign pages to staff members.

Reach out to your campus secretary or principal about where to get the list of student whose parents wish for them NOT to be published in the yearbook. Parents complete a form each year. Once you have this list, you can email parents to make sure they meant to remove their student from the book. I would have 200 or so on the list and only have 10-15 when I sent the parent email. This is something your supervisor should approve and help with. Each district is different.

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).

Cell- 817.253.7813

leland.mallett@walsworth.com