High-Intensity Interval Training is a great way to get in shape, right? Borrowing the same idea of intense work and intense training, staffs across the country can get their yearbooks in shape at Balfour’s Intensity Workshop. This workshop focuses on three days of immersion in all things YEARBOOK. Yearbook advisers, editors and staff are welcome to attend the workshop, which will be held Saturday, Sept. 30 – Monday, Oct. 2 at the Balfour Yearbook Publishing Plant in Dallas, Texas.
Your classroom time features a lineup of award-winning advisers and Balfour experts who are in tune with industry trends and yearbook award standards. These fine folks will help you and your students polish & refine the plans for the 2018 yearbook. Intensity instructors include:
Samantha Jo Berry teaches at Bridgeland High School in Houston. She received the 2015 Pathfinder Award from the Texas Association of Journalism Educators and was recently named as one of 13 recipients of the Rising Star Award from the Journalism Education Association. Her students’ publications have received numerous awards from CSPA, ILPC and JEA.
Judi Coolidge retired from teaching after 35 years at Bay High School in Ohio and has worked as part of Balfour’s education and marketing team for the past eleven years. The books she advised won 28 All-Americans and Gold Medals, NSPA Pacemakers, CSPA Trendsetter and Gold Crowns and a Publisher’s Industry Award. Coolidge received NSPA’s Pioneer Award, CSPA’s Gold Key and JEA National Yearbook Adviser of the Year. She is in the Great Lakes Interscholastic Press and the Scholastic Journalism halls of fame and a Martha Holden Jennings Scholar.
Annie Green is a Certified Journalism Educator and National Board teacher in the Pacific Northwest. She has been teaching 22 years in the Snohomish School District and is currently advising yearbook and online newspaper at Glacier Peak High School. Her students have earned national awards and strong critiques for their yearbooks. Green is excited to share innovative theme, coverage and design ideas to help staffs create their best book ever.
Kel Lemons fell in love with yearbook at 16. More than two decades later, she has her dream job as Balfour’s Key Account & Education Manager. Before joining Balfour, Kel was a newspaper and yearbook adviser for 12 years in Texas. Her publications at Connally High School and Rouse High School won numerous ILPC Stars, CSPA Crowns and NSPA Pacemakers. Kel’s love for design and photography was heavily influenced by her first job as a newspaper photographer at the Waco Tribune-Herald. When she’s not working, she’s usually curled up with a good book or the latest Entertainment Weekly. Kel’s only slightly addicted to thrift shopping, house renovations, Whataburger and Law & Order reruns.
Michael Pena is a high school photography teacher at Trinity High School in Euless, Texas. Pena helps high school students find a passion for photography and graphic design. As an instructor and public speaker, Pena takes on the role of counselor, mentor, and most importantly being a good role model for today’s youth. After all, he was voted most friendliest for his senior class.
Kristi Rathbun, CJE, advises The Black & Gold yearbook, The Rock student newspaper and rockmediaonline at Rock Canyon High School in Highlands Ranch, CO. For over 20 years, she has helped journalists achieve state and national success in student media. Her students have earned All-Colorado Awards from Colorado Student Media Association, Crown and Gold Medalist recognition from CSPA, Pacemaker and All-American recognition from NSPA and a number of Best of Show honors at national and state conferences. Rathbun speaks at national and state conventions and workshops helping students and their advisers build solid programs in multiple media platforms. Rathbun currently serves as the CSMA Advocacy Coordinator and Colorado JEA State Director; she was selected as a JEA Distinguished Adviser in 2014 and received a CSPA Gold Key in 2016.
Sarah Tricano has advised Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy’s Tigrium, a Silver Crown and Pacemaker finalist, K-12 yearbook for the past 7 years. She also teaches photography. She has taught sessions at national and state conventions, as well as workshops across the country. She also teaches advanced yearbook topics with a focus on refining design and finding inspiration in the world around us. Before becoming an adviser and teacher, Sarah worked as a design professional at multiple high-end interior design firms in New York. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Stony Brook University and master’s degree in Industrial Design from Rochester Institute of Technology. degree in Industrial Design from Rochester Institute of Technology. She is currently the president of the Florida Scholastic Press Association.
In addition to learning from nationally recognized trainers, networking with peers and refining your yearbook, attendees will be in Dallas during the annual State Fair of Texas, which celebrates all things TEXAN. You and your staff can choose to take in the sites, rides, live music and check out the world’s largest Texan, Big Tex. Enjoy deep-fried concoctions such as Holy Moly Carrot Cake Roly, Deep Fried Peaches & Cream, Chicken Fried Bacon and much more.
Attendees will stay at the conveniently located DoubleTree by Hilton Dallas—Love Field, which is just across the street from Love Field and 10 minutes from downtown Dallas.
Balfour’s Intensity Workshop will rock your world and your staff’s world. The 3-day immersion in all-things-yearbook will help you and your staff create the yearbook of your dreams.
To find out more about Balfour’s Intensity Workshop and determine if it’s suited to your staff’s needs, contact your Balfour representative.