YEARBOOK EVENTS & WORKSHOPS
Adviser Experience
Adviser Experience
save the date: july 19-21, 2027
The Adviser Experience is an all-inclusive event in Kansas City — designed just for you. Learn, collaborate and gain the confidence to lead your yearbook staff to success once the school year begins!
You’ll have the opportunity to learn from fellow advisers and experts, visit our state-of-the-art yearbook plant, meet your support team in KC and connect with fellow advisers who share your passion.
Learn more here →
Local Camps and Workshops
Local Camps and Workshops
THERE’S NOTHING BETTER THAN A YBK WORKSHOP
Recommendations? Local? Regional? National? All of the above, of course. Yearbookers grow by leaps and bounds as a direct result of attending workshops. It’s the exposure to YBK experts from around the country and learning from other amazing yearbook staffers. It’s bouncing ideas off their peers and having those precious lightbulb moments when an idea becomes a plan. It’s all worth it. It’s just another way we help make yearbook special for you and your students.
Dates coming soon!
eDesign On-Demand Webinars
edesign on-demand webinars
Train your staff at their own pace with on-demand eDesign webinars covering the tools, features and workflows they’ll use throughout the year.
National Conventions
Journalism Education Association & National Scholastic Press Association
The JEA/NSPA National High School Journalism Convention is a semiannual gathering of high school journalists and advisers sponsored by the Journalism Education Association and its partner, the National Scholastic Press Association. Click here to learn more.
Columbia Scholastic Press Association
The Columbia Scholastic Press Association invites high school students and faculty advisers to attend this national gathering of student editors and faculty advisers to newspapers, yearbooks, magazines, video productions and online media. Click here to learn more.
Associated Collegiate Press
The ACP National College Media Convention is the nation’s largest gathering of collegiate journalists, media students and their advisers. Click here to learn more.
Press Pass Academy
Press Pass Academy
save the date:
Weekend One (DIVISION II): Jan. 28 – 31
Weekend One (DIVISION I): Feb. 3-7
Exclusive to Varsity Yearbook and Varsity Yearbook customers, your yearbook adviser and up to three staffers can travel with your school’s cheer squad, dance team or marching band for a hands-on journalism experience at the National School Spirit Championships at Walt Disney World Resort®.
This weekend serves as the home of the UCA National High School Cheerleading Championship (NHSCC), UDA National Dance Team Championship (NDTC) and will introduce the new National School Band Championship.
Learn more here →
Theme Retreat
Theme Retreat
save the date: april 30 – may 2, 2027
Bring your editorial staff together for an intensive weekend designed to shape the direction of your next yearbook.
Leave the noise behind and dive into focused time with your staff and expert instructors during the inaugural Theme Retreat. Work alongside experts to explore big ideas, develop a theme and strengthen your vision before you leave for the summer.
