The fourth in an ongoing series, this episode features the Journalism Education Association's 1996 Yearbook Adviser of the Year, Jim Jordan.

Jim retired from teaching in June 2017 after a remarkable 35-year run at Del Campo HS (Calif.), where he advised the award-winning Decamhian yearbook and was on the vanguard of advisers integrating desktop publishing technologies in yearbook classrooms in the mid 80s. Lucky enough to have all three of his children on his staff over the years, Jim learned to approach advising with a process- and people-based focus, instead of sacrificing everything for sake of the product. We talk about keeping up with the "yearbook Joneses," and the importance of the professional network of colleagues, resources, and mentors that we can benefit from in our professional lives.

Catch Jim's own podcast, Yearbook Chat with Jim, on WYPN, the Walsworth Yearbooks Podcast Network! Don't miss Ask Mike, WYPN's second podcast, with host Mike Taylor. You can find both here: walsworthyearbooks.com/podcasts/

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