If you want a group of motivated staffers who love yearbook and get along with each other, the year doesn’t start in September — it starts in May. Here is a detailed look at how I have arranged our year by month, with ideas for how to keep kids excited all year, because these moments will be the highs that counteract the stressful, discouraging lows.
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Here is a chance to borrow and steal my ideas on recruiting new yearbook staff members. Just about every idea has been drawn from my myriad yearbook experiences, from high school until the present day. A fun icebreaker from high school, a college yearbook tradition, a casual conversation at a national conference… all have become resources in my quest to recruit and retain the best yearbook staff that I can.
You are probably thinking this right now: You want me to actually teach yearbook? As if I didn’t have enough going on already — surly parents calling to complain, administrators wanting to “check” the yearbook spreads, computers that constantly crash, and a digital camera that now gives an error message whenever we need it most. The handouts from the last adviser seem to work just fine. Besides, I barely have time to get the yearbook done, let alone update the materials and try to teach the kids anything about yearbook or journalism.
