Sometimes when people ask her about her job, Kim Green, yearbook adviser at Columbus North High School, tells them she is the official copy maker for her media students. But Green makes more than copies, as evidenced by her recent honor as 2011 JEA Yearbook Adviser of the Year.
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Talk to yearbook advisers and there seems to be little debate – February and March can be really stressful months for the staff. So the question becomes: what can the yearbook staff do to keep from pulling their hair out?
Since only juniors and seniors can enroll in yearbook at my school, each year I have to train a new group of five talented individuals to ride this new bike around school, so to speak. So what kind of training wheels do I need to provide for these newbie leaders?
When I took over the yearbook staff, the book was in debt, the students were uninterested, and the school was not sure it wanted to continue to support a failing program. Which is why I developed these strategies to recruit and retain a new staff.
Big ideas come to those who take the time to think. Explore what Thinking Big really means for your yearbook.
In her first year as the adviser at the O’Bryant School in Roxbury, Mass., English teacher Betsy Lazo and her young staff changed the entire culture around the school’s yearbook program. This is their story.
Every fall we return to school with an eagerness to start the new yearbook. As the days turn into weeks and the first deadline approaches, an adviser needs to provide guidance as the staff learns what is required of them as individuals of this team effort.
It can be tempting to get a clean break from the grind of yearbook over the summer. But there is yearbook work that can be done – preparation that will make creating next year’s book go even smoother.
The yearbook staff has spent months chronicling the year for their fellow students, who should be as excited to see the finished product as the staff. Build on that enthusiasm of the yearbook by hosting a distribution signing party.
More teachers are taking on the challenge of earning certification with the National Board for Professional Standards, including yearbook advisers.
