As the school year and the work on this year’s yearbook is winding down, advisers can already start their preparations for next year. One great way to get ready for next year is by attending a yearbook workshop. You can see all of Walsworth’s workshop options in our updated Workshop Central section, with listings broken down by month.
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Whether you are still wrapping up this year’s yearbook, or you have already submitted all the pages and you are looking ahead, here is a list of crucial year-end tasks to think about.
Final deadlines are looming for most spring delivery yearbooks. This is the time of year when pages have to be completed and submitted on time to ensure your yearbook is delivered when expected. Meeting a deadline doesn’t have to be a hair-puller though. All it takes is some diet cola, plenty of pizza and these five essential tips.
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.
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.
The holidays are approaching, which at most schools means two weeks off from school. The anticipation is overwhelming – so overwhelming that it can be hard to keep your staff on task to make those December deadlines. So how do you do it? Many yearbook advisers use a mixture of work and fun to keep students focused.
From experience I learned that even the biggest control freak of an editor-in-chief cannot afford to micromanage, regardless of how friendly the whole staff is.
Many influences will affect yearbook in the future, but its intrinsic value to its readers will determine its staying power. Seven yearbook advisers were brought together to talk about the future of yearbooks, and several times the discussion came back to value.
Two yearbook advisers and lifelong friends devised a leadership training retreat so they could concentrate on advising and empower the editors to lead the staff while learning useful life skills
As advisers, every time we change something about our yearbook operations, there is bound to be some resistance. I saw the need for one significant change: go from a May to an August delivery to include spring coverage. To make that significant of a change, though, I had to first change the class from an editor-centered to a student-centered class.
