The keys to making any yearbook program run smoothly and minimizing work and stress involve organization and continuity, and this is especially true when you are faced with the added challenge of your staff meeting as an after-school club.
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In a yearbook utopia, the new teacher would have a journalism degree, take photos like a pro, be able to manage a group of teenagers with aplomb and truly understand the importance of deadlines in the production of any publication. In reality, though, the yearbook adviser many times has little or no publishing experience and only lasts an average of two years. Following these tips can lead to happier advisers who stick with the job.
Everyone does yearbook a little differently, and that’s great! There’s nothing else quite like yearbook at a school and that unique position can lead to some creative solutions. What brilliant yearbook idea have you had? What ideas are passed down from adviser to adviser at your school? Perhaps all the advisers in your area get…
As the year comes to a close, responsibilities fall away. A yearbook adviser is never completely rid of responsibility – there’s always something you could be doing. But right now, while the mountain of work has shrunk to the size of a hill, take time to enjoy what you’ve created. A whole year of work…
Looking back on 35 years – a retrospective take on a respected yearbook adviser’s illustrious career
Yearbook advisers last an average of three years on the job, but Jim Jordan is retiring at the end of this school year with more than 10 times that tenure. He has been a yearbook adviser at Del Campo High School in Fair Oaks, California for 35 years. Under his leadership the Decamhian yearbook has…
Yearbook advisers from four schools won prizes for their yearbook staffs during their visit to the Walsworth booth at the JEA/NSPA Fall National High School Journalism Convention in Orlando. Advisers who visited the booth Nov. 12-13 to see a demo of Walsworth technology or attended a session with Walsworth Journalism Specialist Mike Taylor were eligible…
If you were a visitor to Steven Jay Thor’s yearbook room over the course of his career as a yearbook adviser, chances are you probably remembered it. And remembered him. Whether it was the life-sized posters adorning the walls, or the souvenir Thor’s hammer given to him as a gift by his students, when you…
Creating purposeful assessments at the end of the year or during final exam time is a challenging task for novice advisers as well as those veterans. Want to give your students the opportunity to share their thinking process when creating spreads with their staff? Have your yearbook staff reflect on and present one of their spreads!
The 2013 yearbook was Andrew Plonsky’s fourth as the adviser at Trinity School in New York, and although he still feels like he has a lot to learn, he’s finally got the basics down.
For more than 20 years, Jim Jordan, Crystal Kazmierski and Susan Massy have been the closest friends. They’ve taught together, shared ideas and supported each other. Now, the three yearbook advisers and their yearbook programs have found themselves aligned in one more way – tied in NSPA Pacemaker awards.
