Planning your yearbook coverage is a whole new ball game this year. Previous years may have allowed you to take last year’s ladder and tweak it for the upcoming year, but some schools are completely reimagining their coverage approach. That may sound scary, but it’s actually a great thing!
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Next week is Halloween, which is always one of the more colorful, photogenic events of the fall for yearbook staffs to document. Many schools incorporate Spirit Week around the week of Halloween, so it can be an important coverage week. Make sure your staff photographers and reporters are ready, the way they were for the…
As schools start back in session in many parts of the country this month, that means yearbook staffs are heading back to work on 2019 yearbooks. In our newest Coverage Spotlight, we’re going to take a look at a traditional staple in the student life section of many books – back-to-school coverage. Lots of staffs…
The holidays and winter break are likely a time for most yearbook staffs to pause, regroup and get ready for the second semester. A week or two off to recharge is great for all involved, but it’s also good to keep in mind that this time of year is also filled with story possibilities. In…
Every yearbook staff loves doing a fashion spread as part of its trends coverage within their student life pages. For some staffs, that fashion spread makes up the entirety of their trends coverage. While that fashion spread is fun to create, think about it – there’s more to the trends of the year than just…
A reliable staple of yearbook summer coverage for many staffs is tracking where their students travel during their three months of free time. Sometimes it leads to interesting tales of adventure and, in particular, fun photos. As you can see in our latest Coverage Spotlight, the staff from Del Campo High School in Fair Oaks,…
For many yearbook staffs, summer break is a time for brainstorming theme and cover ideas at yearbook camp, and staff bonding and training while getting ready for the new school year. But student life doesn’t stop during the summer, which means lots of fun, fascinating stories are going on out there in the world –…
In our first Coverage Spotlight of this year, we’re taking a closer look at the outstanding job the staff at Davie County High School in Mocksville, North Carolina, did in their 2017 yearbook. For more than 60 years, students at Davie County High have been walking the halls and creating memories at the same building…
Winter break arrives this week for schools, which means a time for us all to take a few days to relax around the holidays with family and friends. However student life continues over the break, providing opportunity for your yearbook staff to capture a slice of this year to look back on years down the…
As a new addition to our Yearbooks Blog series of Spotlights that so far has included Cover Spotlights and Photo Spotlights, we’re excited to start sharing Coverage Spotlights whenever we find interesting, unique or just well-written coverage by yearbook staffs. This week’s Coverage Spotlight comes from the 2016 Tartan yearbook from Homestead High School in…
