Walsworth has new adviser tools to make your first year a success Imagine being a teacher entering your first year on one of the most demanding jobs in the school, and before it ever gets started, the world is stricken by a global pandemic that fundamentally changes your entire school. The anxiousness, the nervousness, the growing pains – all those
Increasing our resiliency was the only choice we had, right? Being resilient may not have been exactly what was on our minds this past year; just making it through each day was all we could ask. Teaching during COVID pushed teachers and administrators beyond their limits. As the world tried to figure out how to deal with the crisis, it
By Heather Rice, One School of the Arts, Longwood, Florida Your yearbook team worked hard to develop a theme, find a name, create amazing layouts and write captivating stories. Now how do you get your yearbook masterpiece into as many hands as possible? With many schools transitioning to a hybrid model of virtual and traditional schools, it’s time to get
With schools beginning in a distance-learning format, we’re forced to reexamine yearbooks. If our yearbooks are going to be memory books, reference books, public relations books and – perhaps most importantly this year – history books, then journalistic, interview-based copy is a crucial component of our 2021 yearbooks. For those who have relied on pictures to tell the story of
Taking a chronological content approach might be the best way to make sense of this unprecedented year. The sequence of content distribution requires deciding how to organize pages in a way that hooks the reader into the story, keeps their attention with an interesting and logical flow of information and doesn’t block signature submission. Here’s what you need to know.
Middle school yearbook comes with its own set of unique challenges and struggles. We often teach an entirely new group of students each year. Along with this comes the responsibility and challenges of training that brand-new staff every year. It can be an overwhelming task! Class time at the beginning of the year is full of all kinds of learning
Simple techniques for moving your photography from short-term to long-term memory We all have images forever embedded in our long-term memory: a childhood photo, our high school prom, an image from a major historical event (a recent immigration photo of a young father and his daughter lying dead in the Rio Grande or a shot from 9/11 of people fleeing
Let’s talk about quick reads. First of all, what is a quick read? You may call them another name – sidebar, secondary coverage, mod, even side salad. No matter what they are called, they have an objective; tell a story or give more information about a story in short, digestible bits. Given that the readers of 2020 want their information
Every year, the process of creating the yearbook for the next year begins. So much time and effort go into the planning, organizing, collaborating, writing, shooting, designing – the creation – that it’s valuable to step back and discuss just whose book is it you are creating. How you view your audience and the ownership of the book greatly affects
When I worked on my first yearbook 10 years ago, one of the many unsolved mysteries was senior ads. I assumed parents would create the ad at home and send it to me with a check in plenty of time for deadline. Boy, was I wrong. Our students procrastinate, and their parents do too. Collecting senior ads became a deadline-busting,
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