Once again, hosts Mike Taylor, CJE, and Jim Jordan turned it out with a yearbook webinar. Happy Headlines, Magnificent Mods: Eye-catching Design Elements in Your Yearbook focused on design. Couldn’t make it live? That’s OK – the recording is now available!
Updated by Walsworth Yearbooks The holiday season is here, but you are probably well aware that a little yearbook work needs to be mixed in with all the upcoming festivities and family time. Now is a great time to plan student life coverage for the winter break. Editors need to put into place plans to…
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.
I’m the worst teambuilder. No, really. I talk to the coaches to find out their tips and tricks, I watch other advisers and ask for advice, I LOVE game day Fridays, but I don’t do the teambuilding thing. I don’t mean to be so one-track minded, but the yearbook is always on deadline, and it’s…
Updated by Walsworth Yearbooks Grading the yearbook is difficult and often leads to more questions than answers when designing a curriculum to meet your school policy. Without traditional assignments and exams, the bulk of the grades focus on the deadlines leading up to the finished product of your yearbook. This can be achieved by dividing…
School gets back in session sometime between August 1 and Labor Day. As we get back to our classrooms and our staffs are back in school full time, consider putting these systems in place to get you and your staff off to the strongest possible start for the 2022 year. 1. System of Communication In…
Most students get to keep their homework private between themselves and their teacher. It’s a learning experience, and if they miss a step in a math equation or conjugate a Spanish verb incorrectly, no one else has to know. That’s not the case with yearbook. Criticism can be hurtful to students who worked so hard…
Students and teachers across the nation persevered and showcased creativity throughout this year of unprecedented challenges. Your staff proved that a non-traditional school year was anything but boring by illustrating stories and events while bringing the yearbook to life. Now is the exciting time to prepare to reveal all your hard work on yearbook distribution…
It’s always just a little bit difficult to get back in the groove after returning from Winter Break. You’ve been hanging around, staying up late and sleeping in, doing as little as possible, playing hours of video games, bingeing on every show you can. But now it’s time to get back on the horse and…
Being a boss and friend with your yearbook staff can be a tough balancing act that can take a couple of tries to get down. Because you have likely worked with some members before you were editor and others may be new to staff, each member will need something a little different from you. You…
I have been schooled. I attended the Becky Tate School of Google Forms. If you know Becky Tate, the yearbook adviser of Shawnee Mission North High School in Shawnee, Kansas, or if you know me, you understand that getting us to focus long enough to teach each other something is a miracle. But we did…
