Who doesn’t love a good folder hack? Utilizing a folder system for your staff to keep important documents will provide you and your team with a one-stop-shop for all things yearbook. Here are some essentials you need to consider for your staff folders. Folder Types Folders with pockets are ideal for this system since you will be storing sticky notes
Before the school year starts, considering school supplies is a must. Planning for activities, events and other miscellaneous needs for your staff is a great place to begin when stepping back into your classroom. Here is a list of some supplies to consider ordering before the first day. Anchor Charts: Having visual representations of classroom rules, style guide snippets and
During your much-needed summer vacation you may get an urgent email from your new school’s front office staff. You have dozens of yearbook boxes stacked in the front lobby and you need to take care of them ASAP. Where do you begin? For the new adviser with a summer/fall delivery, this is one of the first tasks to manage while
One of the most important components of running a yearbook program is attending and photographing events. Using Google Calendar for event scheduling is a free and effective way to ensure coverage. Here is one way to use Google Calendars for scheduling photo assignments. Establish Google Account Permissions If you are a Google Suite school, talk with your administration and IT
Managing cameras can be a daunting task. Amid mandatory professional development, countless emails and prepping for the new yearbook, setting up your room for your staff can be a challenge. Keeping your technology safe and secure is a top priority when considering the setup of your space. Here are some tips and tricks to get your room ready for the
Now that you’ve finished the 2021 book, there is still so much you can do before school is out. I just got my first printed yearbooks in the mail this week! We all thought it might be impossible to create a book during a full year of living through a pandemic, but you and your staff stepped up to the
Yearbook staffs have put in blood, sweat and tears to finish their yearbooks this year, and those books are starting to arrive! However, the important ritual of yearbook signing is still up in the air. We know you don’t want to miss this important tradition, so until students can get together to actually sign each other’s yearbooks, we found another
One of my most significant failures as an adviser was that I never put into place a strong system that helped me manage the holiday deadline season well. For too many years, all of the 35 I was an adviser, I let December deadlines manage my life and they drained too much of the joy of the holidays. Don’t let
With many schools just past that first big yearbook deadline, now is the perfect time to refocus on storytelling. In this week’s episode of Ask Mike, host Mike Taylor, CJE, speaks to two advisers who lead their students to tell great stories. Tiffany Kopcak Tiffany Kopcak teaches her students to eavesdrop. Really. That’s how the yearbook staff at Colonial Forge
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