Caught Our Eye

Many voices – The underlying challenge of every book is telling the story from the students’ perspectives; this includes capturing the voices of as many different students as possible. The Stinger staff successfully accomplished this using a combination of tactics. First, they incorporated a large number of pictures throughout the book that were well captioned, always identifying all students and their year in school. Additionally, the Academic STEM spread highlighted an impressive 30 students and staff. Finally, they used a consistent design element on every content spread that included students headshots and quotes, where each student was asked to respond to a particular prompt depending on the page. This allowed the staff to collect nearly 150 students’ voices that helped to explain their theme, “This is how we Wynne.”

– written by Brad Cook, adviser, Gresham High School