Yearbooks remain a fantastic way for schools to remember peak moments of the school year. Students look forward to signing the autograph pages as well as seeing themselves and their favorite memories celebrated throughout the pages. But creating an unforgettable yearbook requires a dedicated staff who can bring your ideas to life. To best equip your tribe with the tools …
It may be just a few weeks later than usual but that first deadline time is here! It certainly hasn’t been easy, but you’ve got this.
Last year, I began working on a webinar called “Get Your Yearbook Show on the Road” to prepare yearbook advisers and their staffs to have maximum success on that first deadline in late October or early November. As I began to outline all that was needed to help an adviser and staff be fully ready to meet that first deadline, …
The images slid past as the Trello demonstration continued. As it came to a close, my editor-in-chief, Katie, and I made eye contact. We both had furrowed brows and scrunched noses. Finally, Katie said what I was thinking. “I still don’t get it.” Katie and I are both pen-and-paper kind of girls. We like jotting down our notes so we …
One bad habit that just drives me nuts is misplacing things. I even put my keys on a big, pink, stretchy bracelet only to get in the habit of taking it off everywhere – in the darkroom, by a computer, at the overhead projector…. Many staff members seem to have similar habits requiring them regularly to hunt for notebooks and pens.
Whether we have a pleasant or a horrible experience creating a yearbook is not influenced by our quality of layouts or photographs. Most of us can even accept it and carry on if our page software occasionally does not behave. What really makes you despise or love this whole process is how organized you are.
Our yearbook concept is not new. We are following the workshop adage: yearbooks should echo the year, the school, the students. And yet, something is changing.
Like the old saying “you can’t be too rich,” there is no such thing as being too organized. We all talk about it. But how many of us really take the steps to become organized?
Veteran advisers look back at their first year or two and wish someone had warned them about what can go wrong. Here are some of the more common issues that advisers face, and tips for avoiding or resolving them. We tried to come up with a list of the Top Ten Pitfalls to Avoid, but we can’t count, so here Mike Frazier’s article with help from advisers Renae Goldie, Amy Morgan and Danielle Bradley, and yearbook representative Karen Ray.
How many students does it take to misplace the stapler in a classroom?
One. Now multiply that by the number of students on your yearbook staff, and keeping your classroom organized will not happen unless you have a plan.
