As we get closer to the holidays, here’s another fun story to remind you just how special yearbooks can be. The 2016 yearbook staff at Walsworth Yearbooks school Windsor High School in Windsor, California, had a braille version of their book printed for blind student Maycie Vorreiter. Vorreiter had always ordered a yearbook, but needed her brother to read it …
A writing assignment for an AP Literature class turned into a heartfelt essay about the meaning of yearbook. Emily Fogleman spent three years on the yearbook staff at Southern Alamance High School in Graham, North Carolina, serving as editor-in-chief in 2016, her senior year. Last spring, her AP Literature class was assigned to write an essay in the style of …
If you were a visitor to Steven Jay Thor’s yearbook room over the course of his career as a yearbook adviser, chances are you probably remembered it. And remembered him. Whether it was the life-sized posters adorning the walls, or the souvenir Thor’s hammer given to him as a gift by his students, when you walked into Mr. Thor’s room …
Growing up, Renee Burke was always teaching or being a role model for her two younger sisters. While in college she was a swimming instructor for kids and adults, taught reading at an adult literacy program and worked at a Title 1 Extended Day program. Burke, a 2015 JEA Distinguished Adviser, knew she wanted to be a journalism teacher, but …
A passion for storytelling combined with a love of learning led Emily Arnold, CJE, on a roundabout path to become the yearbook adviser at Haltom High School in Haltom City, Texas, and a 2015 JEA Rising Star award winner.
An NSPA Best of Show award is a big deal, especially when you produce a middle school yearbook that comes in eighth against other high school yearbooks in the competition. But that’s what happened to the 2012 Scrapbook from Westfield Middle School.
Has your yearbook staff thought about turning the halls at school into a spooky haunted house over the next couple weeks?
If not, there might still be time to do so. The staff should have a great time creating the haunted house and it’s a chance to raise some money for yearbook at the same time.
Love is in the air everywhere on Valentine’s Day, and today of all days is when the perfect gift idea can be priceless.
This month, and this day, can be the perfect time to run special promotions of the yearbook.
The yearbook staff at Claremont High School in Claremont, Calif., has been using the fun idea of staff socks up on the wall to spread cheer around the yearbook room.
As a team-building exercise, staff members slip encouraging and lighthearted notes and thoughts into other staffer’s sock.
The latest entry in our web series of marketing tips, Why Didn’t I Think of That, is focused on a creative way to draw attention to your yearbook sales table or kiosk.
The yearbook staffs at Olathe North High School and Kokomo High School got their school mascots to appear at the sales table during registration/open house type events. And the results were positive.