Yearbook

What to look for in a yearbook publisher
It can be overwhelming when it comes time to accept bids for your yearbook contract. Representatives from multiple companies will often reach out to schedule

🎉 It’s Student Press Freedom Day!! 🎉
Today is a national day of action when student journalists in the United States raise awareness of the challenges they face, celebrate their contributions to

Networking with other journalism programs
It’s Scholastic Journalism Week! Follow along here on the site or subscribe to our email list for our answers to JEA’s discussion question of the

How to manage the portrait section of the yearbook
We are officially “in the thick of it” which means deadlines are whooshing past us so fast that it’s easy to feel like you’ve gotten

Everything you need to know about your student publications
When you become a journalism adviser, it can be overwhelming to jump in and realize all the little details you need to know in order

Getting to really KNOW your students
As you begin your year, focus on those relationships in your classroom. Yearbook and newspaper classes are the ultimate group project, and, let’s be honest, kids don’t know how to effectively do a group project. Heck, most adults don’t either.

Journalism Bootcamp
It can be helpful to start the year off with a few weeks of bootcamp as training for new staff and a refresher for the returning staff. I usually start this off by covering the staff manual, and then let the editors teach the rest of the topics themselves.

First Week Back
If I could bottle the energy needed to fuel the first day of school, I would sell it in bulk at Costco and make millions.

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