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Honor teachers with an environmental portrait assignment

Environmental portraits capture a person in their surroundings.

Get recognition for your students’ outstanding photography

Great photography is crucial to a fantastic yearbook. No matter where you are in the production process, photo skills need to continue to be improved and reinforced. There are also numerous school

The “elements” of sharing

Need help with something? Just ask an expert: “How’d you do that?”

Sharing best practices is a time-honored tradition among yearbook advisers. The spring edition of elements magazine answers

10 steps to an awesome distribution day party

With a little planning on your part, you can organize a yearbook distribution day party for fun – and profit! Whether your book delivers in the spring, summer, or fall, the distribution party is a

Yearbook staff applications are valuable recruiting tools

Because being on the yearbook staff can be like having a job, consider requiring students to submit an application to join, even if you have open enrollment and accept everyone who applies.

7 superb ways to sell next year’s yearbook NOW!

Lancaster High School yearbook staff

Yearbook adviser Colleen Wenger at Lancaster High School in Ohio recommends these 7 steps to presale next year’s yearbooks during your spring distribution party.

Put the YEA! in yearbook

Producing a yearbook is the largest group project in the school and it often seems like there is no light at the end of the tunnel. This is especially true for the yearbook staff. Everyone has one

8 ways to make sure your index is not 'just a list of names'

Great Falls High School

When the yearbook arrives, the first thing most people do is look for themselves. The index plays a vital role as a reader service and assists in locating

Studio Works: stay-at-home solution

by Bernadine Judson, yearbook adviser Etiwanda High School, California

Juggling the demands of teaching, advising and parenting is daunting. What to do? Wave your magic wand. Voila! StudioWorks,

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