Share the (Balfour) love

On Valentine’s Day, Susannah Keneda urged her fellow advisers to share the love for their yearbook reps. Here’s what happened on the Balfour Advisers Facebook group. This post originally ran in the

Adviser looks to students’ strengths when building leadership teams

Flower Mound High School’s yearbook editors Keerthana Ramesbabu, Sophie Slaughter, Elizabeth Roeling, Alison Cushman, Isabel Quevedo and Jennifer Nichols.

Send your best angles and expressions for the Great Shot Photo contest

The Great Shot Photo Contest is back with two categories: Expressions and Unusual Angles. We’re looking for your best images of reactions and unique perspectives. Here are a few tips to help you take

School Spotlight: Early start on next book sets stage for success

From time to time we spotlight Balfour advisers and schools. In this guest post from Shawnee Heights adviser Jeni Daley, Jeni shares her six-month production schedule after the current book is

It’s Elementary: Covers

As part of a series for elementary school advisers, we’ll focus on topics that concern K-5 yearbooks.

Five ways to boost last-chance sales

Whether you’re wrapping up the book for a spring delivery or halfway finished for a fall arrival, it’s likely you’ll want to boost yearbook sales. Here are five ways to drum up excitement for

Big school, small book

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From time to time we feature Balfour advisers and schools. In this guest post, Klein Forest High School adviser Sue Blackmon offers advice for big schools with small books.

CSPA honors 12 yearbooks with Crown awards

The Columbia Scholastic Press Association honored 12 Balfour yearbooks with Crown awards in New York City recently. The Crown Awards recognize the top student publications in news, magazine,

How to fill in the blanks (pages)

As you’re scrambling to finish pages, it never fails that something goes awry. An annual event gets canceled because of weather. Clubs end up not doing anything. The cool idea in September fails to

Should you ban phones in your classroom?

Are your staffers a little distracted by text messages, Snapchats and Instagram posts? Yearbook advisers weigh in on banning cell phones in their classrooms

The long and short of it: hyphens and dashes

Colons can be confusing. It’s easy to go overboard with commas or parentheses. But dashes—those beautiful, thin lines that suggest a subtle pause or an abrupt change in thought—can be a smart

Avoid conflict by establishing a student media policy

Do you give refunds? How do you handle mistakes? Do you allow song lyrics in senior ads? What about photos of students in bikinis, holding red cups or carrying shotguns? A student media policy will

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