The Colophon - Balfour Yearbooks Blog

As students work on yearbook pages, they’ll need to learn new vocabulary. Yearbook terminology will help them understand the anatomy of a spread.

Double-page spread - Two facing pages in the

While advisers would love to have an all-journalism schedule, that’s not always reality. Often teachers juggle multiple other classes like English, history or technology. Eight advisers share their

From time to time we will feature guest columns from Balfour advisers. Here's our first guest post of 2018 from Foster High School adviser Danielle Bell. Danielle shares advice for new and seasoned

The sections of a yearbook arrange the story of the year. But if you’ve always run the same sections, maybe it’s time for a change. Here are three formats for organizing the book.

For Nike, it’s a swoosh. For FedEx, it’s bold letters forming an arrow in the white space. For Starbucks, it’s a lovely siren on a green, black and white circle. These companies’ logos are iconic

With classes, clubs and sports back in action, there’s no time to lose. We need to train our yearbook troops and get them out in the field. If you’re like most yearbook staffs, you have a few newbies

When she signed up for yearbook staff in eighth grade, Katie Moreno never imagined she was plotting her career path. As one of the Journalism Education Association’s Rising Stars for 2018, Moreno

Whether you’ve been in school a few weeks or you’re just starting, it’s time to move into yearbook mode. The beginning of the year offers a chance to get organized, go over basics and make a plan for

There are a number of benefits of goal setting. First, it gives you and your staff a track to run on so it is clear where you have to go. By deciding what you want to do, you are forced to set

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Whether you have a few days left or another month (sorry, Pacific Northwest!), let’s check off that to-do list before trekking off to summer adventures.