The Colophon - Balfour Yearbooks Blog

Oops. You’ve inherited a staff straight from the movie “Mean Girls.” Now, what? The yearbook classroom should be run like a business. Students are learning valuable life skills and job

Many people think summer isn’t a good time for networking. They assume because people tend to go on vacations, attend more personal than school-related activities and focus on family and friends,

3-2-1…takeoff!

“It’s a wrap!” Wouldn’t it be nice to say some magic words and have everything come together at the end of the school year? Voila! The end.

Through interactive experiences that motivate and engage us, we learn not only the facts, but also the important, underlying hows and whys. Our new training program, Balfour Adviser Academy, offers

If you haven’t already, now is the time to plan to take your staff to a summer yearbook workshop. Attending training in the summer not only gives the students a jump start on the book, it also

Whether your yearbook is spring, summer or fall delivery, soon you will begin thinking about next year’s staff (if you haven’t already).

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

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.

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