Leadership
In the yearbook classroom, organization is key to making sure every event and story is captured. To keep everything on track, we put together a calendar with sports checklists, ensuring we gather the right content for each spread on time. Writing captions and stories is just as important, helping to bring photos to life with the emotions and moments behind them. Using Monarch can be tricky, so we also created a cheat sheet to make designing pages easier and more efficient. Every step in the process helps us create a yearbook that truly reflects the memories of the year.
Oliva Ferguson, myself, and Leyla Kljajic working on our index getting ready for our final deadline
Working as a team plays a big role in the classroom when working on the yearbook. Whether it is getting photos, writing stories and captions, and even completing deadlines. By working as a team of the three of us we have come up with many efficient ways to not only teach our staff but also allow all of the time to get to know everyone in class. Sometimes we would do fun Fridays where our teacher would bring board games, we had a pizza party before our exams to celebrate our second deadline being complete early, and for Valentine's Day we made pancakes and celebrated our final deadline being complete.
Over the Summer Olivia Ferguson, Ana Hernandz and my self attended MIPA's summer journalism workshop. Together we put together a staff challenge submission, which has really helped us with teaching our staff how to write stories, captions, and how to use InDesign. If you click on the link it will take you to the presentation that we submitted.
Here are some examples of what we include in our staff challenge. We used these materials to teach our staff how to write stories and captions. Also included a cheat sheet that my coeditor Olivia Ferguson made on how to use InDesign. We also have made a Calander for each sport season so we could know when our staff would need to go to sporting events and take photos. By making all of these resources it helped us teach our staff how to work efficiently and help us complete our book.
Since my freshman year I have always had some aspect in the business side of our yearbook whether it was placing the ads on the pages or even selling them. I can definitely say that it is a great part about being on staff, but it can also be tolling when people say NO most of the time. To help to those NOs into YES's I created this flyer to send to businesses and home to parents over the past 2 years.
Along with sending out these flyers I sent emails out to our senior parents if we had their email on file through coverage report. By sending the emails to the parents I sold over $5,000 in senior ads in little over one week.
This is the latest amount since publishing the website in February 2025.
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