Author name: Lynn

When you start your journey as a yearbook creator, you’re not thinking about the end—you’re just trying to get through each step, learning the process, and probably having a few moments of being completely overwhelmed. (I’ve mentioned before: it’s basically eight jobs rolled into one title that doesn’t even begin to define the role.) After […]

There are three kinds of “over” for a yearbook advisor/creator each year. Each one seems like it’s the end, but it’s not truly over until all three “overs” have happened. There’s the over that happens when the yearbook is submitted. There’s the over when the yearbook arrives, and you finally get to see it in

This year marks five years since I left my volunteer gig as Yearbook Creator—a position I held for 13 years. I even stayed on one year after my kids had left the school. I loved it—through the stress, the frustration, and the overwhelming task of gathering all the content, designing the pages, making sure I

Many yearbook advisers are teachers or club leaders and have a great structure and plan for the yearbook. Then there are some of us who are parent volunteers doing a book alone, or sort of alone – see a previous piece about crowdsourcing and enlisting other parents to help get the photos you need. Here’s

The yearbook has been submitted—and maybe even delivered and in your hands—so now what? You could plan a celebration and a big distribution event, but if you’re like me, so many regular life activities have either been on hold or continued without you, especially in those final weeks when deadlines were looming and the project

Mistakes happen, errors are missed, and typos are made! We don’t intentionally do it—we have a lot of small and large details to keep track of and proofread. Unfortunately, sometimes, the people who are the ones affected aren’t so understanding, so we do our best to make it right, but we have limitations and ways

As yearbook creators, advisors, and designers, we know our yearbooks are historical records. While we often get caught up in the details—the big picture of a theme and capturing all the events of the year—a significant secondary benefit is the recording of history: the news, styles, trends, and many special moments in time. But when

We have many posts on ways to stay organized—some are really helpful, like using a ladder so you don’t run out of pages—but others are more like guides or suggestions. Everyone approaches making a yearbook differently, and we’re here to share some of our knowledge and the best ideas we’ve learned over the years. Through

I was an elementary school yearbook creator for 13 years. I spent thirteen years creating yearbooks for grades 2-5, sometimes grades 1-5 (our district tried a new configuration during overcrowding), and five of those years, I also did a yearbook for PreK-1. Then, for 4 of those years, some overlapping with the other 2, I

Does your yearbook company send you a Startup Packet every year? What is in a startup packet? Do you use a startup packet – You should! Every year the yearbook company would send a Startup Packet with a bunch of booklets, samples, instructions, and a bunch of other useful and fun things. The packet would