Organizing Your School Yearbook Project

Recruit a School Yearbook Staff and Assign Roles

Whether you’re working with students or a group of parent volunteers, you’ll want them to be enthusiastic and motivated. Here are some ideas for recruiting a yearbook staff:

• Advertise for your positions and require that students complete an application.
• Interview each applicant. Involve your editor if you have one.
• Provide the applicant or volunteer with as much information as possible about what is expected of each staffer.

Determine Your Yearbook Budget and Sales Plan

• Calculate your school yearbook expenses (cost to print the book, supplies and more).
• Determine how much revenue you need from sales.
• Decide the price per yearbook and whether you’ll use fundraising to offset the cost. View fundraising ideas
• Establish a school yearbook sales plan.

Define a Yearbook Theme and Complete the Ladder Diagram

• Brainstorm yearbook theme ideas. View a list of sample yearbook themes
• Determine the order of your pages by using the ladder diagram.

Take Yearbook Photos and Write Content for the Yearbook

• Assign photographers to events and ask them to take notes on what they’re photographing.
• Assign editors to write stories, headlines and photo captions for each section of the yearbook.

Design Yearbook Pages

• Select templates for each section.
• Alter existing templates to fit your needs.
• Add photos, text and creative elements to the page.