12 Tips For The New Adviser

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MEET WITH YOUR ADMINISTRATOR

Meet with your principal and any assistants in the administration who have been involved with the yearbook program. Make it a priority to establish a positive and open relationship with them. Write down their expectations of you and the yearbook program. With your principal, review the contract the school has with your yearbook company. Inquire about yearbook policies at school. • Ask whether any prior review policies are in place. With prior review, administrators or others in authority who are not on the yearbook staff read everything before it goes to print. Note that this makes the school liable for content issues. Under a public forum, the yearbook is a form of student expression and students make all the decisions about the publication. • Find out about the policy for parents who do not want their students in the book and obtain any of those records. • Get approval to send all-calls and emails to parents to sell your yearbook and ads. You will be needing several ways to get the message to parents that yearbooks and ads are on sale, and these two methods work well.

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