12 Tips For The New Adviser

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CREATING A YEAR-LONG CALENDAR As a yearbook adviser, you’ll need a calendar to track all the moving parts to this project. At minimum, be sure to include: • Cover/endsheet deadlines • Page submission deadlines (and then your mini deadlines) • Senior portrait day • School picture day • School picture retake day • Ad sales deadlines • Book sales deadlines • Work days, nights, weekends • Club picture day • National, state and local yearbook competitions • Delivery day (the day the books arrive from the printer) • Distribution day (the day you hand out books to students) • Workshops (summer, fall and spring) Meet with the student activities director to get yearbook-related events on the school’s master calendar, starting with picture day.

Photo by Peyton Sims

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