Timeline And Resource Guide For Mentors

AUGUST/END OF SUMMER CHECKLIST AND RESOURCES Get off to a strong start. Most schools are back in session by Labor Day, but many schools are in full swing sometime in the month of August. Here are some activities to consider sharing with your mentees in August. Keep in touch and meet with your leadership team. Before school starts, set up a time to meet with your editorial leadership team to plan for start of school. You need to plan how you are going to have your staff ready to start covering the year before it starts. If your staff is untrained, you may miss crucial events that happen as summer ends and the school year begins. Review what you learned at summer workshop. Gather your workshop team to review what you learned and discuss the progress you made on theme and design elements. Discuss ways you can bring what you learned to the staff who did not attend. Find fantastic fonts. One of the easiest ways to take your book to the next level is to have a modern, contemporary font strategy. Don’t settle for bad typography. Find a font you love that has the voice of your theme. If you aren’t sure, ask someone you trust. Hold your own staff boot camp. Consider holding a staff boot camp the week before school starts. Start the training process as early as possible so the staff can start shooting photos, interviewing and covering events well right from the start. In one day at boot camp, you can cover material and train your staff in what would take a week or two of class periods after the year starts.

“ Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction.” John C. Crosby

4 Photo training is essential. Be sure your photography staff is ready to take photos before the year even begins. Have your experienced staff train your rookie photographers and get them out practicing their craft at end-of-summer training and events. CHECKLIST AND RESOURCES

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