Timeline And Resource Guide For Mentors

OCTOBER CHECKLIST AND RESOURCES Can you believe it’s October already? That first deadline is fast approaching. Make time to celebrate National Yearbook Week! Invite your mentee to join you in the celebration. In 1987, President Ronald Reagan declared the week of Oct. 4 each year as “National Yearbook Week.” It’s a week to spread awareness and celebrate all that you and your staff are doing! Check out walsworthyearbooks.com for all the details on all we have coming up for you this week. The main goal of October is to put you and your staff on track to meet that first deadline. OCTOBER CHECKLIST Theme words and design . Is your theme set and have you written first drafts of your theme copy and designed your cover, end sheet, title page, opening spreads and a divider? Get that ladder done . Is your ladder complete? Do you know where everything will go? Are you certain you have not left anything out you need to cover? Have you left room for topics that may come up that you have not thought about yet? Understand your student portrait strategy . Have your student and faculty portraits been taken, including all make up days? Have you received those portraits back from the photographer and uploaded them so they can be flowed on the individual spreads? Often these mug pages are the first ones to be submitted

“ The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.” Benjamin Disraeli

on the first deadline, so it’s important to stay on top of this process. Work with your Walsworth representative to set up this process and dates necessary to meet your deadlines for these pages. AND RESOURCES

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