Your book is out and distributed, your grades ready to turn in, but there’s one last lesson to teach: How to say goodbye.

Starting out the year with a prepared staff changes everything. A summer workshop could do just that!

This blog is probably read mostly by advisers, and that makes sense. Most of our posts are aimed at advisers. But this one is a little...

It’s April, and — we hope — your book is completely (or nearly) done. Congratulations! Now it’s time to think about next year, which...

We’re big on celebrations here at United Yearbook, and we think you should be, too! Completing a yearbook and sending it off to the...

A dozen or so years ago, I had the occasion to build a house on a small lake. The location was idyllic. It was the home of my dreams. And...

One of our fundamental principles here at UYB is that a yearbook should inclusively tell the story of the entire school and not leave...

Love is in the air. Spring. Hearts. Cupids. Young love. Old love. For such a short month, February really packs a punch, centered around...

I’ll never forget when the Cheer spread created drama for my yearbook staff. It was subtle at first. It was based around the school...

In our last post, we talked about working together as a team, and made the point that we aren’t all the same, which means (a) we can’t...

Before an advisor can think about pulling together all the different pieces that make a yearbook, they need to think about pulling a...

In a time when almost all of us walk around with high-quality cameras in our pockets, students have hundreds of photos on their phone,...

Almost every school has multiple cultures and subcultures, whether they involve race and ethnicity, gender identity, socio-economic...

You’ve probably heard the old saying, “A picture is worth a thousand words.” It is true that when you open a yearbook, the first place...

We have talked before about how a yearbook is a story, the story of this academic year at this school in this town. Your yearbook staff...

So many different kinds of pictures are needed for the yearbook! How in the world can the hundreds and thousands of pictures taken be...

Creating layouts and templates that look great and effectively tell a story is a lot like being the director of a movie: You might have...

As a teacher or yearbook adviser, organization and clarity are crucial in every step of the instruction process.

When leading a yearbook team, flexibility is a must. Advisors need to make sure their instructions are both clear and tailored, that way...

But that first question is a why question, and a why question should get a why answer…and trust isn’t usually based on a list of services.