October is an exciting and sometimes overwhelming month for yearbook programs. By now, your team has found its rhythm, your theme is taking shape, and your school’s fall events are in full swing. But, between homecoming, spirit week, and mid-semester deadlines, it’s easy for yearbook tasks to slip through the cracks.

Every October, Yearbook Week reminds us that the yearbook is a historical record of life! It is a school community comprehensively expressed in a page, a photo, a memory, uniting into one creative story.

Creating a yearbook is much more than designing pages and meeting deadlines. For students, it’s a real-world training ground where they learn to lead, collaborate, problem-solve, and persevere. The skills they develop in the yearbook room often shape how they approach future challenges in college, the workplace, and beyond.