Editing, Leadership and team building

Leadership & Team Building

From early mornings to late nights and food runs. You really create a bond with your staff whether it's yearbook or newspaper or another publication. Having these people by your side feels like having a built in best friend and a safe haven. The editors and my adviser always meet before we have our boot camp just to set ideas and goals, and changes we want to make before the school year starts.

Boot Camp

Before the year starts we do a three to four day's camp. We meet with the upcoming staff and teach them about photojournalism, writing and reporting throughout those days. For the mini lessons we as editors teach it so writing and reporting is taught by our copy editor. Photo editor teaches them about photos. We also have a bootcamp scavenger hunt, where we go around the school and take photos of different things.

Staff Activities

With my other editors we try to have small parities such as secret Santa. We also have photo of week. Through the months we have staffer of the month, and design of month. We vote on staffer of month as a whole and the design editor and photo editor choose who has done the best work that week.

During a deadline week me and my editors were not able to be at school to edit spreads. The reason was because we had a school shooter threat in our community and was on a hold for a couple hours. Although nothing happened all after school activities were cancelled. We gathered together and decided to put Walsworth on my tv. We were working until 10:30pm.

The Ladder

The Ladder is our yearbook on a big board. I try to organize it in the beginning of the year just so the staff can look at whatever they need to.

How it works

The first thing we have which is the page number we also have different colored magnets which is the section ex: fall, winter, spring.

The magnets reassemble at which stage the spread is at. Yellow means it is proofed, Green is submitted, Red which is not on the board means the designer has missed the deadline and we are down one spread.

The 2nd column is who is designing the spread.

The 4th column is the topic of the spread weather it would be academic, a profile or showstopper.

The middle is the deadline date. We usually put the date a week before the actual Walsworth deadline date. For the staffers to have spreads done so that next week it is all editing.

Editing

This is our design checklist we go through this on every page. Every editor has there own checklist for them to go through, me and my adviser are the final to approval to submit the spread.

This is our senior tribute tracker. I made this last year so I could see all the students that were completely done and their parents approved the way it was designed. We continue to use it this year, it just gave me a sense of where I was at with the designing the tribute's. It gave us information on the name the parent's email and the date approved.

This is our coverage planner at the end of each deadline our reference editor goes through every page tells us who's been quoted and pictured, also pictured as a dominate. The x's by their name tell us that. We try to get everyone in the yearbook at least twice.