ENTREPRENEURSHIP: LEADERSHIP
When I get to school, I go straight to Room 029. I get to school twenty minutes early so I can outline what I'll be explaining to my staff that day and get some extra work time in.
Yearbook starts at 9:27 am. It ends at 10:11. That's only 44 minutes, and we've got a lot of work to do.
Mondays are assignment days. We meet at the front of the room to come up with spread ideas for the following week: two spreads a week. After we've successfully added two new spreads to the ladder, we break and all shift to the back of the room, where the computers are located, and get to work.
My advisor (Mrs. Blayney) and I have worked really hard to perfect a chronological yearbook. We've only been doing it for three years, but we've already seen what things do and don't work. The summer before my senior year, when I was to be Editor-in-Chief, I came up with a lot of new ways to make the process more successful.
Every staff member is responsible for a specific club, sport, or activity, similar to the way a more traditional yearbook works. The blame falls on their shoulders if their particular activity isn't adequately covered. After a huge fiasco junior year when a musical group was infuriated for not being mentioned in the book, I had to make sure all our bases were covered.
Each staff member also has weekly assignments, different from the yearly assignments just described. These include Student Life coverage or events that are unique, such as the dodgeball tournament. Mrs. Blayney and I frequently check on our staff members to ensure work is being completed.
Before the year started, our staff number stood at around six. In order to build my staff, I had to recruit students from around the school to join and skip the journalism prerequisite. It's been immensely helpful having more than just six staff members, but now my staff is slightly unknowledgeable. Sometimes it's frustrating having to take time out of a precious 44 minutes to explain the proper way to write a caption, but it's a price I guess I have to pay in a school whose journalism department is desperately unknown and underappreciated.
One of the hardest parts about being Editor this year is building the foundation for future yearbooks. I've helped build up this book significantly (last year was the first year in known history that The O-Book received an award for Theme Development) and few of my staff members are as inclined to layout, editing and leadership as me. I'm trying to train some of my younger staff members in the hopes of fostering them into future editors, but it's difficult giving up some of my precious layouts to rookies...but I want to make this program grow, not plateau from here.
Now that I've been an Editor for three years, this book is like a child to me. I want to see it prosper.
Yearbook starts at 9:27 am. It ends at 10:11. That's only 44 minutes, and we've got a lot of work to do.
Mondays are assignment days. We meet at the front of the room to come up with spread ideas for the following week: two spreads a week. After we've successfully added two new spreads to the ladder, we break and all shift to the back of the room, where the computers are located, and get to work.
My advisor (Mrs. Blayney) and I have worked really hard to perfect a chronological yearbook. We've only been doing it for three years, but we've already seen what things do and don't work. The summer before my senior year, when I was to be Editor-in-Chief, I came up with a lot of new ways to make the process more successful.
Every staff member is responsible for a specific club, sport, or activity, similar to the way a more traditional yearbook works. The blame falls on their shoulders if their particular activity isn't adequately covered. After a huge fiasco junior year when a musical group was infuriated for not being mentioned in the book, I had to make sure all our bases were covered.
Each staff member also has weekly assignments, different from the yearly assignments just described. These include Student Life coverage or events that are unique, such as the dodgeball tournament. Mrs. Blayney and I frequently check on our staff members to ensure work is being completed.
Before the year started, our staff number stood at around six. In order to build my staff, I had to recruit students from around the school to join and skip the journalism prerequisite. It's been immensely helpful having more than just six staff members, but now my staff is slightly unknowledgeable. Sometimes it's frustrating having to take time out of a precious 44 minutes to explain the proper way to write a caption, but it's a price I guess I have to pay in a school whose journalism department is desperately unknown and underappreciated.
One of the hardest parts about being Editor this year is building the foundation for future yearbooks. I've helped build up this book significantly (last year was the first year in known history that The O-Book received an award for Theme Development) and few of my staff members are as inclined to layout, editing and leadership as me. I'm trying to train some of my younger staff members in the hopes of fostering them into future editors, but it's difficult giving up some of my precious layouts to rookies...but I want to make this program grow, not plateau from here.
Now that I've been an Editor for three years, this book is like a child to me. I want to see it prosper.