This year, your yearbook coverage will undoubtedly look different.
Normally, schools would use their ladder from previous years and that would serve as a general outline for what pages to include in the book. With events, field trips, sports, and dances either canceled or postponed, you and your team will have a greater degree of freedom and creativity to collaborate on the content you provide your school community with. It is important that we document this historic time and what better way to do that than to include events that don’t normally receive coverage and tell the stories that are happening in our local cities?
The end of the last school year looked quite a bit different. From Drive-Thru graduations to Car parades. It’s a great opportunity to share a few of the Spring events that didn’t make it to last years book. Here are some of the moments you can add to your yearbook this year:
Drive-In Graduation/Cap and Gown Distribution
Yearbook Pick-Up
Car Parades
Memorial Day with the Family
College Acceptance Page
Messages from Class of 2020 Seniors/Graduates to the Class of 2021
As our pandemic continues, it also is a great opportunity to show how the new school year started and how different the school year will be. These are some of the moments you can add to your yearbook:
Students hard at work (Summer jobs/community service)
Summer Vacations/Staycations
4th of July family Celebrations
New Family traditions (outside movie nights, cooking meals, board games, etc.)
Socially distanced events (Birthdays, Retirements, etc.)
Get the Community Involved!
This year, you can take advantage of getting your community involved and students can learn more about each other’s everyday lives. Below are some ideas for pages that can replace your normal event pages:
Virtual Spirit Days/Weeks
Election Coverage
Who’s behind the mask? – Mask Fashion
Physical Fitness- With sports on hold, what are students doing to exercise?
New Hobbies
Student Polls (Favorite TV Shows, Favorite Food, etc)
Pet Pages
Corona Coverage
This year, you will have the opportunity to document history as it unfolds. We have templates within our EdOnline software that you can use and modify. You can add pages on Corona Coverage to include:
How does the school re-open and what are some challenges faced along the way?
How are sports brought back?
Is there a model of hybrid learning (both virtual and in-class learning) and what does this look like?
Zoom Classrooms
Unexpected Changes to the school environment (masks, partitions, hand sanitizing stations, socially distanced lunch breaks, etc.)
Interviews with local heroes who have been on the front lines (teachers, hospital workers, food service workers, grocery store clerks, etc.)
There are so many possibilities when it comes to your yearbook coverage this year. The sky is the limit! There are countless stories to tell and special and unique memories being made. Your yearbook has always served as a way to preserve memories, but yearbooks are also historical documents. This year will certainly go down in history and you will play a key part in telling your community’s story!