More Than a Book: Making Every Moment Matter
From last year’s superheroes and comic strips to this year’s design through the decades Back to the Future style, yearbooks are more than collections of quickly forgotten moments bound in books. Yearbooks safeguard the memories of a living, breathing, student population over time. Take the time to dig out a yearbook and thumb through its pages. Find a teacher, staff member, or administrator to reach out and thank. Yearbooks are the time capsules of formidable years.
FPC Yearbook leaders Abigail Padon and Skylar Monroe were recruited into their leadership roles by Ms. Emily Royo, Yearbook teacher. “Yearbook doesn’t feel like a typical class” according to Abi and Skylar. “Yearbook is a family making a book of friends making memories. Beyond social media, yearbooks capture activities, teams, sports, clubs, and academics.”
Below are team building exercises where students worked in teams (coverage team vs design team) with editors as team captains to build a structure using found objects with one goal in mind: to make it tall. In the middle of the exercise, the advisor took both team captains (co-editors) and swapped them, putting the coverage team captain in charge of design’s structure midway through and vice versa. Students learned how to cope with changing leadership in a stressful environment, while editors learned how to jump in and lead in a situation under pressure.
