Yearbook Update

Welcome to week 25!

I’ve created a topic within classroom to view the upcoming weekly activities that we need photographers. These activities are actually few and far between so we really need to work on completing pages as early as we can as the yearbook deadline will creep up much quicker than anyone expects. Getting the work done now means less to do later.

Winter sports for JH are wrapping up which means we have a lot of pages to be competed. Spring sports for JH begin next week and HS spring sports kick off next month.

This week I outlined a timeline for what page design should take:
Day 1: Template selection and photo placement (maybe 1 extra day if photos are needed)
Day 2: Photo Captions and Headline Writing
Days 3-6: Copywriting (It takes time to conduct interviews and organize our writing. Meet in-person for interviews whenever possible to make it faster as emails take longer to respond to and follow-up questions take even longer.)
Day 7: Background (this is really the last step and shouldn’t take even a full day.)

If every student in the class stuck to this timeline and each worked a page we’d finish half the yearbook in two weeks. Students have to take ownership of the yearbook or the yearbook will suffer, as well as grades.

Please speak with your child about their contributions to the book and encourage them to make it their own. Mr. Tauscher came into the class today for a pep talk and even said completing the yearbook on time would get us a pizza party 🙂

It does appear that I need to update the gradebook for the last couple of weeks. I’ll try to have it done by end of day today.

What’s going on with Mr. Dudek?
It was my birthday on Thursday. I don’t usually make a big deal of it, don’t really know why, but there was a tremendously overwhelming amount of love shown to me from the San Tan community that makes me feel truly blessed to be among the staff here.

Have a great week Roadrunners,
~Mr. Dudek
pdudek@santancharterschool.com