(1) What is your essential question? What is the best answer to your question and why?
My EQ is "What is the best way to create a yearbook that reflects your student population?" My best answer is theme, because that is the backbone to the whole book. If you've got a great theme, it opens up the option of a highly successful yearbook.
(2) What process did you take to arrive at this answer?
Hours and hours at Yearbook Camp spent working on our theme really just showed me that it really is all about the quality of the theme. In addition, I have spent so much time looking at yearbooks, and the ones that don't succeed are often the ones without a good concept.(3) What problems did you face? How did you resolve them?
We have a lot of technical difficulties, and Mimi helped us solved those. Also, a lot of my staff and some of my editors were not motivated. I tried to get them to work a little harder, but sometimes they didn't want to have it. It was frustrating, to say the least. It generally just ended up being Mr. Strand and I working on stuff after school, and we got it done.
(4) What are the two most significant sources you used to answer your essential question and why?
Mimi Orth (my mentor), and the YBK: You Better Know Editor's Handbook. Mimi obviously just knows anything and everything about yearbook. And if she doesn't, she'll either find out for you, or figure it out right then and there. She's super patient, and very talented. I honestly don't know what I would've done without her. The handbook was kind of like Mimi when she wasn't there. It helped answer a lot of questions, provided inspiration, and fun, creative ideas for yearbook.
(5) What is your product and why?
Well, obviously, I have a yearbook. However, I learned a lot from this experience. And not just from my successes, but from my mistakes as well. I learned how to be a better leader, and definitely acquired new skills in many aspects.
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