Section Editors

Section Editor(s) General

Design editors make the yearbook happen. These staffers are the creative geniuses, shoulders to cry on, daily motivators and task masters. They carry out the EICs vision and make it come alive for their staff. As middle management, this group fulfills a leadership and worker function. The attitudes and work ethic of the section editors impacts the rest of the staff. Meets deadlines by working with the photo editors and their section.

Specific responsibilities: • Study the Style Manual. Create “reminder cards” for your staffers with fonts and sizes, spacing, etc. and put them on their desk/table or computers. Quiz each other until it is automatic. • Create a mini-Work Flow chart for your section that supports the EICs deadlines. • Attend all Work Nights. • Update Trello with descriptions as soon as work begins on a spread. List people being interviewed and pictures needed. If a specific dominant will need to be taken, tell

ME1 and the Photo Editors. Once the spread is done, be sure to put a screenshot of it on Trello. • Whenever absent from class, be sure to designate someone else in the section to check in with everyone else and/ or the EICs. • Model the use of class time as “work on yearbook” time.

Regularly doing your homework or working on other classes is frowned upon. Your section will model what you do. • Teach your section about good design. Show them spreads or pages from magazines or web sites, cool photos or logos. Work hard to balance helping, encouraging and inspiring as opposed to criticizing, changing or stifling their creativity. It can be a tough thing, use the managing editors and EICs. They’ve been in your shoes. • Love your section. Make them feel special. Many of them are just starting out and are REALLY excited. Make them feel they belong! Create name plates for their “spot.”