Propp’s Propaganda

My collegue and I are advising the yearbook next year.  Neither one of us has done this before so I fear it will be like “the blind leading the blind.”  This week we had our first meeting with the publisher.  The repeated message was: “This is a lot of work.”  After the meeting I was very overwhelmed.  We are starting early in order to save money which will allow the price of each book to be more affordable.  Five very reliable young girls attended the meeting, these are students that I imagine will stick with this until the end. That made me very pleased.  However, I couldn’t help but think we need more students to be involved.  How do I recruit them?  We need, organizers, typists, creative thinkers, artists and photographers.  I also need advice from anyone out there who has ever advised yearbook before.  Help!

As a teacher, how do you feel if someone says: “I heard you have favorites”.  This idea has come up twice this week.  If a teacher works hard at building a rapport with students, does it mean that the students that actually respond automatically become the teacher’s favorites?  A student teacher in our school just recently went for an interview where she had to arrange in order of importance ideas that were written on cards.  She mentioned that rapport was one of those words and in this district’s mind, rapport was number one!  Perhaps this saying, ” you have favorites” comes with the profession?