What if you, the adviser, never returned from winter break? What if the editor quit? What if the photographer computer memory was erased?
These worst case scenarios are necessary for staff organization. Could anyone on your staff, whether yearbook or newspaper, pick up where you left off? Does each yearbook section editor have an organized computer file system that anyone could locate? Do the photographers have their most important images backed up on a flash drive?
Forney High School is now living without their adviser. Joy Wood unexpectedly passed away over the Christmas holiday. What if your staff had to move forward without you? Do your yearbook editors know the company rep and how to reach them? Do the newspaper editors know how to upload files to the printing company or to the online edition?
Use this week to organize or reorganize. Tragic circumstances can happen at any time to any staff. Be prepared. Practice these worst case scenarios and implement a system that maintains the performance level of you staff, no matter who or what is missing.
Prayers and condolences to the Forney High School staffs and the Wood family.
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