1. 2 When in Latin Class: Situational Shooting Tips photo by: Elizabeth Blanton, St. John’s School, Houston, TX

2. 2.1 Student Life and Style Student life covers activities and lifestyles in and out of school that directly affects lives of students. This is a nice example of a layout that is about a topic of interest to teenagers, and how life is for them at this point in their lives, but it is not actually about school … and that’s OK! Stuff like this will be what really catches your eye and brings back memories when you are looking at your book in 20 years.

3. 2.2 A+ Academics Academics covers curriculum-related experiences, wherever they take students. I like how they’ve used the contents of the dominant photo to come up with their headline. They are telling about what they learned in a fun and interesting way.

4. 2.3 A Good Sport Sports covers interscholastic competition [teams and individual sports] and personal athletic activities that students are involved in. Example of a cut out background (cob) Nice play on words.

5. 2.4 The Club Beat Clubs covers the activities of school groups, emphasizing the value of membership and experiences. It’s ok to put text on top of photos. This line/arrow element helps draw your eye from the dominant photo to the top of the next grouping of photos. Also note that this double page spread is not laid out left to right … it’s ok to do that from time to time to mix things up!

6. 2.5 People Skills People records the school population by including portraits of students, faculty and staff. Features are provided on portrait pages to expand coverage.

7. 2.5 People Skills Group shots should be cropped at the waist of the front row and just above the heads of the back row and displayed large enough to clearly see the faces.

8. Gallery photo by: April Dowling, Skyline Schools, Pratt, KS

9. Gallery photo by: Ashley Hensley, Duncanville High School, Duncanville, TX

10. Gallery photo by: Kristen Lane, High School of Technology, Gastonia, NC

11. Gallery photo by: Amanda Hale, Bettendorf High School, Bettendorf, IA It is nice to include pictures other than action shots, this gives you some story before and after …

12. Gallery photo by: Miguel Trejo, Modesto High School, Modesto, CA

13. Gallery photo by: Jacob Peterson, Pine View High School, St. George, UT

14. Gallery photo by: Madison McElroy, Bryant High School, Bryant, AR

15. Gallery photo by: Carl Grimes, Frisco High School, Frisco, TX

16. Gallery photo by: Charlene Lee, Walnut High School, Walnut, CA