Assemble a team of adults and students who are committed to creating a yearbook. In any group, there are likely to be a few people willing to give their time and energy to create a yearbook that captures the student's memories for the year.
Select a theme for the book as a way of pulling the pictures together. A book full of pictures is easy to get printed, but a yearbook should be wrapped around the heart of the school, and events of the school year. Picking a theme for the book will make design and content ideas and decisions easier.
Begin taking and collecting pictures from the beginning of the year. Planning for a yearbook can even begin in the spring of the previous school calendar year. Because many sporting events begin before the first day of school, photographers will want to prepare during the summer with photo assignments.
Set a schedule for the project, including hard and soft deadlines. To get the books printed and back to the students before the end of the year, the yearbook team must make a schedule with soft deadlines, when they want specific steps complete. The team must also set hard deadlines, or dates by which specific steps must be finished. Following a schedule throughout the year will help the team stay on track, and complete the book on time.
Contact a yearbook printer that will work with the team to print the books. With the advances in digital and online printing, some yearbook companies provide an online administrative portal. All the work is uploaded into the online version, and once the book is proofed, it is printed and returned for a flat fee. Other online DIY yearbook companies send templates that students paste their pictures into, and the book is printed from the templates. For small schools, or homeschool groups, a service such as Snapfish allows customers to go online and design the entire book digitally before submitting a purchase order.