Good Morning, Bec
I feel you! You are not alone in this. I too am another team of one(ish), juggling Yearbook with also being the team-of-one Comms/Publications/Branding go to. At a 0.9 FTE.
There is a teacher who helps take photos, and an external designer who helps with layout… but I have to be so very precise in detailing what I want on each page, I sometimes wonder if it would just be easier to put the spreads together directly (though considering the alternative, she is a godsend).
My biggest challenge is consistently having Yearbook time deprioritised. I have been lobbying, since I picked up YB in 2021, for a dedicated day (or half day!) each week, where I could be tagged as off limits for other work, but it rarely plays out. Every year I tell myself I won’t take it home, but then the last time I stuck to that, I fell 9-10 months behind on production.
If “Yearbook Production” were a dance on Dancing with the Stars, we’d all have a shiny mirror ball.
Hang in there!