Work-night meals serve as a way for staff members to be a family. Time after dinner is used to work on completing the deadlines at hand. Massy is committed to meeting each of the deadlines the printer imposes. The yearbook is all about following the process. My kids know the deadline is do or die.
Massy studies designs to keep up with print publication trends.
It benefits her students and those who attend workshops where she speaks. She buys magazines and tears them apart for design ideas, and she also reads award-winning stories to her students and looks for unique angles for stories they are to cover. She said her students get ideas from her files of clips and judges comments, but they also use their creative juices to make the yearbooks the successes they are. Massy s original desire was to be a sixth grade teacher, but after a hectic visit to a room full of kindergartners during college, she decided elementary school wasn t the place for her. She changed to English education and dabbled in journalism.