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August 12, 2025

New school year, new us

We’ve got something exciting to share: Treering just got a bold new look.

After months of collaboration, exploration, and a lot of thoughtful design work, we’re thrilled to unveil a refreshed brand identity, one that better reflects who we are today and where we’re headed.

Turning the page

We’ve moved away from the softer, muted tones of the past and embraced a more vibrant, energetic palette that speaks to the creativity and joy at the heart of what we do.

Our new logo is a small thing that says a lot—it’s clean and modern, but it also holds meaning. The icon forms a “T” for Treering, doubles as an open book, and symbolizes our approachable, flexible platform. It’s our mission, captured in a single shape: helping people turn everyday moments into memories that last.

Why we did this

This wasn’t just about updating fonts and colors. We took a step back to reflect on who we are as a team, what makes Treering unique, and how we want to show up — for schools, parents, and now, for travel brands through Treering Memories

After 16 years of innovating how memories are captured, shared, and preserved in the school space, we’re expanding our vision. Treering is evolving into a full Memory-as-a-Service platform, extending our technology and expertise beyond yearbooks to meet the growing demand for smart, personalized memory solutions across industries. With Treering Memories, we’re bringing the same intuitive experience, powerful AI, and just-in-time printing to the travel world by helping brands turn unforgettable trips into meaningful, lasting keepsakes.

The new visual identity balances the warmth of nostalgia with a fresh, modern sensibility. Our photography style is more candid and vibrant, our typography is clean and bold, and everything is built to work seamlessly—whether in a yearbook or in a photo memory book from a travel adventure.

What’s next

We’re heading into the school year with renewed energy, and now a look that matches it. But while our visuals have changed, what we care about hasn’t. We’re still the same team, focused on helping people capture and celebrate meaningful moments with care, creativity, and technology that makes it all easier. This year, we’re rolling out smarter tools to simplify yearbook creation, along with fresh new themes designed to give schools even more ways to personalize and elevate their books. It's all part of our ongoing commitment to making yearbooking easier, more intuitive, and more inspiring for everyone involved. We can’t wait to show you what’s next. Let’s make this school year unforgettable, together.

June 16, 2025

Top 10 reasons to join Treering Yearbooks

1. No Contracts, No Commitment

We offer a $0 financial commitment to all of our school partners. There are no minimum orders, no commitments, and never any leftover books. Parents and students can purchase a copy of their yearbook directly from Treering's sales portal. We only print what’s ordered, which means there won’t be any additional cost to your school.

2. Easy, Yet Powerful Software

We make things easier on you so you're not always the last one in the building this spring. The headaches from building your portrait pages and designing your book are magically cured with powerful automated tools and template-based, drag-and-drop pages.

https://blog.treering.com/yearbook-design-software/

3. Affordable Prices

We believe that every student should have the right to celebrate their year through the culture of the yearbook. We’re democratizing the yearbook and making it affordable for everyone by investing in technology to improve efficiencies and keep costs down.

4. Personalized Pages

Ever struggle to make sure each student feels included in your yearbook? With Treering every student gets two free, uniquely printed pages, so they can fill their yearbook with personal memories. Since parents and students use our template-based software to create their own pages, there is no extra work for you, the yearbook editor. But don't worry, unless you invite them, parents and students cannot work on the yearbook itself. That's still in the hands of you and your yearbook team.

5. School Fundraiser

We're helping schools regain control of their budgets: Treering gives you the ability to add a fundraiser amount to the cost of each yearbook. We also make selling recognition ads (should you want to) super easy: just set the price per size and let parents decide if they'd like to purchase. Since we only print the books that are purchased, your fundraising efforts can fund new laptops or a STEM program rather than covering the cost of leftover books.

6. Premium Quality

All Treering yearbooks are gorgeously printed in both softcover and hardcover with upgrade options such as gold or silver foil and embossing. We laminate hardcover books and UV coat our softcover books to provide extra durability. Moments are over in seconds, but memories—and your Treering yearbook—will last forever.

7. Three-Week Turnaround

Once you've finished designing your yearbook we'll get it to you within three weeks. Period. That means you can now include (nearly) the entire year's worth of activities in the yearbook. Treering Yearbooks are printed in the USA.

8. Collaborative

Everyone’s a photographer now, right? Treering makes it easy to source photos for your yearbook from parents and students by allowing your yearbook team to create shared folders. When parents and students create their free accounts to purchase a yearbook, they can also add photos to designated folders (i.e. Fun Run). You still get to pick and choose which ones you’ll use, but you’ll have a lot more to select from.

9. Online Payments

Yearbook editors tell us how much they love to design, but how little they like to collect money for yearbook sales. Treering gives your community the ability to purchase their yearbook directly online. We’ll collect the money and keep track of sales, freeing you up to do more of what you love: making a beautiful yearbook.

10. CAT has your back

Having a great business model and product is one thing, and sometimes you need a little more. A little more help to make your yearbook experience a great one. Your Community Advocate Team (CAT) will have you covered with 100's of videos and how-to articles, along with phone and email support. No more waiting for someone to come back from vacation to help you: at Treering we have a team of passionate yearbook experts to help you whenever you might want a little extra.

June 15, 2025

Treering's collaboration tools for your yearbook

POV is more than a social media trend, it's the call to reflect the diverse perspectives and students in our halls. So, how do you capture every student in the yearbook? Here's how we help you take control of crowdsourcing and collaboration with built-in collaboration tools.

Collaborate Using Shared Folders

After you decide what content you need, we help you organize the year with shared folders. There's no limit to how many you make.

We Love This Because You Can...

  1. Create one folder per classroom teacher
  2. Share email links to sports team folders for coaches and boosters
  3. Use #photodropFriday social posts to direct submissions to an event folder

Pull photos from Social Media

After taking a pic of our loved ones, our first instinct is to post and share it on our social channels, not with the yearbook coordinator. Treering Yearbooks' Facebook and Instragram integrations make it easy for your yearbook to get social.

We Love This Because You Can...

  • Add your chaperone snaps to a shared field trip folder
  • Build custom pages using your feed

Multiple Permissions Allows for Collaboration

Collaboration tools are a major component of our yearbook software on the design side as well. Yearbook coordinators and advisers decide the size and access permissions for their teams on an individual basis (we know there's no one-size-fits-all here).

We Love This Because You Can...

  • Limit folder permissions for student yearbook team
  • Assign a page or two to parent volunteers
  • Leave notes on spread and lock completed pages
  • Partner with the school photographer for the portrait spreads
June 14, 2025

Treering yearbook printing: it lasts a lifetime

Stunning, Sturdy, Scuff-Resistant Covers

Hardcover? Check. Softcover? Yup. Soft-touch matte finish? Mais Oui! Glossy finish? For sure! Want to give your cover something a bit extra? We've got silver and gold foil to add a little more sparkle, and embossing options to add a little more lift. Whatever you and your students can dream up, we create using a superior quality laminate to protect your cover.

And they are all printed in the USA.

Completely Customizable Covers

Your cover can be as unique as your students. With the option of an 8.5x11 and 9x12 size book, you can have the flexibility to get your yearbook to look precisely how you want.

Though we have hundreds of professionally designed themes at your disposal, including our Heritage Collection, we won't limit your creativity. Hold a yearbook cover contest with your community; let your students decide what it should be. Ask your art class to come up with something representative of your year.

https://blog.treering.com/treering-heritage-covers

Sustainable Memories

In today's digital age, where everything happens on screens, it's amazing how a high-quality yearbook can seem so... special. We print better than HD quality photos on our 100 lb, sustainably sourced paper stock. Because we care about both the quality and global impact of the yearbooks we create.

Bound to Hold Your Memories Together for Lifetimes

All our yearbooks are bound with PUR Perfect adhesive to hold each page safely in place for a lifetime. Both hardcover and softcover books will stand the test of time. What's more, our softcover binding doesn't crack when you open it, meaning you can add your school name to the spine to make it look great on the shelf.

Moments are over in seconds, but memories—and your Treering yearbook—will last forever.

June 14, 2025

Treering's easy, yet powerful yearbook design software

Making a yearbook is a lot of work, but it can be fun too. We built our yearbook software to take away as much of the hard work as possible, so you and your yearbook staff can focus on the fun stuff. No more fighting with changes in portraits or keeping track of yearbook purchases; whether it's making your yearbook, managing your yearbook staff, or collaborating with your community, we eliminate the pain so you can focus on capturing your school's year in a beautiful yearbook.

Manage Your Yearbook Program Like a Pro

Call it your very own mission control. Right from your dashboard, you can see who has purchased and who hasn't. See a running total of how much money you have raised for your school throughout the year.

One mom teaching another how to upload photos while waiting in the elementary school pick up line
Even from the pickup line, you can make progress on building your yearbook.

Work from Anywhere

For the parents in your community who are on the go, they can do everything from their mobile devices. They can add photos to your community's shared folders, design their student's custom pages, and purchase their student's yearbook while waiting in the pickup line.

Assign Roles and Permissions to Your Yearbook Staff

Grant some users an all-access pass to your yearbook by making them the Chief Editor, or limit their responsibilities by making them a Staff Editor or Restricted Staff Editor. Some people on your yearbook team may only need to add photos or edit text, while others need more responsibility. The choice is yours!

Your entire yearbook staff will be able to edit only those pages you have assigned them, making it clear for the editors to understand their responsibilities and easy for you to manage in one place.

Make suggestions and share ideas on each page within the book. Get notified each time you go in to edit the book if there are new notes, comments, or questions to read.

Once a page is finished, the editors of that page can mark it complete. Now you know their progress (and the big picture). Your finished pages are safe from unintended edits.

Keep Track of All Your Students

Treering's yearbook software will automatically build an index for your yearbook. Never again worry about making sure each student gets equal coverage in the yearbook, or trying to make the index yourself.

Never again worry if a photo has been used on a previous page. Or how many times each student is in the yearbook. With Treering you can tag students in each of your photos, and easily see which photos have and have not already been used.

Easy Layout Creation

Save time and easily create your yearbook with theme-driven, drag-and-drop templates. Powerful tools and an intuitive interface give you the easiest yearbook software you'll ever use.

Auto Layout

Organizing photos perfectly on a page can be tedious, but it shouldn't be. With Treering, just select the photos you want on a page and our yearbook software will automatically drop them into a beautifully designed layout.

Drag out the photos you want to use, and use our sliders to choose the perfect fit. Choose from 100s of beautiful, professionally designed themes and layouts.

If InDesign is more your thing, no problem, you can upload all the designs you'd like.

Portrait Auto Flow

Point, click, grab some coffee. Yearbook portrait pages are no longer painful. Automatically arrange yearbook portraits. Customize the page layout. Make changes easily. Boom. Between 40-60% of your book is complete, and if you want to add more content to your portrait pages, you can.

Perfectly Aligned Photos in a Snap

It is nearly impossible to manually ensure each photo is centered and aligned on a page perfectly. We've made it possible by adding gridlines that don't get printed, but make book-building a breeze. If you'd like to make it even easier, you can have all your photos snap to the grid. Oh snap! With this kind of precision, you'll feel confident knowing your book will look perfect.

E-Commerce

Raise Money with Recognition Ads

Set your price per size, and let our yearbook software do the rest. When parents log in to buy the book, they will be given the opportunity to purchase one or donate one. Parents get to celebrate their children, and you get to provide your school some extra money to cover the cost of new cameras, field trips, or whatever you might need.

Online Marketing and Photo-Sourcing

School community involvement in the yearbook is crucial, whether that's making them aware of how to buy the book, help contribute photos, or participate in the annual yearbook signing party, you need your community to be involved. We've got you covered from yearbook sales and online purchases to digital signature capabilities.

Crowdsource Yearbook Photos

Get more photos for your yearbook by sourcing them from your parents, students, and teachers. With Treering's yearbook software you can create shared photo folders to which your entire community can add photos.

Build your own shared folders for your yearbook staff to use for everything from retakes and doubles to sports and clubs. You can also create a private spot for just you and your yearbook editors rather than the entire community.

Upload Photos from Anywhere

We understand that all communities store school photos in different places, so we've made sure that our yearbook software will easily allow you to upload from anywhere. Facebook, Instagram? Yup. Google Drive, Google Photos? Got it. Or if you've got photos on your mobile phone or desktop, we can upload them from there too, whatever is best for you.

Free flyers are available in the marketing section of your Treering account.

Yearbook Sales Made Simple

Treering doesn't make your school commit to minimum orders meaning no financial pressure, but it's still something you'll want to do, so we wanted to make it easy. You can add links to your community's Facebook page. You can send emails directly to just those parents who haven't yet purchased. On top of all this, we have a bunch of professionally designed flyers for you to use. If you'd like to have some printed, no problem, we'll do that for free, cause fees just aren't our thing.

Keep Your Yearbook Community Accurate

Sometimes students change schools, or a parent accidentally creates two accounts. Our yearbook software helps you keep your community organized. You can quickly merge or separate student accounts, and add or remove students throughout the year as things change.

From custom pages to adding e-signatures, Treering Yearbooks' software allows parents to give their students a personalized, custom yearbook to tell the story of their year.

Even More to Love

E-signatures

Technology has changed the way students socialize. With Treering's software, students can e-sign their friends' yearbooks with photos and stickers which can be printed on their free custom pages just in their yearbook. 

Ensure Consistent Design Throughout the Yearbook

Set the theme, photo styles, text styles, and more in one place for your entire yearbook. Define all of it, none of it, or just some of it—whatever fits your yearbook style.

Favorites

With so many professionally designed templates, it could be easy to forget where you and your yearbook staffs' favorite ones are. Simply click the stars on the ones you like and they will all be in one spot moving forward.

April 20, 2025

Treering coupons: get a great deal on your school yearbook

Here at Treering, we keep school yearbook prices simple. Your yearbook pricing has two factors: page count and cover type. With this all-inclusive approach, there are no minimum orders, shipping costs, contracts, or hidden fees to consider, and your team will have access to everything they need (templatesdesign toolssupport, and more). This way, you don't need to go searching all around the internet for "Treering Coupons."

But if you did that—and ended up here—we'll give you the inside scoop on how we approach discounts, so you know when and how you can save money.

Treering Coupons for Parents and Students

Treering discounts school yearbook prices in the fall. This early purchase discount is a marketing tool for advisers to gain momentum for book sales and it helps parents lock in a great price. We think it’s a win-win-win.

Here’s how the discount schedule works:

  • August: 10% off
  • September: 10% off
  • October: 10% off

Because these discounts are automatically built in, parents and students don’t even need Treering coupons to take advantage of the deal. They’ll automatically get the sale price when they pre-pay. 

Treering Coupons for Yearbook Advisers

When yearbook advisers work with Treering, they can score their friends a great deal on their school’s yearbook prices while also earning free books for their school.

Here’s how it works:

  • Yearbook advisers using Treering share their special referral coupon code with friends and fellow yearbook advisers.
  • When yearbook advisers sign up their schools with Treering for the first time, they can use that special coupon code to receive 10% off their school’s yearbook prices.
  • The yearbook advisers who shared the code earn up to 10 free yearbooks for their school each time those new schools sell their first yearbook through Treering.

Not Using Treering For Your School Yearbook?

Treering has helped more than 20,000 yearbook advisers do really cool things with their yearbooks without their efforts feeling like a full-time job. We’ll show you how we can do the same for your community.

February 11, 2025

Why are yearbooks so expensive?

Yearbooks can be a costly investment for schools. Some publishers typically require schools to commit to a specific number of yearbooks at the start of the year, even before they’re sold to parents. If the school cannot sell all the books, it is left with the financial responsibility for the unsold copies. 

Not Treering.

Yearbook creators, like John Vogel from Whitesville Elementary School in KY, turned their yearbook bill into a yearbook check when they switched to Treering.

Treering prints what you need using print-on-demand technology, and we make it personal. When yearbook creators enable custom pages, each family has the option to personalize two pages that only print in their yearbook, making every book unique.  (More on us later.)

Yearbook Pricing Explained

Yearbooks are historical. Since Yale published the first one, improvements such as automated presses, desktop publishing software, and digital cameras have made mass-producing yearbooks and collaborating on design easier. Unfortunately, not all of these have translated into the bottom line.

Traditional yearbooks are expensive because the majority of yearbook charges happen in these five main areas:

1. Printing and Production Costs: Usually rolled into the base price, these are the plant charges for producing your core book, including paper, cover stock, and color vs. black-and-white pages.

This school had to raise book prices to make up for the $622. The following year, they sold even fewer.

2. Design and Publishing Software: Big-name design software charges per user, even when integrated into the yearbook publisher’s design application. Publishers sometimes add on charges for professional design support; this is most common when schools want a custom cover.

3. Shipping and Distribution: Since yearbooks are heavy, the cost of delivering large boxes to the school adds up. Some schools must also factor in storage costs or extra distribution efforts, especially if books arrive after the school year ends.

Working with local businesses to sell ads, this school tried to fill the void their yearbook bill caused the activities budget.

4. Spring Supplements or Inserts: With deadlines as early as February, many schools create and print supplements for spring sports, graduation, or prom. These stick-in pages result in additional printing and shipping costs.

5. Fees: Financial penalties such as art set-up fees, minimums, late fees, proofs, marketing materials, cloud storage, and training and support can add up. Sometimes, advisers don’t see them until the final invoice.

https://blog.treering.com/can-our-school-afford-a-yearbook-program/

No Cost Yearbooks?

We’re going to toot our own horn for a sec: Treering operates at no cost to schools, with no minimum orders, commitments, or leftover books to manage. Using digital printing, our platform streamlines production, allows for a three-week turnaround, and even accommodates after-deadline orders. 

There are no late fees, and you control your deadline.

This flexible approach eliminates inventory management, avoids extra costs, and makes yearbooks more affordable—especially for smaller schools.

Additionally, your per-book price is our only price. It covers everything you may be used to paying for separately, like printing, bulk shipping, e-commerce, marketing, support, custom covers, software, and top quality. It’s based on the number of pages in your yearbook and the cover finish.

Remember School A and School B from above? Here's what happened when they switched to Treering.

When we entered the yearbook space in 2009 touting a print-on-demand, no-contract yearbook solution, schools were wary of this too-good-to-be-true proposition. To learn how other schools gained control over their yearbook finances by partnering with Treering Yearbooks, check out these additional yearbook creator case studies:

December 31, 2024

Happy New Year from Treering

For fifteen years, you’ve trusted us to capture and print your priceless memories, and we reflect on this honor every holiday season. In addition to helping schools raise over @2.2M  in the 2024 school year, we printed over 500,000 custom pages in 2022—that’s a lot of joy. Thank you for trusting us with this invaluable task. We wish you all the best this holiday season and we can’t wait to get to work in 2025. 

As the Treering community surpasses 1.6M members, together we continue to grow and innovate. Because of your feedback, we added

  • An onboarding team for first-year yearbook coordinators
  • Bigger prizes for our annual editor and parent contests plus pop-up giveaways on Facebook and Instagram
  • In-person adviser events in Florida, Illinois, and Texas
  • Camp Yearbook, our first-ever two-day summer conference
  • Two new webinars to the Yearbook Club lineup: custom cover design and yearbook photography
  • More IRL examples of what members of the Treering Community create on our socials
  • New ways to capture student memories with photo gifts

Happy holidays!

What to Expect in 2025

  • Superior support as you design, market, and distribute your best book yet
  • Semi-monthly training through Yearbook Club webinars
  • Design contests for editors and parents
  • Your memories arriving within three weeks of clicking Print Ready
  • New predesigned “About Me,” “Year in Review,” and “Best of…” pages
  • Weekly blog articles to provide inspiration and resources – subscribe and have them sent to your email
December 3, 2024

Double your donations 2024

In honor of the season of giving, Treering will match up to five yearbook donations per school account. From Tuesday, December 3 through Tuesday, December 31, one community book donation equals one Treering book donation. Editors can reassign these books to teachers, promoting students, the principal, or students in need.

How the Donation Match Works

  1. Enable the Book Donation option on the dashboard
  2. Let your campus community know 'tis the season to share the (yearbook) love
  3. Re-assign the yearbooks so recipients can customize or order non-custom books to hand out

This promotion ends at 11:59 pm PST on December 31, 2024. Matched yearbooks will automatically be added to your account by January 30, 2025.

The Fine Print

  • Promotion ends at 11:59 pm PST on December 31, 2024.
  • Matched yearbooks will automatically be added to your account by January 30, 2025.
  • Donations may not be combined with any other promotions.
  • Donated yearbooks cannot exist on ship-to-home, invoiced, or PO orders. Credit card or PayPal orders only.
  • Ordering donation books will not be available for After Deadline Orders.

October 2, 2024

Why do I need TRL 24?

Treering Live (TRL) 24 exists because of you and for you. We tailored this virtual conference for yearbook volunteers, educators, and aficionados of all levels, offering three days of flexible sessions so you can engage with various aspects of the creative process. Use these ten reasons to convince your admin, as overarching objectives for your class or club, or as a mantra while you’re pulling on comfy pants.

1. The Price is Right

My colleague and I evaluated a marketing-focused webinar. Once she saw the price tag, she quipped, “If it isn’t free, it isn’t for me.” Good news: TRL is free. So is the replay.

No fundraising and no POs are required.

2. “I Don’t Know What I Don’t Know”

We see that all the time in monthly Getting Started webinars: New yearbook coordinators know they have to plan and produce a book. However, the in-between steps are fuzzy. Every day, TRL starts with an I’m the Yearbook Coordinator… Now What? breakout. In this new adviser session, learn what tools are available and how to plan for success. If a question comes up that Liz T., Cassie W., or Sandra V. doesn’t answer, support is in the chat so we can get to it live.

Other sessions for new advisers include:

3. Been There. Done That.

Is your POV: experienced yearbook adviser? Maybe you’re dipping your toe into the world of competitive yearbooking, or you’re looking to add structure and reduce stress in your program. You've already mastered ladders and drag-and-drop design. It’s time to boost your skill set.

Have we got a show for you.

While the first-time advisers do their thing, we have three expert advisers—each with over a decade of classroom experience—leading a breakout for returners. Join Brent M., Ed G., and Liz T. for

  • Tuesday: Project Management and Hacks
  • Wednesday: Leveling Up Design and Copy
  • Thursday: The Craft of Yearbook: Style Guides and Workflows

Additional sessions returning editors include:

4. Finish 60% of the Book in a Few Clicks

Our three-part portrait auto flow session is the one that builds. Each day, learn how to enhance your portrait pages (typically 40-60% of a yearbook) so that they reflect your school community even more.

  • Tuesday: Get your portraits in the book
  • Wednesday: Add a larger teacher photo and candids to your portrait layouts
  • Thursday: Create blended coverage on your portrait pages
Blended coverage of yearbook portraits and a story
Breaking up portrait pages with bite-size content is one way to get more student stories in the book.

5. The Other 40%

Recreating the wheel is exhausting. That’s why we packed in three never-before-seen sessions at TRL:

See what other Treering schools are doing to create a yearbook that authentically represents their school community.

A word of caution for our first-year advisers: you do not have to do it all.

6. Flexibility

Live or on demand? Tuesday, Wednesday, and/or Thursday? Yes.

Please note: Each day requires a separate registration. There is no limit on the number of days you may attend. The times below are in Pacific Time; Zoom will adopt your local time.

Tuesday, October 8, 2024

  • 9 AM PT - Breakouts: I’m the Yearbook Coordinator… Now What? OR This Ain’t Isn’t My First Rodeo

  • 10 AM PT - Elective: How to Do a Cover Contest

  • 11 AM PT - Knowledge Sessions: Portraits (Part 1 of 3) + Top 10 Parent Questions Answered

  • 12 PM PT - POV: I’m Not a Designer

Wednesday, October 9, 2024

  • 9 AM PT - Breakouts: I’m the Yearbook Coordinator… Now What? OR This Ain’t Isn’t My First Rodeo

  • 10 AM PT - Elective: Photography Tips and Tricks

  • 11 AM PT - Knowledge Sessions: Portraits (Part 2 of 3) + Top 10 Editor Questions Answered

  • 12 PM PT - POV: I’m Ready to Move Beyond Templates

Thursday, October 10, 2024

  • 9 AM PT - Breakouts: I’m the Yearbook Coordinator… Now What? OR This Ain’t Isn’t My First Rodeo

  • 10 AM PT - Elective: Coverage Ideas

  • 11 AM PT - Knowledge Sessions: Portraits (Part 3 of 3) + Top 10 Parent Questions Answered

  • 12 PM PT - POV: I’m Not a Designer

7. Marketing Moments

Hear what other advisers are doing around the US. Throughout TRL 24, we’ll visit a colleague in their classroom to learn how they get books into the hands of students.

This is just one way attendees will inspire one another. Share your ideas during TRL 24 by tagging us on social using @treering (Facebook and X) or @treeringcorp (Instagram and TikTok) using #trl24.

8. Yearbook Pro Grow

You’ve seen the memes: I’m not listening to training from anyone who hasn’t been in the classroom this decade either. After you watch live or in-person, request a training certificate for up to 12 hours of design technology and theory to create a yearbook publication.

9. Prizes

We always give away the goods. If you have fast fingers, you may be able to win big by participating in the live chat.

10. As Always, Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop

The learning doesn’t end on October 10. Grow with weekly blog posts and YouTube shorts, monthly webinars, and 24/7 support with the Help Center.

We can’t think of a better way to celebrate National School Yearbook Week than with the Treering Community.

September 17, 2024

TRL 2024 pov: i’m on the yearbook team

POV: You’re on the 2024-2025 yearbook team! Cue the confetti—for some—and the sweat for others. No matter your personal point of view, our flagship event, Treering Live (TRL), offers three days of FREE live virtual training for anyone helping to create the most epic yearbook ever. 

Every National School Yearbook Week, the Treering Community comes together for 

  • Organization hacks
  • Content examples that will wow your community
  • How-to guides to master yearbook design and marketing

POV is More Than a Social Trend

We love a good theme. And we know it’s more than graphics: your comments on last year’s survey shaped the TRL 2024 schedule and session offerings. Here’s what you taught us:

  • “I need something earlier in the day or meant more for classes to engage in.”
  • “Wednesday was very heavy with sessions; perhaps spread them out more evenly across the days.”
  • “I would like to be able to rewatch the sessions.”
  • “If you do these events again, I would like to see more on designing a yearbook.”
  • “This will be our 3rd Treering yearbook but my first time as Editor et al. It got handed to me, and I was lost, so when I got the email about TRL, I was all about it and so glad I attended sessions. Thank you so much for having this.”
  • “I loved the free flow conversations and how one person really kept an eye on the Q&A so all were answered.”

Treering’s Response: You got it! 

Join us October 8-10 for TRL 24 POV: I’m on the Yearbook Team. We’ve kept all that you loved and added more of what you want. Expect:

Lunch and Learn Schedule. TRL 2024 spans three days from 9 AM - 1 PM PT. (The rundown is below)

Prizes. Need we say more? 

Real-time support. Your Community Advocate Team will continue to monitor and engage in the chat and Q&A to help you get resources and answers. 

On-demand replays. Did you miss one because of lunch duty? Did you hear something you wanted to share with your class? Did we say something funny that you need to export and autotune? All registrants will have access to recordings through May.  

Start the day with the same sessions, different POVs. After the obligatory welcome, the first two sessions tackle yearbook organization. With breakouts for first-time and experienced advisers, there’s content tailored for volunteers, educators, and aficionados of all levels. The best part? Each day, a different speaker will share their perspective.

Multiple electives. Ideas, examples, and instructions—oh my! Attend specialized sessions on portrait pages, spread design, photography, and coverage. 

Webinar Schedule

Please note: Each day requires a separate registration. There is no limit on the number of days you may attend. The times below are in Pacific Time; Zoom will adopt your local time.

Tuesday, October 8, 2024

  • 9 AM PT - Breakouts: I’m the Yearbook Coordinator… Now What? OR This Ain’t Isn’t My First Rodeo

  • 10 AM PT - Elective: How to Do a Cover Contest

  • 11 AM PT - Knowledge Sessions: Portraits (Part 1 of 3) + Top 10 Parent Questions Answered

  • 12 PM PT - POV: I’m Not a Designer

Wednesday, October 9, 2024

  • 9 AM PT - Breakouts: I’m the Yearbook Coordinator… Now What? OR This Ain’t Isn’t My First Rodeo

  • 10 AM PT - Elective: Photography Tips and Tricks

  • 11 AM PT - Knowledge Sessions: Portraits (Part 2 of 3) + Top 10 Editor Questions Answered

  • 12 PM PT - POV: I’m Ready to Move Beyond Templates

Thursday, October 10, 2024

  • 9 AM PT - Breakouts: I’m the Yearbook Coordinator… Now What? OR This Ain’t Isn’t My First Rodeo

  • 10 AM PT - Elective: Coverage Ideas

  • 11 AM PT - Knowledge Sessions: Portraits (Part 3 of 3) + Top 10 Parent Questions Answered

  • 12 PM PT - POV: I’m Not a Designer

2024 TRL FAQs

How much does it cost to register?

Free! Charging extra for support and training isn’t our thing.

I’m not a Treering customer. May I attend?

Yes, please attend. Treering loves to share.

Can my yearbook students attend?

Student privacy is always our utmost concern. Yearbook classes are welcome to attend together; the adviser must be present to model responsible online engagement.

What do I need to prepare for TRL?

Make sure you have the latest version of Zoom so you don’t miss out! If you’re old school, have paper and a pen to take notes. New school, live post on X, formerly known as Twitter, or Facebook and hashtag #trl2024, #BiteSizedPD, #treering

Will TRL be recorded?

We will record and share all group TRL sessions on the On Demand section of the Yearbook Club Hub on Zoom Events through May 2025.

This is my first year leading the yearbook. What should I do?

Welcome! We recommend beginning with I’m the Yearbook Coordinator… Now What? (It’s happening three times!)

How do I get on the Zoom Events platform?

For best results, use Chrome on a computer and update to the latest version of the Zoom desktop client/mobile application.

After you register, you will receive your unique link to access the session(s).

Is this only for first-year advisers?

No! Returning advisers will have curated sessions on organization and advanced design.

Can I get professional development credit?

For our teacher friends who need to apply for professional development or are looking for a yearbook PLC, TRL attendees with gain fundamental knowledge and skills related to yearbook creation, marketing, volunteer management, and effective engagement with students and parents, preparing them to support the yearbook team and contribute positively to the school's yearbook project. (You can quote us on it!) Upon request, we will offer a certificate of completion for three or more hours of attendance for attendees. Email marketing@treering.com for details.

June 4, 2024

Virtual summer pd: camp yearbook

We always say we will get started on yearbook planning over the summer. Raise your hand if you follow through. (My hand is down too.) Meet Camp Yearbook, Treering's two-day virtual yearbook planning course. It's part large-group training; part small-group mentoring and idea sharing. And it's 100% live.

The goal: have the first six weeks of yearbooking planned.

What to Expect

Treering's Camp Yearbook is a cameras-on, all-in yearbook planning experience.

Event Structure and Registration

30-31
July2024
Camp Yearbook Session 1Early Birds tick some boxes off your yearbook to-do list: page count, ladder, theme, Treering design hacks, photo tips, portrait settings, team structure, and more.
9 AM ET/6 AM PTLive on Zoom Events
30-31
July2024
Camp Yearbook Session 2Your yearbook to-do list just shrank: page count, ladder, theme, Treering design hacks, photo tips, portrait settings, team structure, and more.
1 PM ET/10 AM PTLive on Zoom Events

Both sessions will have the same schedule, staff, and support materials. Register via the Yearbook Club webinars page.

Treering Mentors

All attendees will be in a small group led by a Treering staff member who served—or currently serves—as a yearbook adviser. In groups specific to school style and yearbook team structure, you can ask questions about grading, crowdsourcing, club structure, page count, and whatever else you need answered. (Your camp counselors aren't Treering life coaches, but close.)

Grow Together

Breakout groups for parent volunteers, solo yearbook coordinators, educators, and club leaders mean you get meaningful support and specific-to-you resources.

Camp Yearbook FAQs

Your questions deserve answers!

How is Camp Yearbook different from Treering Live (TRL)?

TRL is Treering’s flagship event. During National Yearbook Week, TRL will have all the design training, coveted prizes, and organization inspiration yearbook advisers have come to expect. We look forward to it as much as you do!

Camp Yearbook is a virtual summer PD program for yearbook coordinators and advisers who want to get more from their program through professional mentoring and collaborative idea-sharing. It’s a cameras-on, all-in yearbook planning experience.

What do I need to prepare for Camp Yearbook?

Having previous copies of your yearbook and the 24-25 school calendar may be helpful. We'll provide the goal-setting worksheets, ladders, idea decks, and resources because we want you to finish Camp Yearbook with your first six weeks of yearbooking planned.

For best results, have two monitors: one for demos and one so you can work as we go.

How much is it?

Free ninety free. Charging extra for support and training is not our thing.

Will I get CE/PD hours for attending?

Yes! Upon completion, attendees will receive a certificate for six hours of yearbook production and classroom planning.

Can students attend?

Nope. Consider this a break… a working break.

Will Camp Yearbook be recorded?

Camp Yearbook is an interactive, experiential event. Recordings will not be made public.

Can I attend both the AM and PM sessions?

No, the programming is the same for both sessions. Please do not register for both.