Isms: Views on life in rural America

One of the best yearbooks my students produced is based on the theme, "Everyone has a story." Like a typical yearbook, it is stuffed with photos and cutlines and articles, from bleed line to bleed line, placed on double-truck spreads. The difference from others we previously produced: We looked for commonalities among students that weren't school related.

In that edition, students wrote about their peers who participated in non-traditional sports outside of the school day, like trap shooting and soccer; interviewed friends who juggled part- and full-time jobs alongside a full course load; shar...