Archive for August 2014
Your Back to School Blitz. Game on! – SCN Encourager
Truth time. Could we be any busier? I sure don’t see how. Ping-ponging between assorted parent communications, monitoring student count and budgets, helping with registration, attending departmental and board meetings, reviewing emergency procedures, planning for open houses, and staying on top of 31 other “duties as assigned” makes our lives on our district teams, well… interesting to say the…
Read MoreHas the face of your competition changed? – SCN Encourager
How would you describe it? Marketing experts have told us for years that the “real competition” affecting organizations comes from the expanded number of choices available to consumers. For example, we want our parents to come to our school open house. They are free to choose to attend… or stay home, go to work, go shopping, hang out at a sports bar, or…
Read MoreThree communicators offer “insights that may surprise you.”
On the lookout for quick tips that’ll extend your reach? I am. Duly noted: School communications is hard work. It’s also a big part of what makes a school — and a school district — successful. Fortunately, the building blocks of good communications are pretty simple. Getting them all stacked straight and in order is another…
Read MoreLiving up to expectations takes time and practice. – SCN Encourager
But “underwhelming” I can do without any advance notice. The Canva project I had originally planned to create for you has been placed on hold. Indefinitely. Although I had studied Erin Luckhart’s excellent step-by-step Canva video tutorial and thought I had pulled together the two essential pieces she recommended – a basic knowledge of Canva and a successful…
Read MoreTech Tip Tuesday: Using Canva to Share Your Success.
All too often the true stories about what’s happening in our schools isn’t being told. As a teacher, I make it a priority to share the great things that my students are doing and accomplishing. As school employees, though, we are BUSY. So how do I do it? Well, Canva helps me to create a…
Read MoreDo you know your school parents as well as Google does? – SCN Encourager
Google probably knows me better than my wife and kids! It’s weird to think about. How Google has automated more than the speedy-kwik access to information… to now use all of its connections to also move into the realm of relationship building. I had never thought about this before, but last Thursday was my birthday. My birthday used to be fun about…
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