Aug 4, 2019
Communicating to Create Happy Families with Jennifer Larson
Transformative Principal 290
Social media: If you have a good communication system and
everyone is engaged, there’s a positive buzz to the school.
Jennifer Larson is
he co-founder and CEO of Hive Digital
Minds, which provides parent-school communication solutions
through schoolbzz.com
- Completely overwhelmed
- Couldn’t keep up.
- Shift towards personalized learning means there are a lot of
different adults supporting a student.
- “I don’t even read the newsletter anymore.”
- Parents want to know what the two or three places for
information.
- Grades communication is an important part of it as well.
- School website is a great marketing tool to recruit students,
teachers, and families to your school.
- Figure out what information you want to share with the public
and put that on the web site.
- Find tools that work well for your enrolled families.
- Build a communication strategy that gets information to the
families quickly and efficiently.
- Do a communication audit to see what you are currently
using.
- Which have information that parents might want access to.
- Need to implement a multi-year strategy.
- Talk to your parents.
- When schools jump into parent engagement, they are probably
meeting the needs of those who were already having their needs
met.
- Challenges around native languages spoken.
- Focus on mobile.
- Recognize that not all parents can be there physically at the
school.
- Parent engagement is about making sure the families understand
the value of education.
- Volunteer hours.
- Parents want to be engaged but they don’t know how.
- If you have a good communication system and everyone is
engaged, there’s a positive buzz to the school.
- If you have happy families at your school, there is no other
better testimonial.
- How to be a transformative principal? It all comes down to
communication. Connect with each of your staff members and
parents.
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