Principal Talk!


Book Description

A must-have book for all principals! Principal Talk! provides 52 practical and useful scenarios to implement communication with teachers, parents, students, staff, and the community. Keep your cool and soar to new heights with insightful tips, worksheets, checklists, and sample letters for leadership success. Are you concerned about: Maintaining and sustaining a high caliber of student achievement? Communicating the school's successes in a positive way? Establishing credibility in the community? Promoting and maintaining a safe and positive learning environment? If you answered yes, then Principal Talk! is the book you need. For aspiring as well as veteran principals, this no-nonsense book summarizes how to be an educational leader and advocate in today's educational environment. "Principal Talk! provides simple communication strategies and advice to keep teachers, students, parents, staff and the community in your corner. A must-read for today's educational leader to be successful in today's reform climate." —Jack Canfield Co-author, Chicken Soup for the Teacher's Soul and Chicken Soup for the Parent's Soul




The Principal and Communication


Book Description

The third of six volumes in the "Elementary Principal Series," this booklet is intended for beginning elementary principals desiring to develop an effective communications plan for reaching their various publics. The principal plays a key role in controlling both the quantity and quality of school communications. Although principals may feel more comfortable using one-way communication methods (newsletters, bulletins, and media announcements), they should also employ survey questionnaires, conferences, and other means to obtain feedback. Effective school communication plans are continuous, open, and frequent and involve staff and students. Elements characterizing healthy communications with staff include honesty, attentiveness, clarity, and consistency. The tone used in written or oral communications should reflect purpose and desired outcome. The principal must use every available avenue to communicate positive messages about the school tailored to different constituencies. Various communication methods (speaking engagements, newspaper and television coverage, and school newsletters), carry certain advantages and disadvantages. Telephone calls (both positive and problem) and conferences can be effective, if used appropriately. Tips are provided for communicating with peers and the central office. (12 references) (MLH)




The Principal's Guide to Managing Communication


Book Description

"Schneider and Hollenczer fully understand the principal's critical role as a community relations expert. Establishing good communication is hard work and does not happen automatically-Schneider and Hollenczer get it! This book must get to every university preparation program in the country." -Theodore Creighton, Executive Director National Council of Professors of Educational Administration "This is a timely and informative book that offers knowledge and skills necessary to navigate the turbulent waters of school administration in the 21st century. It's a must-read for those who would be effective school leaders focused on continued school improvement." -Walter H. Warfield, Executive Director Illinois Association of School Administrators Develop successful communication strategies that yield real-world results! Today's school principals are expected to be instructional leaders. They know the importance of working closely with teachers, parents, and community members as partners in transparent organizational settings where communication is rapid, on-demand, and two-way. This indispensable text shows practicing and aspiring principals how to manage that communication so that everything else they do has a chance to work as planned. This resource helps readers to: Discover a variety of successful communication frameworks Contend with greater outside access to school data Implement dynamic communication that reaches all school stakeholders This must-have resource is part of the Leadership for Learning initiative of the American Association of School Administrators (AASA).




The Communicating Principal


Book Description

The demand for effective communication and marketing at the campus level has never been more urgent and yet most administrators come into the role with little public relations expertise or background. Schools must navigate incredibly complex societal issues while they compete for students, engage families, and inspire staff and community members to give their best efforts and support. The Communicating Principal: Practical Strategies for School Leadersprovides real-world stories, best-practice guidelines, and practical communication checklists designed to help school leaders better understand their community and bring them in to co-create a vision for positive transformation. From social media and websites to crisis and internal messaging, this book shares systems and supports that make communicating easier and more effective. Every topic is covered from the lens of a principal—what you need, how it can be done quickly and inexpensively, and how to measure success so that it can be shared and replicated. Not every school or district can afford a communication professional; The Communicating Principal is the next best thing.




The Principal's Guide to Managing Communication


Book Description

Develop a successful communication strategy that reaches all members of the school community so that everything else has a chance to work as planned.




The Principal′s Guide to Managing Communication


Book Description

"Schneider and Hollenczer fully understand the principal′s critical role as a community relations expert. Establishing good communication is hard work and does not happen automatically-Schneider and Hollenczer get it! This book must get to every university preparation program in the country." -Theodore Creighton, Executive Director National Council of Professors of Educational Administration "This is a timely and informative book that offers knowledge and skills necessary to navigate the turbulent waters of school administration in the 21st century. It′s a must-read for those who would be effective school leaders focused on continued school improvement." -Walter H. Warfield, Executive Director Illinois Association of School Administrators Develop successful communication strategies that yield real-world results! Today′s school principals are expected to be instructional leaders. They know the importance of working closely with teachers, parents, and community members as partners in transparent organizational settings where communication is rapid, on-demand, and two-way. This indispensable text shows practicing and aspiring principals how to manage that communication so that everything else they do has a chance to work as planned. This resource helps readers to: Discover a variety of successful communication frameworks Contend with greater outside access to school data Implement dynamic communication that reaches all school stakeholders This must-have resource is part of the Leadership for Learning initiative of the American Association of School Administrators (AASA).







Having an Impact on Learning


Book Description

A public relations director and a principal have mostly the same goals in helping students achieve at high levels. While each might go about impacting student learning in different ways, they both work to make education better. In Having an Impact on Learning, the husband and wife team of Matt and Kelly Wachel, help show how both the principal and the public relations director can propel education forward. Whether it’s through perception, teaching and learning, communication, social media, events, student achievement, or working with the community, principals and public relations professionals have to understand their roles in contributing to each of those areas. While the topics of conversation between these two professions sometimes cause disagreement, in the end, the principal and the public relations professional agree that their two views must ultimately mesh to help do what’s best for kids. In this book, get insight into these areas of education and learn about ways principals and public relations directors can work in harmony. School leaders and communicators have to be on the same page when it comes to telling the story of education. We are all storytellers and we have to be able to tell the story together.




The Principal as Leader of Challenging Conversations


Book Description

Steer high-stakes conversations with staff and students toward win-win outcomes with this handy pocket guide to effective communication. Includes scripts, case studies, and checklists.




Principal Communication


Book Description

This text contains original case study research regarding the U.S. perception of public schools and how communication strategies can be utilized to engage various school constituencies to enhance leadership and school effectiveness. The school principal and the role that communication plays in school interactions with the media and external constituencies is the primary focus of the book. A pilot study investigating the media's depictions of public schools is also included to assist the reader in understanding the relationship between school administrators, their larger systems and the media outlets impacting their organizations. Data was collected from school principals, media outlets and reporters and central office administrators to determine what communication practices were used by the principal, school organization and their leadership. This information was used to develop a communication model specifically for school principals that outlines strategies, tactics and recommendations for engaging organizational stakeholders.