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Messaging Matters
How School Leaders Can Inspire Teachers, Motivate Students, and Reach Communities
Written for leaders, this book is divided into three parts, helping readers maximize their roles as chief communicators with a school's internal and external stakeholders: students, teachers, parents, and community. Learn how school leaders can develop a communication strategy to increase school and community collaboration.
Benefits
- Comprehend the power of messaging in school.
- Gain tips for how to best use available technology tools, including online platforms, for messaging purposes.
- Inspect scenarios and real anecdotes that show messaging tactics in action in schools.
- Learn how to implement positive messaging with students from the start of the school year.
- Explore special considerations to make when communicating with challenging students or in difficult school climates.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Why Messaging MattersChapter 1: Building a Positive Culture for Messaging
Chapter 2: Cultivating a Positive Message With Teachers
Chapter 3: Using Strategies for Positive Messaging With Teachers
Chapter 4: Cultivating a Positive Message With Students
Chapter 5: Using Technology to Message With Students
Chapter 6: Cultivating a Positive Message With Parents and the Community
Chapter 7: Using Technology to Message With Parents, the Community, and Beyond
Epilogue: Messaging Tips
Reproducibles
- Daily Good Deed Award Certificate
- Email Campaign Template Letter to Parents
- Start-of-School Checklist
Suggested Resources
Book
- DuFour, R. (2015). In Praise of American Educators: And How They Can Become Even Better. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
Websites
Chapter 1a
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
- Biteable
- Bulldog Bulletin
- Edmodo
- GarageBand
- Google Alerts
- Hootsuite
- LMMS
- PowToons
- Remind
- Skiatook High School
Chapter 6
- 10-Minute Teacher
- CoolCatTeacher, “When Kindness Goes Viral #MondayMotivation”
- Connected Principals
- Principal Matters, “30 Questions From Principal Interviews (Plus More)”
- Principal Matters Podcast, “Episode 52: Starting a Movement of Kindness”
Chapter 7
- The 10-Minute Teacher
- Barkweek2K17
- Better Leaders Better Schools
- Biteable
- Brunch and Learn
- “Class Cup Promotional Video”
- EdChat Radio
- Educators Lead
- EduTalk
- Every Classroom Matters
- MailChimp
- The Main Idea
- Principal Center Radio
- Principally Speaking
- Principal Matters Podcast
- PrincipalPLN Podcast
- School Administrators Radio–AASA Radio
- The School Leadership Show
- School Principals Radio–NAESP Radio
- Transformative Principal
- WordPress
- Zoom
