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What is the Missing Step in Your District’s Strategic Plan?

Education Elements

There are committees, meetings, surveys, reviews, discussions and multiple rounds of revision. For many districts, they are the most expensive document created in a given year. Getting to a final draft usually takes several months or more and requires the time of many staff and community members.

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Communicating Through Change: How a CA District Is Supporting Families in the Year Ahead

Edsurge

A National Shift in the Relationship Between Schools, Parents and Guardians A spring survey of more than 3,600 U.S. However, less than half of parents in the survey said they received key resources—including expectations for schoolwork—from their districts.

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Communications Tips for School Leaders

Edsurge

Think about how to use Twitter, surveys, and town-hall style meetings for your communications. Ask the media to join meetings with your community, capture what is happening in the classroom or interview key stakeholders involved in the work. Anthony Kim is the founder & CEO of Education Elements, a education consultancy.

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School Improvement: Strategies That Can Make It Happen

edWeb.net

Principals meet with Pulvino and the deputy superintendent to review site-based goals and accomplishments and offer qualitative and quantitative feedback. Start- and end-of-year and intermittent surveys year gauge student and staff feelings about belonging and instructional and learning experiences—all the data shape plan adjustments.