If you’ve been following our latest blogs, you know we find it important for school leaders to develop their personal brand on social media. But, developing and tending to your brand also means stepping away from your social media, too.
How Getting Off Social Media Can Improve Your Mental Health
May 18, 2022 at 11:32 AM | Tags: best practices, superintendent, social media
The genius of learning is to have fun. Here's what that looks like today.
Once, as a K-12 student, I remember the kids in my class moaning about a particular content area. My teacher responded with a rhetorical question that has stayed with me since: “Don’t you want a teacher that is energized by the topic and who loves to teach it?” Yes, yes, I do. We all do. And I am...
May 11, 2022 at 8:00 AM | Tags: Public Education, superintendent, STEM, JASON Learning, Elanor Smalley
Mental Health Awareness Month: Improving Your Support of the Whole Child
When was the last time you stopped and truly checked in with yourself? Let’s face it, we’ve all experienced trauma over the last two years, and the children you serve every day have suffered more than most.
May 10, 2022 at 8:00 AM | Tags: Mariemont City Schools, Dover City Schools, Marysville Exempted Village School District, Dublin City Schools, Mental Health Awareness Month
Positive News: The Only News Anyone Wants and Needs Right Now
Tell me: Are you a glass half full or glass half empty kind of guy or gal? I think we can all agree that what the world needs now is a lot more glass-half-full perspectives.
May 4, 2022 at 11:30 AM | Tags: COVID-19 Communications, school district social media, communications, communications strategy
Unseen No More: Boosting CFO Street Cred to Lauded and Applauded
It’s crazy: One of the top and most important positions in any school system is that of the treasurer/CFO, yet this person is typically the most unseen and perhaps, even, underappreciated. In reading the tea leaves for 2022, the role is only gaining in importance and is increasingly on the radar...
April 27, 2022 at 8:26 AM | Tags: communications strategy, School Finances, Treasurer
Nine ways to end the school year on a positive note
Spring break marks the final stretch for schools and the fourth quarter is upon us. There’s no time for a seventh inning stretch now. Because before you take that well deserved sigh of relief, here are nine tasks you should try and do in the last nine weeks of school to end the year on a positive...
April 20, 2022 at 8:00 AM | Tags: communication, Spring Break, Graduation
Want to Reimagine Public Education? Ask the innovators and creators
It’s said that tough times reveal our truest selves. How can anyone disagree with that? In education, the past two years have revealed our public educators as innovators and creators.
March 31, 2022 at 8:00 AM | Tags: communications, superintendent, Dan Leffingwell, Noble Local
A happy, fulfilled leader? Yes, it's achievable
Leadership. Is what we learned about it dated when navigating work and life in the 2020s? And how do we mentor leadership in others, especially when they are finding themselves in the forefront of a public crisis. This includes principals, teachers and school board members – all those who are now...
March 23, 2022 at 9:15 AM | Tags: communications, strategies, superintendent, leadership
Retweets, Likes and More: Four Ways to Establish Your Personal Brand
Advice on whether company executives should have their own social media presence seems to waver. But after the last two years of polarization on COVID-19 topics and contentious board races, it’s more important than ever for school superintendents to establish and foster their brand in this space.
February 22, 2022 at 11:39 AM | Tags: social media guidelines, social media marketing, superintendent
People are leaving their jobs: Six ways to support job satisfaction and personal goals.
February 16, 2022 at 9:45 PM | Tags: superintendent, leadership
Three Defining Moments of 2021 for Schools
February 2, 2022 at 10:30 AM | Tags: best practices, communications strategy
Two ways great leaders are riding out tough situations right now
Over the holiday break, my Twitter feed blew up with superintendents everywhere tweeting out the latest Newsweek article about the “Great Exodus” of superintendents from public education. Why? Because they know it and they feel it: To their very core.
January 3, 2022 at 12:40 PM | Tags: best practices, superintendent, leadership