LM February 2016

Developing a Communications Plan

8 hours of Administrator Academy credit (AA #1568)!

IASA Director of Communications Michael

Chamness presents a course designed to offer tips on how to develop messages for your community and the media, how to handle crisis communications, how to spread the good news that is happening in your school district and how to develop a communications plan. The course includes:

 3 hours in-person training, with video examples of best and worst practices and participation in mock press conferences involving real-world school issues

 5 hours of homework, the end result being a written

communications plan for your school district -- a project that can be undertaken as a team of administrators from a school district

Contact Mary Ellen Buch at 217.753.2213 or mbuch@iasaedu.org to schedule an Academy in your area

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