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As we look forward to the coming new year, here’s a look back on some of our top blog posts from 2022. We’ve worked hard this year to explore education-related topics and deliver the best tips and practices to make the lives of every school administrator easier. Let’s dive in!
Make Sure Your Communication Reaches EVERYONE
In this blog post, we discussed the importance of considering people of all abilities in your communication planning, especially when it’s digital. With a parent communication app, you can be confident that your message is reaching everyone in your community. SchoolInfo makes sure the native accessibility functionality of smartphones can be used to help you communicate. Features like Switch Control, Assistive Touch, and Apple’s Voice Control offer assistance to individuals with physical motor limitations. VoiceOver (iOS), TalkBack (Android), Alt tags, Zoom, Magnifier, and Display Accommodations can be used in the app to provide assistance and screen-reading capabilities for people with limited vision. Taking advantage of the assistive technology available in everyday tech can be a game-changer when communicating with families, staff, and students.
Many features in a school app by SchoolInfo will help with communication as well including Conversations, targeted communication, Daily Messages, calendars, and language selection.
How to Craft a Crisis Response Plan
Developing a crisis response plan for schools can be intimidating, so we gathered a few resources to help those in charge plan for potential unexpected events in this blog. The blog covers helpful tips from articles about crisis response planning by the National Education Association and K-12 Dive. According to those articles, here is an outline to follow when drafting your crisis response planning.
- Prevent: Avoid incidents if possible or lessen the harm done by unavoidable ones
- Prepare: Plan for worst-case scenarios
- Respond: Develop steps to minimize harm to people and property
- Recover: Restoring teaching environments after an incident
In addition to these articles referenced, our blog highlighted a few features an app by SchoolInfo offers to assist with your school's emergency response plan. Features like Mass Notifications, Tip Line, Share!, and Conversations can all be integrated to assist you during a time when your community needs communication the most.
Why Schools Need a Content Strategy
Creating content is important in all industries. As a school or district employee, this may not be something you’re too familiar with, so we’re here to help! Whether you're a school administrator or school PR employee, creating and posting content through your school or district's communication channels is just a small part of your job. Developing a content strategy is essential, but you may not always have the time for it or understand what needs to go into it. In this previous blog post, we discussed the importance of content and provided a few resources, including our own ebook to help you with your content creation strategy. With our in-depth guide, Content Creation Guide for Schools and Districts: A guide for creating content to post through different channels and templates from the team at SchoolInfo, you'll have everything you need to start planning and creating professional and intentional content for your school or district.
Not only is our team at SchoolInfo always working to provide you with resources to help you with your processes, but we also can provide you with the tools to put those processes into action. We’re looking forward to the year to come and will continue to bring you hot topics in the world of education and education technology. Are there any topics you want us to cover in our blog? Is there a specific guide you're looking for to help with your school's communication, but haven't found it yet? Let us know!
Looking to improve your school or district's communication with an app by SchoolInfo? Request a meeting with a member of our team today!
