Past-President TSPRA | Award-winning Visibility Strategist with a passion for public ed, customer service training, storytelling & creating synergy!
Joined March 2009
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A soundbite is a short line that carries a big idea. Here’s why it works:
Simple reads as credible.
Rhythm feels accurate.
Repeat it 5 times and it sounds like truth.
Attach emotion and the brain files it as fact.
Enrollment, elections, trust. Say it so people can carry it.
Your comms team is talented. Your strategy is sound.
But there’s a gap between the two that no one’s been able to name.
A Communications Audit shows where your content is working and where your team is simply busy. Request yours through the link in bio.
#SchoolCommunications
The brutal truth about most content calendars? They’re missing a brief.
Know who a post is for, what they care about, and what you want them to do next, and the design and caption almost write themselves.
Before you walk into the interview, your materials have already told a story.
Is it the one you meant?
Superintendent branding aligns your leadership narrative, visual brand, application, and interview tools into one voice. Spots are open now. Link in bio.
#K12Leadership
Hear the word marketing and your shoulders tighten?
Fair. At its best, it’s simply understanding your audience, defining your value, and helping families decide. You already do pieces of it every day.
VVS marketing mentorship helps you own all of it. Interest form in my bio.
Your communications department may be doing exactly what you hired it to do five years ago, and the question worth sitting with is whether that is still what your district needs today.
Your comms team is talented. Your strategy is sound. But there's a gap between the two that no one's been able to name, until now.
Hear the word marketing and feel your shoulders tighten? At its best, it’s understanding your audience, defining your value, and communicating it clearly. School communicators already do pieces of it every day.
VVS marketing mentorship helps you own it. Interest form in bio.
Your brand is the story people see across every video, every speech, and every headline. It either strengthens your district’s story or quietly competes with it. Superintendent personal branding: leadership story, visual identity, interview tools.
Spots open now. Link in bio.
You cannot advertise excellence and then make a family feel unwelcome.
A training participant with 30+ years in education told me no one had ever shown her how her attitude shapes enrollment and her campus budget.
One afternoon did. Bring it to your front office. Form in bio.
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Election ahead? Start with your principals and APs. Give them 2 or 3 talking points that fit a hallway or staff meeting. Then give PTA/PTO leaders short, neutral facts parents can repeat at pickup. One voice, every audience. Interest form in bio.
#K12Leadership
Superintendent, ask your cabinet this: Could your CFO, HR director, and academic chief each name one story this month worth telling a family or a future teacher? If only comms can answer, your story lives in one office.
A Communications Audit shows where. Link in bio.
Facts are facts, but emotions are what drive our decisions.
A program list gives families facts. A student telling her own story gives them a reason to feel something.
Download the K12 Marketing Checklist, link in bio.
#SchoolMarketing #K12Communications
Before a single mailer goes out, your staff needs to know what's on the ballot and why. Email won't cut it.
Put neutral, fact based signs in restroom stalls, by the break room microwave and at the staff entrance.
They can't carry a message they never got. #BondElection