Past-President TSPRA | Award-winning Visibility Strategist with a passion for public ed, customer service training, storytelling & creating synergy!
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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
I've watched superintendents lose jobs to politics they never saw coming. Standing out starts before you're hired, with a story, brand, and materials that all say the same thing. Superintendent personal branding spots are open. Link in bio. Let's talk.
On my way to a gala Saturday, a client asked what's working in election season.
My answer: you, in the room. Speak at city council, commissioners court, appraisal board.
Facts inform. Emotions decide. Need an election strategy partner?
Link in bio. #BondElection
Communicators: you're not failing. You're facing a strategy gap no one ever showed you how to close. Enrollment now runs all year: student stories in October, teacher stories in January, belonging in April.
The K12 Marketing Checklist shows where to start. Link in bio.
I clear the blockages so you can stop managing the minutiae and start seeing your district actually move.
Link in bio to bring customer service training to your staff, or to reserve one of the last fall spots for superintendent personal branding.
