Leadership Matters April 2015

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 school district team of administrators

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

Teacher Recruiting and Retention Task Force asks superintendents to fill out survey about impact of Tier II pension law on teacher pool The Teacher and Recruiting and Retention Task Force is asking school superintendents to fill out a Tier II pension survey to help the task force analyze the potential impact of the implementation of Tier II pension benefits on the teaching profession. The task force was created by the 98 th General Assembly (House Joint Resolution 27) to study the impact of Tier II pension benefits on the ability of school districts to recruit and retain teachers in public schools. Re- sults of the survey will be the foundation for a report ISBE must submit to the General Assembly this fall. The survey window will remain open until May 1. To complete the survey, please click here . If you have any questions about the survey, please contact Vince Camille at vcamille@isbe.net .

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