Why School Communication Matters by Porterfield Kitty;Carnes Meg; & Meg Carnes

Author:Porterfield, Kitty;Carnes, Meg; & Meg Carnes [Porterfield, Kitty & Carnes, Meg]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2014-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

The Bottom Line

Building good relationships with members of the media in your community can bring fair and accurate coverage about your school or district. Understanding the rules of the game and always treating reporters and editors with respect will earn their respect of you. Clarity, consistency, and courtesy count.

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Lead the Change

Modeling a Compelling Message on Diversity

Insight, I believe, refers to the depth of understanding that comes by setting experiences, yours and mine, familiar and exotic, new and old, side by side, learning by letting them speak to one another.

—Mary Catherine Bateson

In Fairfax County, the change happened very quickly. In little more than twenty years, the once bucolic district with its horse farms and largely white population became a sprawling, urban landscape of shopping centers, traffic jams, and discrete communities of immigrants from all across the world. As has happened in other communities-in-transition, the schools in Fairfax County were among the places where these changes could first be seen.

In 1985, 80 percent of the students were white. In 2005, the percentage dropped to 50.

The number of students in English as a Second Language classes more than doubled in those years.

The county remained one of the richest in the country, but suddenly the number of school children who receive free or reduced-priced meals reached 20 percent.

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