The School and Community Relations
by Bagin, Don H.; Gallagher, Donald R.; Moore, Edward H.Edition: 9th
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2008-01-01
Publisher(s): Allyn & Bacon
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Summary
Well-researched and applied, this best-selling text provides school officials the "how" and the "why" for effective communication with their staff and the community to improve school quality and student learning. Gives the reader a comprehensive plan for implementing a step-by-step school-community relations program to help improve school quality and school learning.New info on No Child Left Behind, reporting achievement and test scores, school "crises" such as shootings and terrorism, school choice and the Freedom of Information Act.Pre-service and in-service school leaders.
Author Biography
Don Bagin coordinates the graduate programs in educational public relations and corporate public relations at Rowan University, where he is a professor of communications.
Table of Contents
| Preface | |
| About the Authors | |
| Essential Considerations | |
| The Importance of Public Relations | |
| Why School Public Relations? | |
| Suggestions for Improving Public Confidence | |
| Need for a Communication Plan | |
| Public Character of the School | |
| Public Character of the School | |
| The Meaning of Public Opinion | |
| School-Community Relations | |
| Models of Public Relations | |
| Understanding the Community | |
| Sociological Inventory | |
| Power Structures | |
| Measuring Public Opinion | |
| Electronic Surveying | |
| Policies, Goals, and Strategies | |
| Nature of a Policy | |
| Goals and Strategies | |
| Planning Checklist | |
| Administering the Program | |
| The Board of Education | |
| The Superintendentrsquo;s Role | |
| The Administrative Team | |
| Director of School-Community Relations | |
| Standards for Educational Public Relations Professionals | |
| Plans of Organization | |
| Responsibilities of Other Team Members | |
| Budgetary Provisions | |
| Staff Members | |
| General Community Relations Responsibilities | |
| Specific Community Relations Responsibilities | |
| In-Service Training | |
| Relations with Special Publics | |
| The Communicati | |
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