Last 12 months I wrote about the qualities of a superb college district web site. Unfortunately, the varsity district by which my youngsters go to highschool did not learn that weblog publish or did not take any motion based mostly on it. That was pushed residence this week as we tried to seek out the varsity provide lists and the schedule for the beginning of the varsity for our youngsters.
The apparent place to search for a faculty provide checklist and the schedule for the beginning of the varsity 12 months is the varsity’s web site. Unfortunately, that has been up to date because the finish of the final college 12 months. Supply lists? Nowhere to be discovered. Schedule? The calendar for August is totally clean.
So how did we discover the data that we would have liked? A buddy who used to work within the district shared a Facebook publish with me. At that time it was three days outdated! And what if I did not use Facebook (like an growing variety of individuals)? We’d nonetheless be questioning about provide lists and schedules.
As I wrote final 12 months, make the data that oldsters want the primary and most blatant factor in your college’s web site. Nobody goes to the varsity’s web site in August to seek out out the outcomes of a fundraising problem from the earlier spring nor do they care about photos from a employees improvement assembly.
On a associated observe, listed here are my ideas on newsletters versus social media and blogs for tech coaches.
p.s. I nonetheless suppose it is prison that public colleges do not present all the sources that college students want. Supply lists that value households $50+ per scholar symbolize a monetary hardship for a lot of households and places their youngsters at an obstacle from the primary day of faculty.