What happens when you have a visitor at your church, school or YMCA? When someone comes to worship with you on Sunday or if a parent walks in your preschool and asks for a tour, what happens after they leave? Do you follow-up with them? Read more…
Archive for the ‘Schools’ Category
How Do You Follow Up With Visitors?
3 Signs Your School Could Communicate Better
Think about how much time you spend organizing your school communication efforts with parents and teachers. You’re likely maintaining email lists, sending home lots of forms and files, creating signup sheets, calling parents, sending one-off text messages, and more. Of course there is Facebook and Twitter now too. There really is a lot of communication that needs to take place and schools spend a LOT of time managing how they communicate. So how are you doing? Well here are 3 signs that you could improve your school communication. Read more…
Are Public Schools Teaching Our Kids to Aim Low?
I recently ran into a post with excerpts from best selling author, Seth Godin on the public education system. In the video Mr. Godin asserts that the public school system in America is teaching children to “aim low”.
10 Reasons Your School Needs MemberHub
In conjunction with our August Teacher Appreciation Month Contest we wanted to help schools better understand how they can benefit from using MemberHub. Here are just 10 (actually 11) reasons why your school needs to be using our communication tools. Read more…
The Book Bag Monster: The School Communication Nemesis
“Oops! I forgot to give you that…” The infamous words from your child’s mouth that describe the devilish disappearing act in which the school book bag performs weekly. A distant cousin to the sock-eating dryer, the book bag is a deep and dark hole where endless papers, newsletters and forms fill its void. But is the book bag really to blame? Is it the child, or is it the school? Read more…
Family Engagement…Or Else!
Last year in the state of North Carolina 580 students dropped out of high school due to a lack of engagement between school and household. We’ve always known that it is important to a child’s education for their parents to be involved, but now with the recent passing of the Family Engagement in Education Act, parents are required by federal law to care about their child’s education. Read more…
Teacher Appreciation Contest 2011
MemberHub has partnered with the NCaeyc this August, for the entire month, to host a Facebook contest that will facilitate relationships between early childhood education professionals and give away prizes! The goal of this contest is to encourage school professionals to share ideas and resources…and to win free stuff of course! Read more…
Motivating Volunteers: Actions Speak Louder than Words
“I can teach you skills, but I can’t teach you desire.” It’s the tried and true call to action, which every coach pulls out of their bag of tricks. It’s often a last attempt to inspire their team, to show them that hustle and inspiration make a victory.
Motivation is a tricky animal to conquer; it can be spawned internally or externally, but the best type of motivation springs from a combination of the two. So how do we combine a competitive internal drive with the external desire to achieve a common goal? How do we get every member of our team to be personally invested in the success of the whole organization? This is most relevant to the challenges of recruiting volunteers.
Should Preschools Post Images of Children Online?
In a society where staying connected is of the upmost importance, where do you draw the line of privacy and safety when it comes to posting pictures online? Digital sharing has seeped through the generations from teens to moms to teachers, and as a result is affecting the children of today. When should preschools post adorable pictures of the kids at school, and when can it turn into a threat to their safety? Read more…
Why Parents and Teachers Should use Private Collaboration Tools
As parents of young children my wife and I are in the midst of learning the details of early childhood education. Both of our children attend a preschool at a local church and we’ve also decided to stick with the Wake County Public School system for Elementary school (my wife and I both grew up in this system after all). One thing is becoming clear, parents have a huge impact on the effectiveness of a particular school and private collaboration tools can help make communication easy. Read more…
