R&L Education / Nspra, Rle -Nat'l School Public Rel Ass
Pages: 102
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Trim: 6½ x 9¼
978-1-4758-0851-3 • Hardback • February 2014 • $55.00 • (£42.00)
978-1-4758-0852-0 • Paperback • February 2014 • $33.00 • (£25.00)
978-1-4758-0853-7 • eBook • February 2014 • $31.00 • (£25.00)
Kelly Wachel is the Public Information Officer for Center School District in south Kansas City. She spends part of her time helping schools produce high achieving students and the other part raising her three kids, Maggie, Abe, and Lydia, with her husband Matt – usually the two are not mutually exclusive.
Dedication
Quote Page
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One – Childhood
Chapter Two – It’s the People
Chapter Three – What Makes a Good School District Great?
Chapter Four – What Are Our Students Like Today?
Chapter Five – Relationships and Responsibility
Chapter Six – Having Quality Systems
Chapter Seven – The Academic Standards
Chapter Eight – Inclusion
Chapter Nine – Keeping Tension on the System
Chapter Ten – The Heart of a School
Bibliography
This book makes an important contribution because it not only focuses on academic importance, but it also focuses on creating an environment in the school where parents and students feel supported and nurtured. It reemphasizes that schools should be the heart and soul of the community. We are all related.
— Robert Bartman, Superintendent and former Missouri Commissioner of Education
Read this book. It’s a good lesson for all of us.
— Todd Whitaker, educator, international presentor, and author of What Great Principals Do Differently: Fifteen Things that Matter Most
What Kelly Wachel has done is to clearly emphasize through results the power of communication and engagement in our schools that leads to a cohesive climate leading to student-centered achievement.. I often say that a school communication leader’s “raison d’etre” is to improve teaching and learning. Follow the approach and insight in this practical book, and you too will become a force in your entire school community for teaching and learning. It does not get any better than that!
— Rich Bagin, executive director, National School Public Relations Association, Rockville, Maryland