How Education Leaders Might Use Blogs

One way education leaders can use blogs is as a communication tool with parents and students. The education leader can post on his/her blog news, upcoming dates, important information, deadlines, etc. By creating a blog with parents and students, the education leader is developing an easier way to communicate with parents and students. Instead of having to call or send out school wide messages, the education leader can simply post the message to his/her blog and respond to any posts from parents on it as well. By developing a parent/student blog, the education leader is still getting the job of communicating accomplished but in a simpler, quicker, new age way.

Another way education leaders can use blogs is to communicate with staff. Like the parent/student blog, the education leader can have another blog for staff members only. The education leader can post the same things here as he/she did in the parent/student blog as well as staff meeting agendas, personnel news, test data, etc. Again, like the parent/student blog, the staff blog will allow staff members to communicate with the education leader in a more effective and easier way. Another positive to creating a staff blog is that is promotes collaboration among ALL of the staff. The education leader can post something he/she wants input on and from there, each staff member who has an opinion may reply. For example, our campus is going through some renovations next year and a lot of my colleagues are asking questions like are they doing this and are they doing that. If my education leader had a blog developed, she could post about the new renovations and allow the staff to respond and ask the questions they have. By doing so, every staff member receives the same information at the same time.