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Public Relations and The Professional School Counselor

Discover the importance of school public relations for professional school counselors in shaping positive community partnerships, promoting effective practices, and managing image problems. Learn key functions, obstacles, and benefits of school PR, including strategies for creating a strong counselor program image. Explore tools and tactics for successful communication and engagement with stakeholders.

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Public Relations and The Professional School Counselor

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  1. Public Relations and The Professional School Counselor

  2. What Is School Public Relations? • Establishing and promoting partnerships in the community • Conveying information about effective school practices NW Regional Educational Laboratory

  3. Functions Of School Public Relations • Promotes community input • Anticipates image problems and provide solutions • Acts as key contacts for the media • Designs objective, informational materials for budget and bond issue campaigns NW Regional Educational Laboratory

  4. Functions Of School Public Relations • Designs all levels of communications • Conducts public relations research Interprets survey results for management • Creates avenues for student/staff recognition NW Regional Educational Laboratory

  5. Public Relations For School Counselors • Determine how you will position yourself • Make your students, parents, and community promises that you can keep • Build your image on positive ideas School Promotion, Publicity, and Public Relations

  6. Designing A School Public Relations Plan • Find out what the public is saying • Develop a strategic school counselor plan and program • Form a public relations committee • Use data to develop a PR plan

  7. School Public Relations Strategies • Should address parent feelings • Should provide knowledge and information • Determine need and provide value for stakeholders

  8. Successful School Public Relations • Leadership • All school staff • School facility • Communications • Parents • Business • Voters with no children NW Regional Educational Laboratory

  9. Obstacles • Convincing administration and teachers • Cost • Lack of active participation • Unrealistic goals

  10. School PR Benefits • Explains the real functions of educators • Helps provide direction for a student centered school • Has a cumulative effect School Promotion, Publicity, and Public Relations

  11. Benefits Of School Public Relations • Establishes objectives, procedures, and practices to meet the needs of the school • Explains facts about the school that might not be known School Promotion, Publicity, and Public Relations

  12. School Counseling Program Image • Shaped by public perception • Image depends on the different subjective experiences of the people who interact with the services • Good image is critical Public Relations Toolbox

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