Scenario Response Writing

Scenario Response Writing

2015-2016
Assignment 4

OMER DOGAN

EDUC 5320 Communication & Public Relations for School Administrators

Dr. Carol Henrichs, Ed.D.

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A FRESH BEGINNING FOR A BETTER FUTURE

In the world, all organisms have communication in one or two ways. They find their food
with this communication. They protect their land and their shelter with the same method. They
find their mate by using the same way. Sometimes this method is a sound, a smell, a vibration, a
dance, a color and a chemical. All organisms (Human, animals, plants, fungi, and one celled
living things) are using different types of communication methods. When they find the right tool
for communication, they can get everything whatever they want. The peace is everywhere in the
world if the human is not in the place. All organisms know which communication tools they will
use to solve their problem. As human, we are the smartest organism on earth we think; however,
we are lack of communication. When we look at the world to all countries, we see fights
everywhere because of miscommunication. According to article named Communication is
everywhere Claire Lam says that Having good communication skills is very important in our
lives. We need to communicate with others no matter what we do. Therefore, we should always
improve our communication skills and get along with others in order to enrich our lives. So
Communication is the key to solve all the problems in all society. A school is a society too.
Every problem and issue starts with miscommunication or misunderstanding. To my
understanding, in this school the case is very complicated and need immediate action to try to
solve it. Otherwise the education cannot continue in this building. Every issue can solve easily
with meetings in the school. However, the principal should be very careful about the time and
people who will join the meetings. I will be the principal in the school so I will take the control
of the situation. I as the principal of the school will make a plan for meeting and I will add all the

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meetings on my calendar. I will start meetings with my admins. When my admins accept the
condition of the case, they will help with all their power.
The first thing is communication accessibility. As admins we need to open our doors to
all employees in the school. Everyone can see and talk to us easily. So we will change our
regular policy to open door policy. We need to remember that communication is the key for
everything. When our admins listen to our school employees they will find the solution together.
The second thing is going to be announcements for staff, students and parents. All the
people in the school and out of school should know what will happen in the school as activities
and events. These events and activities will be easily accessible to everyone. So we are going to
put every event with details on our school website, reach the parents with school reach system by
phone and also email to all parents. Even we can send Wednesday news to the parents with their
children. So we need to use all the communication tools to reach all the parents. In these days
there are some social media tools that everyone uses. These are Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, and
Instagram. Not everyone is using all but they use some of them. As admins of the school, we
need to be sure that everyone will know what will happen in the school. When Lisa Chesser
explain the social media tools in education in her writing she says that Connecting with each
other comes to us more easily now that we can just tap away on a keyboard and chat with a
person who lives over 3000 miles away. Finding information knows no boundaries with Google
on every computer in the world. As educators, this means access to more, faster, which is
thrilling and mindboggling. However, it can also be frustrating and confusing with so much to
choose from. According to her thoughts, the social media tools are kind of ocean. When we go
so deep we can be lost in it. So we are going to choose the most used by parents and students.

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Internal and external communications are very important to be successful. We cannot

separate them and cannot say one of them is more important than the other. They are connected
to each other. However if you want to take one of them as base, I would rather to think internal
communication is little bit ahead of the external one. When we keep our communication stronger
between our staff and other workers, we will eliminate the most problems easily. No one should
afraid of asking questions and telling their thoughts to any admin. If they keep their issues in
their mind, they will start talking with each other and it will cause more problems. Sometimes
the teachers are not the solution center so there is no meaning to talk to issues to each other. So
as a principal I need to keep gossiping in the lowest level and I need to encourage my staff to
talking to me when they have any kind go issues. When I become the center of place which is
talked issues, I can know what the problem is and try to solve it. After we built this trust we can
start talk about the strategies and our goal. The writer of The Power of after School and the
Future of Learning says that Think about the key elements of any communications plangoal,
audience, message, messengers and tactics. In big or small education center, we need a method
and tactics to solve the issues. Our goals will be known and they will be checked all the time if
there is any progress.
It is very important to let the parents know what kinds of events are happening in the
school. However there is another place that needs to know what is happening in the school too.
This center is our central office or superintendent office or support center. I need to update the
events before and after. They need to know what event we will be holding and what the
feedbacks of the event are. One superintendent is responsible more than one school. Mostly they
are responsible from 5- 10 schools. They have a lot of responsibilities in the school. They need to
be sure everything goes very smoothly. The other responsibility of a superintendent is to work

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with key group and develop some ideas for the school environment. So superintendents are not
working with some problem cases. They are trying to answer these kinds of questions. How can
we make our school environment more secure? How can we improve our teaching methods and
be more successful? How can we get our staff on the high level of quality? So a superintendent
should know the events to get some ideas for the other school and if the school needs help to
give them some advises well. According to North Sanpete School District; Superintendents are
not only inspectors also they have a lot of duties and responsibilities. These are a couple of them:
1.The superintendent will be responsible for development of the mission, goals, and
strategies for the district.
2. The superintendent will establish, subject to Board approval, rules and regulations for
the implementation of Board policies.
3. The superintendent will make available to all district personnel and to the general
public all newly proposed policies.
4. The superintendent will keep the Board of Education informed as to how policies are
being carried out and the effectiveness of said policies.
5. The superintendent will anticipate problems, where possible, and recommend
appropriate policies to the Board before problems actually arise.
6. The superintendent will follow the direction set by the district strategic plan and keep
the Board of Education informed of progress on the plan.
I am aware of that parents are very important legs of the education. To inform them for
the events are not going to be enough. I know that we need to involve our parents to our school

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events too. When they are in the events, they will accept more responsibilities and also some
parents have very good experience on some events. So they can help us more. When we have
home visit, we can talk about our events and we can ask them for help. So home visits are
another way for external communication and I would encourage my staff to visit our students
home. There are a lot of benefits of home visiting and a lot of articles which are explain the
benefits of it. In schools which have more parents involving in the events ,there are more
successes. An article in education world says that "It's the best relationship builder you can
have," according to Jo-Lynn Nemeth, principal of McCoy Elementary School in Kansas City,
Missouri, which has been doing home visits for four years. "It's been a positive thing. Building
relationships are key. Now we have 90 percent attendance at parent conferences. People call at
the beginning of August to see when their home visits will be.
As conclusion , I would like to summarize everything that I said in my article here.
a-Try to make a positive atmosphere in and out of school.
b-Schedule all the necessary meeting with admins ,teachers ,parents and students.
c-Let the superintendents know about the events in the school.
d-Involve the parents into the events.
e-Make sure that staff are aware of the benefits of home visit and encourage them.
f-Have more staff activities to keep their friendship stronger.

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References:
1.http://clarieslam.weebly.com/blog/communication-is-everywhere
2. http://www.opencolleges.edu.au/informed/features/social-media-tools-for-education/
3. http://www.statewideafterschoolnetworks.net/content/internalexternal-communications
4. https://www.nsanpete.org/index.php/districtpolicies/districtpoliciesadministration/127superintendents-duties-and-responsibilities.html
5. http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/admin/admin342.shtml