Hashtags and Headlines: Marketing for School Leaders [Hardcover]

Todays administrators need to understand why, when, where, and how to market their schools to continue to serve their communities in the rapidly-changing educational climate. This book will highlight effective and tangible marketing practices for k-12 educators. The book is envisioned to be very reader friendly and offer practical solutions to current challenges that school leaders are facing. The authors envision school leaders being able to open the book and start applying the information. The book offers ideas and solutions to marketing challenges both big and small. It will also walk administrators through the process of establishing a marketing plan specific to educational contexts, help them navigate their competitive environment, and address marketing communication issues ranging from social media to crisis planning.

Azure D.S. Angelov, Ph.D. has more than 20 years practical and theoretical experience in p-20 education. She has written numerous books and peer reviewed articles, educated thousands of future teachers and educational leaders, and brought in over $78 million in grant awards for schools.

Deidre M. Pettinga, MBA, MA, PhD has more than thirty years professional marketing experience which run the spectrum from applied to theoretical. She has worked as Chief Marketing Officer for a national nonprofit, and has taught marketing at the college level for more than twenty years.

David F. Bateman, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Special Education at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania. He uses his knowledge of litigation relating to special education to assist school districts in providing appropriate supports for students with disabilities and to prevent and to recover from due process hearings.

In the current education climate, effective administrators need to understand, support, and implement marketing strategies to assure the success of their program. The authors have captured the power olC,