School Communication

Use this template to send to parents and community members if your organization experiences a crisis.

Learn more about crisis management

This fact sheet helps parents and teachers recognize common reactions of children after experiencing a disaster or traumatic event. It highlights reactions by age group, offers tips for how to respond in a helpful way, and recommends when to seek support.

Offers guidance to child-serving behavioral health organizations and professionals who serve communities affected by disaster and terrorism events. This toolkit provides guidance and shares lessons learned from previous incidents, how to you get started using social media, including guidance on developing a social media policy and plan, constructing messages for various disasters and audiences, and managing social media accounts. It also includes sample messages that to modify to better fit specific disasters and terrorism events.

With this toolkit, we want to help the public understand education today, beyond the test scores stressed by politicians and the media, and beyond the image of "the basics" that many have when it comes to what schools are teaching. We want to emphasize how public charter schools are ensuring that individual children are prepared for their next step.

This communications toolkit is intended to provide resources to help you prepare as you communicate information about your school's report card to students, families, staff, board, and your communities.

Included in this kit are key messages and talking points that you can use when crafting your own messages and/or creating communications pieces for your stakeholders.

LINK Strategic Partners (LINK), in partnership with Education Forward DC (Ed Forward DC), are providing ongoing communications tools to support citywide vaccination efforts for Local Education Agencies (LEAs)