Educational Leaders and Blogs...

Educational leaders can and SHOULD be using blogs.  Present day students are digital natives.  Their parents are digitally savvy as well.  As a means of communication, educational leaders should take advantage of this technology.  A note home may or may not make it past the schoolhouse door, but an email that goes directly to a parent's smart-phone has a pretty high rate of success of getting read by the parent.  The leader might actually get a response fairly quickly, depending on the parent’s availability.

Our educational partners are also tech oriented.  I would much rather get an email or a text message from an associate than have to wait for a letter delivered by the U.S. Postal Service.  Chances are high that it would get lost or delayed or delivered to the wrong address.  Mail that is sent to our district’s central office can take quite some time to make it to its destination.  Electronic communication though is nearly instantaneous.

Blogs, or any other form of electronic communication, give the audience the opportunity to go back and read the information provided when it is most convenient to them as well.  24 hours a day, the blog is available.  This helps to reduce the challenges faced by miscommunication.