SKILLS: Nurturing the Parent/School Connection

The Leadership Skills courses can be accomplished online in one to two hours. You’ll gain an understanding of the topic, obtain resources, and acquire insights that can immediately be applied to your practice. You’ll also be invited to take a deeper dive and register for an Impact course.
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What you are going to Learn:

How do you know if your school’s communication channels with families are effective? Deidre Fischer explores the “why” and “how” of healthy communication and offers how to assess the strength of your current mechanisms and set plans for greater effectiveness.

Skills Course Outcomes:

  • Apply useful guidelines to ascertain a leader’s communication effectiveness for school-home-community partnerships.
  • Apply new communication practices that align messages and positively impact learning.

Deidre Fischer

Consultant, Head of School
About
Deidre Fischer is an experienced international Head of School having worked and lived in 7 countries (including Australia, Mongolia, Saudi Arabia, China, and the Philippines) over a career spanning 30 plus years. She describes her current work as an 'activator of learning and member of the gig economy' through her company: DF Education. You can learn more about her work from her website: www.deidrefischer.com.au (Links to an external site.)

Her goal is to improve student learning through her work with School Board members, leaders, teaching and non-teaching staff. Her expertise reflects depth and range of experiences and her mode of work ranges from statistical analysis, to workshops on-site, always with practical applications for the participants.