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Communication and Advancement
How to Multiply Your End-of-Year Giving Effectiveness
For most nonprofits, the holidays are when they receive the majority of their income. Do you need a quick plan to mobilize your donors? Tip 1 Create one clear, attainable goal that would have an immediate impact on your school…
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At Your Service: A Conversation with FACTS Account Management
FACTS is known for best-in-class customer service. Our high standards for accountability, trust, and communication with our partners starts with the FACTS account management team. I sat down with two FACTS account management leaders to learn more about how the…
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5 Giving Tuesday Tips for the Busy Professional
Does it feel like #GivingTuesday snuck up on you this year? No worries, we’ll help you look like you’ve been carefully planning for months. If you’re new to nonprofit fundraising, #GivingTuesday is a recent development in the last couple of…
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Tell Your Story and Tell It Well: How to Write an Effective Appeal
The biggest secret about good donor communications is that there is no secret. Doing it well — seeing greater donor engagement and retention — is not a 62-point strategic plan. The best fundraising appeals have commonalties and they are attainable…
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The Importance of Mobile School Management
The next big thing in parent engagement Some would call parenting the ultimate juggling act. Whether they’re balancing the lunch preferences of three different kids or focused on getting the other shoe on Johnny before he boards the school bus,…
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All About Relationships
Why good communication skills go a long way. My sixth-grade teacher was Mrs. Ragbourn. In more than 25 years of being a student, she was, without a shadow of doubt, the single best teacher I had. I remember a lot…
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Where User Experience and K-12 Education Intersect
Now, more than ever, the user experience – how a person or audience feels while interacting with a product or service – plays an integral role in products and services utilized by all K-12 education institutions. To design and implement…
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Why Do We Struggle to Evaluate Teacher Performance and What Biases Impact Feedback?
How Video-Based Observation Can Encourage Open Discussions About Teaching Performance As presenters, we struggle to evaluate our performance due to the distractions and biases we encounter while presenting. The same goes for administrators when evaluating the performance of their teachers….
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Establishing Trust in a Relationship
Why first impressions matter According to Amy Cuddy, author of Presence, when two people meet for the first time, they subconsciously ask one question — “can I trust you?” Every parent I know runs this thought through their head when meeting their child’s…
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Listening in a Mobile World
How to stay present during conversations We all probably like to think we’re a good listener. After all, we wouldn’t be able to interact with families, manage school operations, and spend time with students if we weren’t able to listen,…
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Private Schools in the Age of Drone Parenting
“Drone” parenting is becoming more and more prevalent as millennials have children in greater numbers. While previous generations took a “helicopter” stance on parenting (meaning they hovered over their children and micro-managed all aspects of their day), today’s millennial parents prefer to follow,…
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The Power of Student-to-Student Referrals
Rick Newberry, President of Enrollment Catalyst, featured a FACTS school—First Baptist Academy in Naples, FL—on his blog a couple years ago. He interviewed Rebecca Curran, FBA’s Director of Admissions, about a student-to-student referral program they had implemented called Friend Day. Rick asked Rebecca…
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