Monthly Workshops - Tips & Tactics

Tips & Tactics provides relevant, engaging opportunities to broaden your knowledge and connect with colleagues. Register for the complete 2024-2025 series today!

Tips & Tactics provides professionals of all types whose job it is to communicate to school communities with leading professional development, which helps attendees to stay on top of the latest best practices in school communications.

Tips & Tactics session begin at 9 AM and run until 12 PM.   

2024-25 Dates and Topics:

10/11/2024 - Schaumburg District 54 - REGISTRATION NOW OPEN
- Leading with Impact and The Importance of Message, presented by NSPRA President Heidi Vega, APR.

12/13/2024 - NIU Naperville
- Idea Sharing: Unwrapping Tips, Tricks and Solutions for Your School PR Challenges. Bring your challenges, questions, ideas and solutions to share during our annual idea-sharing session.
Sponsored by Class Intercom

1/10/2025 - NIU Naperville
- School Safety: It Takes a Village. Join us for a panel presentation to hear from PIOs, safety directors and everyone in between on how to work together to make our schools safer.
Sponsored by ParentSquare

2/14/2025 - NIU Naperville
- Strategic Communications Workshop – the RPIE Process (Research, Planning, Implementation, Evaluation). Presented by Carla Erdey, APR, Homewood-Flossmoor Community High School District 233.

3/14/2025 - Lockport District 205
- Equity and School PR: How You Can Support Your District’s Equity Plan.
Sponsored by Alboum Translation Services

4/11/2025 - NIU Naperville
- Community Engagement: How Building Relationships Can Build Futures. Join us for a panel presentation to gain insight into the value of community engagement – including engaging with community groups, workforce development, students, parents/guardians and more.

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