School PR Happy Hour

Justin and Becca Latham have a candid conversation about the importance of meeting people where they are in times of uncertainty. We hope you enjoy this episode!

We are obsessed with professional development at School PR Happy Hour, and Erin had the opportunity to sit down with one of the most fun and innovative Strategic Communication professors around. Dr. Lambiase heads up the Certified Public Communicator program at Texas Christian University and talks about the value in having a strong strategic plan.

Skyler Hefley from Tyler ISD joins Justin to talk about a variety of topics centered around Marketing and the Customer Experience. Skyler is a wrapping up his first year in School PR and has brought a new energy to this industry. We hope you enjoy meeting Skyler from Tyler!

We are starting off season 3 strong with School PR's greatest cheerleader!  Andrea Gribble, founder of Social Schools for EDU, joins Erin to talk all things social media and staying positive in an ever evolving world.

Erin and Justin kick off season 3 with a life check-in, season forecast, and a little bit of pandemic talk. We hope you are all taking care of yourselves and your loved ones during yet another stressful start to a school year!

Earlier this week, Erin and Justin jumped on Youtube and Twitter to recap and reflect on the second seasons of School PR Happy Hour. We want to thank Class Intercom for sponsoring the show this season. Our guest this year were amazing and we love all of our School PR Family! We will see you September 1 for Season 3!

What better way to close out season 2 than with an internal comms pro?  This year has been tough, and any true PR practitioner knows that your very first audience should be your internal audience. Cathy Kedjidjian, APR, joins Erin for the final content episode of Season 2 to talk Internal Comms, and making the HR department your BFF.

Justin is joined by one of his favorite people, Adam Harris for a very unscripted and unplanned conversation about our roles in School PR as we head into the home stretch of this school year. Hope you enjoy hearing from Adam as much as we enjoyed producing this episode.

In a world full of demands, our #SchoolPR superwomen are handling everything - at the office and at home.  Kristin Magette, APR, joins Erin to talk about the added pressures that we place on ourselves as women to be everything in the board room AND in our personal lives.

Krystyna Baumgartner, APR (@kmbaumgartner) joins Justin to talk about content calendars, content strategies, and everything else content. If you need to be more intentional and organized with your approach to content, this is a great conversation!

Happy Spring Break School PR! Our work is tough, and there never seem to be enough hours to accomplish all of our goals.  Despite our best intentions, we can't all be experts in everything. In this episode, we talk with Sarah Williamson, owner of SWPR group, an educational technology PR agency based on the west coast.  Sarah talks about the partnerships that can be built between School P...

Nicole Lyons from Keller ISD (TX) joins Justin from the lobby of the hotel at the TSPRA 2021 Conference in Denton, Texas to discuss Keller ISD's amazing Campus PR Reps Program. These PR Reps assist the district communications team in telling the story of Keller ISD. Enjoy!

This month's episode is all about what it's like to be the KID of the School PR person. Hear from Fiona McCann and Kinleigh Dearing on what they think about late board meetings, football games and pandemics.  This conversation is a glimpse into the mind of two elementary students who, even through all the crazy, still love school... still love learning... and still have fun.

In this episode, Justin is joined by Nicole Kirby, APR who was recently elected as the President-Elect for NSPRA. The two discuss the importance of NSPRA and spend. quite a bit of time discussing what being a parent has taught them about SchoolPR. Enjoy and have a great week SchoolPR Family!

Across the world, people were delighted to say goodbye to the year 2020.  School PR was no exception!  As a welcome back from hiatus, Erin kicks off 2021 by talking with brand new NSPRA Executive Director, Barbara Hunter, APR.  It's going to be a great year School PR!

Justin is joined by Dane Dellenbach and they discuss the origin of #K12PRChat and also spend time talking about what it means to be a Strategic Leader. Dane talks about how seeing a tweet about someone working non-stop and it never being enough really put him into deep thought on the issues facing strategic leaders in education.

School PR is a welcoming community, but sometimes it can be intimidating if you're new.  New NSPRA board member, Joshua Sauer, APR, joins Erin to talk being a young leader, getting involved in the School PR community, and the beauty of telling your authentic story.

David O joins Justin to talk about being named to the 2020 Class of NSPRA's 35 under 35. David talks about the importance of self-care, emerging trends in School PR and also some of the obstacles he forecasts in the coming months and years as we continue to work through this pandemic. This was a very raw and uncut conversation. You will have to stick around until the end to see if David finally re...

Even in the best of times, PR professionals need a reminder to stop and prioritize themselves. 2020 is not the best of times!  Former PR pro, Mark Mohammadpour, APR, talks health, wellness, and most importantly - choosing ourselves.

If you haven't seen the back to school video "Kid Superintendent", it's time to go watch it and then come back to this episode to hear the creative journey that our friend Kristin Boyd Edwards just wrapped up. What started as a weekend project, lander Kristin and Reading Schools on Good Morning America. Justin talks creative process and handling going viral in the latest episode of School PR Happy...

No matter where you practice #SchoolPR, there's a model for a resource, or service center to help you out.  No one does this better than Rachel Frost, Chief Communications Officer at Region 10 in Texas. Thanks Rachel for all of the support you've provided to School PR Pros during the COVID-19 pandemic, and for reminding us that balance is possible!

Erin and Justin talk about the struggles of COVID-19 and deciding if the second season of SPRHH was going to happen. Welcome back Happy Hour Friends!

Whew... what a season! We have officially reached the end of Season 1 of SPRHH. It's time for us to take a short break and recharge some before we dive into creating another season of School PR Content. Before shutting down shop, Erin and Justin hosted an online live video recap of Season 1. This is the audio from that event. Have a great summer School PR, we will see you back here Sept. 1 with a...

Throwing content at the wall and hoping it will stick - it's the nightmare of professional communicators everywhere.  So what do you do, in an effort to create authentic engagement on your social platforms? Our final full episode of Season 1 features Justin Elbert from Klein ISD, a long-time school PR Practitioner with a speciality in engaging content and analytics.

Justin was joined by his new friend and keynote speaker Aaron Davis to talk about a variety of topics that School PR pros are facing during this COVID-19 pandemic. We hope you leave this episode encouraged and ready to finish this historic school year strong.