Details:  These virtual trainings will be hosted on Zoom. A link will be shared with participants several days prior to the training. The presenter, Keith Gilbert, suggests participants don't try to follow along in InDesign during the training. This allows him to cover more ground. He will share handouts beforehand so you can take notes as you go along. Depending on…

Please join MinnSPRA for a post-election analysis on November 13 with Bill Morris and Peter Leatherman from The Morris Leatherman Company, moderated by Bob Noyed, APR of CESO. 1-2:30 p.m. - Panel discussion with Q&A from attendees 2:30-4 p.m. - Breakout sessions/"social hour" to dig in and discuss more with your MinnSPRA colleagues   Bob Noyed, APR, Director of Strategy at CESO Bob is a public relations and communication leader with over 30 years of experience in the K12 space.…

Whether you work mostly on print projects, or you’re more of a jack-of-all-trades within the Adobe Suite, the one thing we all have in common is that there just aren’t enough hours in the day. This workshop will deliver a litany of hot tips in the latest versions of Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign that guarantee to save you time.

  Like many other professionals, school communicators have long accepted systemic injustice and racial inequity in our work and relegated those ideals to a belief that that’s just the way things are. In our personal lives we may have taken up the charge of change and advocacy, but in our professional lives we have been told to “tread lightly” to protect ourselves and our organization. We’ve been conditioned not to be too political, not to upset too many people, not…

Join us on Wednesday, Dec. 16 from 11:30 am - 1 pm when Nicole Kirby, APR, will share best practices from her district and other top professionals around the U.S. and Canada on how survive doing school PR in a pandemic - and how to hopefully come out better for it when this is all over. Learn actual strategies and tactics that Nicole and others have used to get through the challenges we’re all facing now, from managing families’ anxiety…

  Well, the journey continues for Good Trouble PR. In the last episode, our heroes dove headfirst into a world of self-discovery and reflection to fight inequity and racism in school communications. Soon, they will continue their quest by hearing firsthand from those who started Good Trouble Principals, including Mauri Friestleben from Minneapolis Public Schools. This conversation, as well as learning how to have Good Trouble conversations in general, will inform how they move forward in their endeavor. Join them! Good…