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The presentation is part of a special superintendents' luncheon being held during the annual National School Public Relations Association convention at the Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace.
Huff is an officer in the NSPRA, which will hold its convention through Wednesday.
According to the advertising for the convention, the cost of attending the seminar is $715 if you are an NSPRA member, but if a superintendent wants to take a public relations official from his or her school district, each person will receive a $200 discount.
Some of the topics the school officials will hear about during the conference include the following:
-Building the Trust You Need for Your School District to Succeed
-Getting the Votes You Need to Win
-Creaing a Vision, Unifying a Community, and Transforming Learning
-Shaping Your District's Identity Through Storyrelling
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"Shaping Your District's Identity Through Storytelling"
Well, at least he's honest about it^^^
"Crying for the camera. How to convince people you really are all that and so much more."
Now, you all are not being fair. CJ has done everything he is speaking about, with that minor exception of the trust issue. But when has the staff ever trusted admin? Two universes.
However, in his defense, he has gotten the votes he needs--7-0 from the Board and 45 votes to spare on the bond. He has a vision. It's not his fault if no one sees it but CJ, but still, he has a vision--build it, and they (media) will come, is the closest I can get to describing it. He has unified the community. I would be willing to bet that the vast majority are unifed concerning the district. We all want him gone. He has definitely transformed learning. There's ample data to support that. Since CJ Huff came to town, our scores have definiltely changed. They just get lower and lower every year. And storytelling? He's an expert at it. People pay him $8,000 to hear the Hero of the Joplin Tornado myth. And he tells stories to the Board all the time. He's really good at it, or must be, because they always vote in his favor.
So there you go. He's only partially fibbing. Of course, a partial lie is still a lie, and we all know where liars go, don't we? The same place thieves go.
I think he should work off the theme of last year's Model Schools Conference--Making Do with Less! Shoot, they're making do with less in the sense of reading teachers, secretaries, and resource officers! The new buildings have all had corners cut tremendously. What's a little water coming up under the doors going to hurt? And if those doors don't lock right, well heck, we're all neighbors, right? What's to fear from an unlocked door? And then, truly, mold in the buildings could serve as a science project. And the cabinets falling off the wall can be a project for the construction classes. It's all good here in R8. Just a matter of perspective.
How about a speech in which he explains how to use 6.5 miles of ribbon in order to get $15,000 worth of good out of it? That would be interesting to hear. The ultimate CJ speech challenge.
Perhaps we will get lucky and CJ will find a new home while he's traveling. It would be a win-win situation.
Maybe we could send our view of how C.J. has dealt with these topics. Just think how much money we could save the district by not sending C.J. and however many of his Admin team he wants to claim are PR officials.
Building the Trust...for District to Succeed: Couldn't say, still waiting for that to happen.
Getting the Votes...: Make sure all the staff is aware on voting day that HE knows who voted.
Creating a Vision: I'm with 12:12 on this one. C.J. is the only one who can see the vision.
Unifying Community: Yes again 12:12, none of us can stand him or his "Team."
Transforming Learning: Force teachers to change grades to make sure everybody passes, alter attendance records, make sure there is plenty of "collaboration areas" so if the kids don't want to be in class there is someplace for them to hang out with their friends.
Storytelling: Scrunch your face up while faking you are trying to hold back those tears. Then tell the "I Saved Joplin Single-handedly After The Tornado" story.
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