Most school marketing advice looks two years ahead. This looks twenty, and asks what happens when parents stop reading our websites because their AI reads them first. School leaders should be asking whether they're preparing for that future, or still protecting the past.
Gen Z isn't afraid of AI. They're suspicious of it and for good reason. Having watched social media harm their generation, they're asking whether AI simply removes the struggle that makes learning real. School leaders should be asking the same question.
Authenticity is the alignment between what a school says and what families experience. So if your website talks about your school being a caring, pastoral led school but when a family arrives they fail to see this you’ll be running into problems.
When it comes to starting a podcast for school marketing and recruitment, I’m sometimes told the new podcast project will only go ahead if the SLT can see a clear ROI on the investment.
Lisa will hate me for writing this. You might not know her, she’s the person who publishes the content on the company LinkedIn page and sometimes replies to emails for me when I’m ridiculously busy.