kartoonEDU

Big news at kartoonEDU today! Our districts and their administrators are going to love working with Annie McGavren. She shares our passion for education and has a deep knowledge of how to make every one of our efforts more successful. kartoonEDU is growing; a number of other incredible people also working behind-the-scenes. We can’t wait to introduce you to them, when the time is right!

Tomorrow is the first day of school in Lebanon, N.H. and their school district wants drivers to remember that the most dangerous part of a student's day is at their bus stop. This video is a light—but compelling—reminder to drivers about the importance of driving safely around buses, but also highlights the incredible coordination that school transportation departments have to manage every day. Ask us how you can customize and license this video for your community. We can also create broadcast licenses if you wanted to take a PSA to the airwaves! #backtoschool #schoolpr #schoolbussafety #schoolsafety

This video makes money for schools! Every school district in America relies on the free and reduced lunch program not just to fill children's bellies, but to allocate key federal funds to their district. It's essential that households fill out this form every year. Here's a better way to get them to do it, designed by White Mountains Regional School District in New Hampshire! Many thanks to Marion Anastasia for her creativity and vision for making this kartoon a reality. Any school can relicense and customize this video to make it one-of-a-kind for their district at a price that's a fraction of video production. Ask us how! #schoollunch #schoolfunding #publicschools #titlei #schoolpr

Burlington Public Schools is live with their new informational series on the Fox Hill Elementary School Building project! The five pillars in this video each form separate, shorter clips for use on web and social, while the longer version will be shared at public events like informational sessions and town meetings. Many thanks to Superintendent Eric Conti, Steve Brown, MCPPO, CDT, and Donna DiNisco, who led this project through to completion—a wonderful team to work with! #schoolpr #schoolconstruction #msba

It's one of the first videos we produced, but Peabody Public Schools is readying a big rollout in the new school year of our anti-bullying video. Josh Vadala, Ed.D. had a clear plan for this communication: reduce concerns of young parents, get their concerns to the right places, and reinforce the core values they've been building into their student community. This communication also has a clear return on investment: reducing time and resources in the wrong places while getting parent communications to the right places. Even better if we're alleviating concerns before that happens! Peabody also has this video ready to go in Spanish and Portuguese... what is your district doing to prepare students and young families for the new school year? #schoolpr #communications #publiceducation #antibullying #upstanders

Our summer rollout continues, but on this one—we got scooped! Town of Reading, MA and Reading Public Schools are live today with their Killam Elementary School Building Project! #schoolpr #msba #communications #municipalities

It's time to start rolling out some of the initiatives our districts have planned for the 2024-25 school year! We're starting in Nashoba Regional School District, where Superintendent Kirk Downing, Finance Director Ross Mulkerin, and their indispensable Communications guru Bridget Hannigan have done extraordinary work improving budget transparency in their district. Three highlights of this effort: 1| *Durability*: we went to great lengths to produce three separate videos that would educate the community and never go stale. 2| *Flexibility*: Nashoba enjoyed an "originator discount" for coming up with these topics, but they're built in a way for any district to customize and license into their own, one-of-a-kind communication. 3| *Accessibility*: Nashoba's _Finance Operations Center_ page on their website is the gold standard into how to display a complex set of information and content into a strong, visual layout. No matter the topic, this is a fantastic way to layout information on school district websites: https://lnkd.in/ea5WNGFd

We are so excited to share this "Supercut" of SAU 21's Portrait of a Learner! This video is the first of a new offering we're creating for districts: a "content toolkit" that provides even more flexibility, durability, and accessibility to their visual communications. A special thank you David Hobbs for his vision and enthusiasm to be the first! Here's how it works: we create a universal look (SAU 21's beautiful look was already done!) and build a reservoir of diverse content for them to publish over time. In this case, we also dedicated a day to shoot these interviews with SAU21's wonderful students, which will yield a treasure trove of additional material to reinforce their strategic goals. Already, other districts are doing the same to build visual content toolkits around their strategic planning, recruiting, and wellness initiatives. Let's talk about how we can build yours! #schoolpr #visualcontent #schoolcommunications #k12education

Congratulations to Bill Burkhead and #Scituate Public Schools on their town election results, a nearly 2-to-1 margin of approval of their new elementary school project! #k12construction #schoolpr https://lnkd.in/en4ZyxVN

So happy to be working with you on this project!