Best Practices for Producing School Newsletters

Introduction

This section is designed for administrators, secretaries and teachers who have responsibility for publishing a school newsletter. The intent is to present a simple, efficient standardized routine that shares tasks and produces a consistent and professional result. The comments/guidelines presented here can also be applied to brochures, pamphlets and other public circulars.

MicrosoftWord XP and MicrosoftPublisher XP are used in the examples. If you are working with other software, only the general processes will be of significance to you.

In simplest terms the process is as follows:
1. Prepare content in a correct and standardized (professional) format, and
2. Insert the content into layouts already created by design professionals.