The MSPRA Podcast

ATTENTION ALL MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL PR PROFESSIONALS: It is officially time to register for the 2026 Annual Conference, a two-day event scheduled for June 1 and June 2. Hosted at Community Bank in Flowood, MS, this event will allow for Mississippi School PR Professionals to hear from wonderful speakers speaking on topics pertinent to our field.  The Annual Conference will also hold MSPRA's Awards of Excellence luncheon where the works and efforts of MSPRA members will be celebrated.  The deadline to sign up for the 2026 Annual Conference is Thursday, May 14. The deadline to submit entries for the Awards of Excellence is Monday, May 4.  Visit www.msspra.org to join, to register and for more information.

Kate Crowder, Communications Supervisor for Germantown Municipal School District in Germantown, Tennessee, gives a deep dive on Digital Accessibility and ADA Compliance. With Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, or WCAG, deadlines looming, school districts across America are tasked with ensuring all website material, social media material and other forms of communications meet ADA Compliance.  This episode contains extremely valuable information that school PR professionals do not need to overlook.  Kate is a former president of the Tennessee School Public Relations Association and currently serves as the NSPRA Southeast region VP.  For more, visit www.msspra.org.

In this episode of the MSPRA Podcast brought to you by the Mississippi School Public Relations Association, we talk Jill Knox, Communications Director with the Oxford School District in Oxford, Mississippi. Jill was recently named as the Southeast Region recipient of NSPRA’s Emerging Leaders Award and shares with us how her team utilizes their individual skills to improve communication efforts for district. She also shared about the importance of building relationships with first responders in the event of an emergency. Hosted by Clinton Public School District's Director of Communications Robert Chapman, this podcast is a tool professional communicators and educators can use to gain insights into educational practices and professional decisions by hearing from some of the finest School PR professionals in the state of Mississippi. To become a member of MSPRA or to find out more information, visit www.msspra.org.

In this inaugural episode of the MSPRA Podcast brought to you by the Mississippi School Public Relations Association, we talk with the 2024 MSPRA Communicator of the Year Ja'Leasa Bolden, Communications Director form Moss Point School District is Moss Point, Mississippi. Ja'Leasa talks about some of her best practices as well as how her school district dealt with a natural disaster threatening the start of the 2023 school year. She even talks about the long range plan of leaving the next generation's school communications professionals with a system they can use and succeed in. Hosted by Clinton Public School District's Director of Communications Robert Chapman, this podcast is a tool professional communicators and educators can use to gain insights into educational practices and professional decisions by hearing from some of the finest School PR professionals in the state of Mississippi. To become a member of MSPRA or to find out more information, visit www.msspra.org.