Customer Service: 53

Superhero Spotlight
Blog 3 minutes | April 26, 2019

Spotlight on Superheroes: Frontline School Customer Experience

You don’t get a second chance at a first impression. But that doesn’t mean great customer service should stop after your first meeting with a comm...

strategic plan
Blog 3 minutes | April 23, 2019

What's Missing from Your District's Strategic Plan?

Take a look at most any school district strategic plan and you’ll likely find a reference–if not an entire section–devoted to improving...

community engagement
Blog 3 minutes | January 17, 2019

Putting Community Engagement to Work in Your Schools

The pressure is on. As competition for students heats up, K-12 school leaders are rethinking how they engage their communities — and testing new s...

halloween nightmare
Blog 3 minutes | October 31, 2018

Ending the 'Contact Us' Nightmare This Halloween

It’s Halloween. Across the country kids are gearing up for costumes, candy, and scary stories. For K-12 parents ghouls, werewolves, and vampi...

better school transportation
Blog 2 minutes | October 23, 2018

Unlocking Better Transportation: Is Customer Service the Key?

As bussing concerns make national headlines, we're diving into how K12 Insight helps districts around the country ensure superior school transporta...

Friendly receptionist greeting guests in office lobby
Blog 3 minutes | September 4, 2018

Podcast #1: K-12 Schools Double Down on Customer Service in a Spotlight on Customer Experience

For many school leaders, it should come as no surprise: competition has come to K-12 schools. The expansion of choice-friendly state and federal p...

school transportation departments look for answers
Blog 3 minutes | August 16, 2018

Addressing Driver Shortages: School Transportation Departments Seek Answers

Few images personify the dawning of a new school year like the sight of bright yellow buses gliding down local roadways. Behind the scenes, the pro...

customer service approach
Blog 3 minutes | August 2, 2018

Schools Aren't Businesses, But Customer Service Matters

In 2002, Jamie Robert Vollmer wrote an Education Week article called A Blueberry Story, detailing his experience delivering a speech to encourage t...

staff accountability
Blog 3 minutes | July 10, 2018

Let’s Talk!: Simplifying School Customer Service and Accountability

When you work in a K-12 school, you are always accountable, in some way, to the community you serve. This is true in the political sense–comm...

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Blog 3 minutes | April 13, 2018

Setting the Gold Standard: What's in a School's Name?

I’m a child of the 80s, so I often look at life through the lens of a TV sitcom. Remember Cheers?  Set in a Boston bar, it was a place where Norm a...