Our Services
How can we help you?
Our team is available to tackle isolated issues or manage communications for the full school year. Do you need ESD 112 communications support? The answer is YES.
Turnkey Communications Services
Strategic messaging, public relations, and crisis management tailored to your community.
Bond & Levy Strategy
When school districts have a levy, capital levy, or bond measure coming up, they trust ESD 112 to deliver. Our team offers a full suite of services, ranging from thoughtful planning and strategy, to educational mailers, to digital information-sharing and strategic social media. We are a one-stop-shop for school election communications and PR needs, helping our clients to understand complex PDC guidelines and build movements around important education issues.
Crisis Communications
We manage communications during and after a crisis of any magnitude, including media relations, family communications, reputation management, and strategy development.
Public Outreach
We can help you identify the best way to get the word out about your latest initiative and help you keep it going over the long term. And as a full-service communications team, we can also ensure that your materials are consistent and identifiable across multiple digital and print platforms for the duration of your campaign.
Staffing & Coverage
Whether you need a dedicated communications specialist embedded directly alongside your leadership team or short-term coverage during a leave, we’ve got you covered. Our experienced professionals step in seamlessly to keep your district’s messaging, crisis response, and daily communications running without missing a beat.
Training
Communication is everyone’s job. We provide customized training for staff to ensure they have the understanding and skills to communicate effectively with stakeholders.
Communications Audits
Our collaborative review of your communications practices includes listening to your internal and external stakeholders to guide improvement in strategies, community engagement, development of materials, website, social media and more.
Media Relations
We provide media interview training, media distribution list management, reporter/newsroom outreach, story pitching, news release writing, talking points and more.
Reputation Management
Your reputation is built on everyday transparency and tested during times of challenge. We help school districts actively foster goodwill, handle delicate public issues with care, and deliver thoughtful, transparent communications that preserve public trust and strengthen community relationships.
Strategy & Planning
We facilitate planning with leaders to build a solid communications plan that includes identification of goals, audiences, materials, timelines and key messages.
Copywriting and Editing
Creativity guides our newsletters, news releases, superintendent messages, web copy, speeches, talking points and more.
Presentation Strategy
Whether you’re presenting a new strategic plan, navigating a sensitive community issue, or leading a staff kickoff, we help you shape your message for maximum impact. We organize your ideas into a logical, persuasive storyline that keeps stakeholders aligned and informed.
Social Media
Love it or hate it, social media is here to stay and is a great way to engage with a large portion of your community. We offer a wide variety of services to help you navigate the social media landscape, including custom videos and graphics, management and post scheduling, and training for your staff.
Templates
We provide pre-written, adaptable notification templates for severe weather, safety incidents, facility closures, and lockdowns—helping leadership communicate quickly, clearly, and calmly across all channels when time is of the essence.
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Award Winning Creative & Design
High-impact design, video production, and visual storytelling that get noticed.
Bond & Levy Outreach
When school districts have a levy, capital levy, or bond measure coming up, they trust ESD 112 to deliver. Our team offers a full suite of services, ranging from thoughtful planning and strategy, to educational mailers, to digital information-sharing and strategic social media. We are a one-stop-shop for school election communications and PR needs, helping our clients to understand complex PDC guidelines and build movements around important education issues.
Infographics
Leave it to us to translate complex information into engaging, accessible visual content. We can turn your strategies and data into clear stories the public will actually read and understand.
Other Publications
From custom wall calendars and parent handbooks to specialized toolkits and guides, we bring your unique print projects to life. We handle the heavy lifting to ensure every publication is well-organized, accessible, and beautifully branded.
Video Services
Whether it’s a detailed bond video, short social media video, or virtual event, we offer quality, professional and education-focused video production and editing services tailored especially for those on a budget.
Brand Identity
When developing a new brand identity or refreshing an old one, it’s important to engage an organization’s stakeholders, so the brand truly reflects who the organization is. Our branding work usually starts with a SWOT analysis and/or brand discovery process before moving on to logo design or tagline writing.
Marketing Materials
Promote your initiatives with purpose and style. Whether launching a new educational program, promoting an event, or building community support, we design print and digital marketing materials that grab attention and drive community action.
Photography
High-quality visual storytelling, captured right in your district. Whether you need coverage for a special event or a library of custom photos for upcoming campaigns, our team comes to you to capture dynamic, real-moment photography tailored to your needs.
Website Design
A robust web presence is one of the most important tools in your communications toolbox. We offer website consultation services to help you determine the best way to improve your website. Need a new website? We can build you one. Need help keeping your website up-to-date? We can help you maintain your site and ensure that you are never offline.
Graphic Design
Whatever your message, it has to look good to be noticed. Our graphic design services ensure that our partners are putting their best foot forward in all their communication efforts–whether it’s the required annual report to the community, signage and environmental graphics for a school, or a fun engagement campaign on social media.
Newsletters & Reports
Keep your community informed, inspired, and engaged. We turn district updates, reports to the community and annual reports into beautifully designed print and digital publications your audience will look forward to reading.
Specialty Graphics
Transform your physical and digital spaces with eye-catching, custom-designed graphics. From environmental signage and campus displays to interactive toolkits and specialty promotional items, we can bring your organization’s identity and physical spaces to life.
Collaborative Wisdom, Collective Strength
Uniting school communicators and leaders across Washington to share expertise, pool resources, and tackle hot-button education challenges together.
ESD 112 COMMUNICATIONS CONSORTIUM
School districts from Southwest Washington and across the state choose to participate in our Consortium for communications coordination, so they don’t have to go it alone when it comes to big issues like school funding, labor disputes, cell phone bans, Title IX, social media best practices, and other emerging hot topics. Areas of focus are discussed and materials produced through collaborative communication and messaging development. Each year we produce a dozen or more communications talking points, templates, and other shared materials for our Consortium members to utilize and customize. We stay on top of the hot-button issues and alert our district partners, so they can concentrate on educating students.
Member School Districts
what our clients are saying
“The COVID-19 pandemic has been extremely difficult on families, students and for school district personnel. Being able to share information, challenges and successes has created a community of communication professionals that is closer and more helpful to each other than ever. Thank you ESD 112 for all you do.”
“I just wanted to say a quick thank you for organizing the calls, supplying the agendas, providing resources and the wrap ups. Especially, as a relatively new person to the education communications world, these resources and talks have been really helpful. Once again, thanks for all that you are doing. I appreciate it.”
“After publishing our annual report, I was excited and blown away at all Communications helped us accomplish. Our work simply could not be done without your incredible talent, guidance and contributions. You continuously make things better and take our ideas to the next level.”
“As a communicator in a smaller district in the region, sharing the work of creating great messages, translating documents, and anticipating questions we needed to be able to answer during the COVID-19 pandemic was a huge support. The shared resources were much better than we could have created working by ourselves, and have garnered praise from our school board, district leadership, and district families.”