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Over the past two decades, the way that schools connect with our communities has become much more multifaceted. I’m in my 12th year as a technology director in Fort Sam Houston ISD, and prior to that, I was the principal of a secondary campus.

When I started as principal, we communicated with stakeholders via email and the local newspaper -- and that was about it. Then we got a website. 

Then all of the sudden schools were on Facebook, then Twitter, then Instagram. Then we had instant text message communication through various tools. These days, we have to send out messages in a variety of ways to make sure they reach everybody.

Our district is different from others because we’re located on a military installation. The boundaries of our district are the same as the boundaries of Fort Sam Houston, which is the medical training facility for all of the Army. 

One wonderful aspect of our situation is that for students to attend our school their parents have to be in the military, so we have 100% employment. All of our parents and students have access to the internet. They all have an email address.

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