Crisis communication letters
Cooperating School Districts provides crisis communications assistance to CSD member school districts. Assistance is provided in the following areas:
• on-call communications counseling
• media request coordination
• on-site communications assistance
• media interview preparation
• crisis letter writing and more
Sample Situation and Issue Letters
The links to the letters listed below were written to address a situation/issue in a school district or school.
All letters are Microsoft Word documents. Once downloaded, you can open the file in Microsoft Word or any other program that recognizes a Word file. Personalize the letter as you deem necessary.
4. Board-Curriculum Issues-Boundaries
5. Board-Curriculum Issues-Human Growth & Development
8 . Burglary
9. Bus Accident
10. Cancer-Environmental Study of Building
11. Cancer-Student
12. Censorship
13. Community Outreach-Disaster
14. Death of Student
15. Death of Teacher
16. Drugs in School
18. Food Poisoning
22. MAP-AYP Progress
24. Meningitis-Viral
25. New Administrative Staff (Principal)
26. Racial Incident
28. Repair-Construction-Water Line
29. Resignation-Leave (Disciplinary)
30. Resignation-Leave (Medical, Personal)
31. Sexual Misconduct-Former Employee
33. Shigellosis
34. Teacher Negotiations-Work to Contract
36. Violence, Rumors, Threats-Fight
37. Violence, Rumors, Threats-Rumors of Violence
38. War, Rumors, Threats of War-Emergency Preparedness
39. Weapons (Actual, Alleged)-Actual
40. Weather Concerns-Extreme Cold
41. Weather Concerns-Tornado Alert
42. West Nile Virus
In addition to the one letter per topic listed above, CSD has other letters available in each category. If you need more information or other sample letters, contact David Kuschel, Director of Communications, at 314.692.1233 or dkuschel@csd.org A special thank you to all school districts and school PR professionals who assisted in sharing their sample letters over the years.
