Practical talk for school communicators.
School PR Podcast With Ryan Foran follows the working realities of school public relations, from graduation photo planning to bond communications and journalists trying to get PR jobs. Its register is casual and practitioner-heavy, with advice shaped around districts, board meetings, school events, and public education advocacy.
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School PR Podcast With Ryan Foran is a practitioner conversation about the communications work that surrounds public education. Its center is school PR: media relations, crisis communications, social media, community updates, recognitions, board meetings, and the steady effort to tell school stories with clarity. The show has a casual rhythm. It can start with banter, sponsors, and a quick personal check-in, then move straight into the practical pressures of the job. Recent episodes show that range clearly. One conversation focuses on why journalists may struggle to land PR jobs, with attention to interview presentation, district expectations, and the difference between reporting culture and serving as a public spokesperson. Another back-to-school episode moves through start-of-year energy, student and staff celebrations, bond communication, community surveys, vision work, and website accessibility. Graduation season gets treated as a communications assignment, not just a ceremony. The advice there is visual and specific: capture students before they walk out, look for candid moments, get the hat photo, and treat the day as a story worth preserving. The show also spends time around professional gatherings. NSPRA and CalSPRA episodes bring in conference previews, Seattle logistics, sessions, karaoke, booths, and the collegial side of school communications. Public education finance appears through a conversation with Kevin Gordon about budget and fiscal issues. A wellness episode is a clear detour, but it still fits the hosts' conversational style: informal, opinionated, and built around everyday choices. Across its episodes, the strongest through-line is advocacy for public education through visible, human, usable communication. The show is not trying to sound like a communications textbook. It sounds like working school PR people comparing notes before the next event, interview, survey, board meeting, or conference. That makes it especially useful for someone who wants the judgment behind the task, not just the task list. It is practical, local-feeling, and rooted in the rhythms of school districts.
Made for: Suits a listener who works near school communications, district leadership, public education storytelling, or school event coverage. It also fits someone new to school PR who wants candid field context without a formal training tone.
What sets it apart: The show separates itself by staying close to the actual calendar of school PR work: graduations, back-to-school planning, board recognition, bond updates, conferences, and media-facing roles. Its value is the working-detail layer behind those public moments.
School Public Relations Podcast Hosted by Ryan Foran
Graduation caps fly, and Ryan Foran and Matthew Jennings want you close enough to photograph the hugs.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A direct, practical case for looking ready before making the move from journalism into school PR.
Journalists looking toward school public relations get a plain-spoken reminder that the interview can start before the first question. Matthew Jennings and Ryan Ferran center the episode on dress and presence, asking reporters who already cover districts or attend board meetings…
A back-to-school episode on celebrating schools, listening well, and treating polling with care.
The return to school gives this episode a clear, practical frame: what school communication is supposed to do when the year starts moving again.
A practical graduation-season reminder to leave the sidelines and capture the candid moments families remember.
Graduation season lands here as a communications assignment with a camera in hand. The hosts move from awards and recognitions into the practical work of showing what the day feels like.
A practical health conversation turns organic produce, pests, and pesticide worries into a candid market-day discussion.
Health advice gets a practical, market-minded airing here, as the hosts use a produce list to sort through organic choices, pesticide worries, and the humbling reality of trying to grow food at home.
Southwest Michigan updates with odd-news spark.
School leadership, thought out loud.
Uxbridge High School, in its own season.
School PR Podcast With Ryan Foran episode 141 focuses on why journalists struggle to land school PR and government communications jobs.
Ryan Foran and Matthew Jennings focus on back-to-school communications, starting with first-day photo ideas like the Arcadia first-day hashtag and parent photo collection.
School PR Podcast episode 138 centers on graduation season, with Matthew Jennings and Ryan Foran trading ideas for ceremonies, grad runs, and ways to turn graduation photos into year-round content.
School PR Podcast episode 137 shifts from public relations to nutrition, with Ryan Foran using the Dirty Dozen and Clean Fifteen lists to explain which fruits and vegetables he buys organically.
Matthew Jennings and Ryan Faran preview NSPRA's Seattle conference with Curtis Campbell, who expects more than 1,500 school PR professionals to attend.
The episode opens with casual banter about a movie before transitioning into the show's focus on school public relations strategies.
The hosts discuss helping newcomers to school public relations and reflect on the start of 2024.
This episode discusses school budget and fiscal issues with guest Kevin Gordon, a political advocate for education.
Hosts discuss school public relations topics with a guest from Washington, including weather and an upcoming conference.