Social Media Strategy: Brian Dixon, executive director of the Mentorship Academy’s charter schools in downtown Baton, is this week’s featured educator on the recently relaunched Facebook in Education page, found here. The Mentorship Academies use Facebook to communicate with parents about report card nights, admissions deadlines and parent/teacher conferences. Dixon says Facebook has helped Mentorship Academy “grow a collaborative school community.” His book, Social Media for School Leaders, is slated to be released this fall.
Nonresidential construction likely to remain soft: Associated Builders and Contractors says its construction backlog indicator, which measures the amount of construction work under contract to be completed, slipped 5.4% in the first quarter of 2012. ABC Chief Economist Anirban Basu says the CBI declined for the second quarter in a row, and he predicts flat to declining nonresidential construction spending through the summer.
Call-ins still welcome: Suckers, a grill, market and smokehouse, is closing its dine-in facility on College Drive. Management blames low visibility and difficult access for the closure. Suckers will continue filling catering and delivery orders.
Today’s poll: What do you think about the tentative agreement between the Catholic Diocese of Baton Rouge and the East Baton Rouge Parish School System that would change the start of the day for Catholic schools from 8:30 a.m. to 7:45 a.m?
