# Using WordPress for your School District Website

- Link: https://teachercast.net/captivate-podcast/ept-ep5-wordpress-school-websites/
- Published: 2018-01-07T02:06:00-05:00
- Author: Jeff Bradbury

Educational Podcasting Today is a weekly podcast that celebrates podcasters and 
podcasting. Its mission is to help educators learn how to create podcasts and amazing
WordPress websites for their podcasts. For more information, please visit [http://www.EducationalPodcasting.today](http://www.EducationalPodcasting.today).

**In today’s show, we ask the question “How can our school districts use WordPress
as our main website platform?”**

 * Learn how to combine WordPress and Google Apps for Education to create a seamless
   digital hub for your school community.
 * Learn how school districts both large and small are utilizing WordPress as a 
   way of saving money and effectively managing both information and personnel.
 * Learn how you can potentially save hundreds of thousands of dollars from your
   budget by applying for FREE web hosting with major players in the web hosting
   world.

## **Show Topics**

 * Why make the move to WordPress?
 * Can WordPress and Google coexist?
 * What do you need to look for in a web designer?
 * How does a school district migrate all of its current data into a WordPress environment?
 * Empowering Teachers and Support Staff through the use of WordPress and Google
   Tools** **

## **Links of Interest**

 * [http://k12presser.com](http://k12presser.com)
 * [http://cameronbarrett.com](http://cameronbarrett.com)
 * [http://linkedin.com/in/camworld](http://linkedin.com/in/camworld)
 * [http://twitter.com/camworld](http://twitter.com/camworld)
 * [http://about.me/cam/](http://about.me/cam/)

## **About Our Guest**

Cameron Barrett has been working in the web design and development industry for 
20 years. He co-founded a dial-up ISP in Northern Michigan in 1995, taught “new 
media design” classes in 1996, pioneered the blog format in the late 1990s, and 
has since gone on to build large online community sites for General Wesley Clark(
2004 presidential campaign), John Kerry, the U.S. Army (at West Point), The World
Economic Forum and dozens of other companies, NGOs, and non-profits both large and
small.

He is responsible for the 70+ WordPress multisite that powers the district and school
websites of Newark Public Schools, the largest district in NJ. Using WordPress, 
he cut the district’s website operating budget in half after the first year and 
is on target to cut in half again for year two.

Cameron is now spinning up a “WordPress for Schools” services-based company called
K12Presser that promises to bring this costs-savings model to all 14,000+ public
school districts in the country. He encourages you to contact him to find out how
he can help your district migrate off the expensive, proprietary, vendor-controlled,
not-very-good SaaS solutions currently powering most district and school websites.