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Category Parent Engagement

A School Management System is a transformative tool that significantly enhances parent engagement in the educational process. These systems bridge the communication gap between schools and families by providing parents with secure access to their child’s academic progress, attendance records, and upcoming assignments. Parents are able to keep track of their children’s performance in real-time, which allows them to intervene and provide support at home at the appropriate time. Parents and teachers are also able to communicate directly and instantly through features such as messaging platforms and parent-teacher communication portals. A seamless flow of information promotes a collaborative learning environment where parents can actively participate in their child’s education, understanding their strengths and areas for improvement. Moreover, school management systems include event calendars that enable parents to keep track of their children’s extracurricular activities. The school management system promotes transparency, accessibility, and open communication, empowering parents to participate actively in their child’s education. This reinforces a strong sense of community and support is crucial to student success and also increases parent engagement & involvement.

Three Reasons Why Parent Communication Portals Don’t Work

When it comes to communicating with parents and students, many schools address the challenge by putting even more information — forms, calendars, pdfs, instructions — on their websites. As more information becomes available, additional pages are added and more downloads… Continue Reading →

No One is Reading Your Newsletter! Five Ways Schools Can Stop Bombarding Parents and Start Communicating

With all the technology being used inside the classroom today, it is amazing how little technology is used outside the classroom to maximize (and automate) communications between parents and schools. Parents are still being buried with flyers, calendars, forms and… Continue Reading →

Smartphones and Parents: What Schools Need to Compete

According to a recent Nielsen study, a typical U.S. adult will spend over 34 hours per month on the internet using their smart phones. 64% of the U.S. adult population is using smartphones, and the number is climbing. Of course,… Continue Reading →

Do your parents speak ” BRB – LOL – TTYL – IMHO”?

Communicating with the Twitter Generation of Parents We are living in times where the average length of written communication is getting progressively shorter… (LOL, TTYL, OMG….! ) while the average length and format of school communications has remained relatively unchanged… Continue Reading →

Parents are ahead and schools are behind. Change is painful.

But if schools continue doing what they have been doing, they will keep getting what they have been getting…the disengaged parent! Once a child is enrolled in a school, parents rarely access school websites to retrieve information; they prefer to… Continue Reading →

Schools are taking parental engagement more seriously

Have you heard the news? The Los Angeles Unified School District has just hired its first Social Media Director, who will be responsible for updating the district’s Facebook and Twitter feeds, uploading YouTube videos, helping some schools create websites, and… Continue Reading →

Here’s why parents aren’t engaging with your school

Whether you’ve found yourself desperately searching for fundraiser volunteers or are simply wondering why parents don’t seem be very involved in their children’s academic lives, you’ve probably noticed that parents at your school aren’t as engaged as you would like… Continue Reading →

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