Parent and Family Involvement is Key to Student Success
Published by Kristi Gottwalt on
Jun 4, 2021 12:00:00 AM
Recently, Public School Review published a great blog post discussing why parent involvement is the key to student success. The post highlighted the role of parental involvement in education.
Key topics mentioned included:
- Academic achievement increases when parents are involved in their children's education.
- Parental involvement leads to better classroom behavior.
- Parents should stay involved in their children's education from preschool through high school.
- Training helps parents of disadvantaged children get involved.
- Reading together at home greatly improves reading skills.
- Parental involvement lifts teacher morale.
- Parental involvement benefits children and parents.
What is the greatest barrier to parental involvement? Time constraints. Families are busy. Between work, the commute, keeping up with household chores, childcare, and staying in touch with friends and family...it's a lot. Then throw in the added pressures of finances, managing relationships, and a pandemic. It's exhausting to think of everything families deal with on a daily basis.
The SchoolInfo digital communication suite is a digital platform aimed at keeping families engaged. Our products give parents and guardians the information they need when they need it. Our interoperable platform makes it easy for administrators to provide just-in-time and focused messages, all in one place to save time and keep a unifying message.
How? Through features like:
Categorized News Feeds: Announce the latest news on your website and app. With SchoolInfo, you can categorize the news so it appears to the whole community or targeted groups. If something is only relevant to your middle school or those in after-school care, you are able to publicize the news to just that group.
Push Notifications: With push notifications, you can send a pop-up alert on cell phones to your entire community, or just to those groups that it is relevant to.
Share!: With Share! your entire community becomes social media content curators. Users are able to submit stories for your approval. Administrators can edit, publish, or reject content to make sure the latest news is on your social media channels, without attending every event.
Video: Sometimes people just don't want to read. Including video in your communication is a great way to increase engagement! Use our Video platform for virtual learning, school announcements, student orientation, and so much more!
Tip Line: Students, parents, or teachers can safely and securely submit tips to administrators to communicate instances of bullying, report a good deed, or anything else. All while staying anonymous.
Conversations: By far, one of our most popular products. With Conversations, teachers can instantly chat directly with individual students and parents or easily create groups to share class documents, materials, and assignments, answer questions, inspire engagement, and more!
In the days of information overload, having a streamlined source of news makes sure your important messages are being received. Cut through the noise and engage your families with our integrated digital communication suite.
Book a demo today to learn more about how your school or district can enhance parent and guardian communication for the start of the 2021-2022 school year. Act quickly, our deadline to launch your SchoolInfo products for the 2021-2022 school year is June 25*!
P.S. These same tools can help keep your staff engaged, as well!
* Review times for inclusion in the Apple App Store and Google Play vary, are beyond our control and may require opening a developer account for your school or district. We guarantee submission to the process in time to reasonably expect your app to publish prior to your school or district's first day of classes based on normal review times if we receive a completed enrollment and P.O. or payment along with access to your school or district's developer account by July 9, 2021.
If we receive your enrollment form, P.O./payment or access to your school or district's developer account after the deadline, we'll make every effort to get your app published before the new school year begins, but won't be able to guarantee it.