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Keeping parents and guardians up to date on the latest information is often a huge challenge for school administrators. A parent communication app by SchoolInfo can eliminate this challenge and make sure that your community always receives accurate and timely information. Don't believe us? Watch Denham Springs Junior High's video about what life was like before and after implementing their school app. In it, they discuss how an app has changed the way their administrators, teachers, and coaches communicate with parents and students.
Challenges Without an App
Prior to having an app, whenever administrators or teachers needed to reach a parent or guardian, they would have to dig through files to find their contact information and try to connect with them over the phone. As you may already know, this often presented problems if the parents’ phone numbers had changed, there was a language barrier, or parents were too busy to pick up the phone. While school administrators and staff had a difficult time reaching parents individually, they also were struggling to effectively keep everyone informed about general information like upcoming events or school news. They realized that just putting everything out on social media wasn’t reaching enough people.
On the other hand, students were often asked to relay information they were told in school to their parents. And as you may have guessed, this information doesn't always make it to their parents or guardians. When important information was given out over the intercom in the morning, students would often forget it by the time they got home.
Everyone noticed that there wasn’t enough communication happening about upcoming things like spirit days and certain deadlines between the school and home and changes need to be made to their communication strategy.
Communicating With an App
All of the above challenges Denham Springs was experiencing were resolved once they introduced their school communication app. Parents are now able to access all of the school's information on their own time from the palm of their hands. Parents no longer have to rely on their middle schoolers to get information home to them accurately and instead can hear it straight from the source.
Students can easily look up what events are coming up and be prepared and ready to participate in spirit days and field trips.
Administrators are finally able to reach higher numbers of parents by being able to get information to those who aren’t on Facebook. The Translation feature within the school app allows administrators to communicate with non-English-speaking parents both effectively and accurately. Administrators are now confident that everyone in their community can easily access all of their important communication from one place.
Watch this great video Denham Springs Junior High put together explaining how their school app made their communication more effective. Discover why administrators, teachers & coaches, students, and parents & guardians all love the simplicity of communicating through their branded mobile app!
A branded mobile app should be an essential part of your digital communication plan. With SchoolInfo, you can communicate through all channels simply, safely, and effectively. Get all your digital communication tools, including a branded mobile app, mass notifications that include voice, email, and SMS (text) messaging, social media management, and your school or district website and CMS, connected under one integrated platform to make management easier than ever before. Discover how we can streamline communication for you.
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This blog post was originally published on 11/4/2021.