SchoolStatus is a district-wide communication tool that integrates key student data to increase communication among educators, district administrators and student families. SchoolStatus aggregates individual student data, such as state assessments, attendance and grades in an easy-to-visualize format and offers the option to communicate with students’ families via call, text or email. Teachers and administrators can securely communicate via call, text or email through SchoolStatus while their personal contact information remains private.
SchoolStatus provides mass messaging, parent communication, data analytics and compliance features:
Mass Messaging: Notify, SchoolStatus’ district-wide mass messaging feature, helps administrators get important messages out to stakeholders as soon as possible. A failsafe automatically converts text messages to voice when undeliverable, ensuring families receive information regardless of their access to technology.
Parent Communication: Teachers can call and send text messages to parents from their computer or phone. Parents can easily reply without the need for a separate app or portal.
Data Analytics: Key student data insights are provide, helping administrators and teachers make better informed decisions to drive student growth and achievement, and improve district performance.
Compliance: Accessible communications, reports and metrics help districts maintain compliance and accountability.
Formats/platforms used:
The SchoolStatus platform enables two-way communication between school and home. Teachers and administrators can securely communicate directly with parents and guardians via call, text or email from their computer or through a mobile app on their phone.
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Problem solved:
SchoolStatus enables district communication initiatives by supporting the distribution of mass messages, such as inclement weather, security and special announcements.
Parent Engagement - SchoolStatus pairs student data insights with school-home communication tools to enable meaningful conversations among administrators, teachers and families. Parent engagement in education has been shown to have positive effects on students’ academic, social and emotional success.
Equal Access to School Communications - With SchoolStatus, educators and administrators can make sure that every family has equal access to important district communications. If a message is undeliverable, it automatically converts to voice, ensuring parents and guardians receive communications regardless of their access to technology. SchoolStatus’ messages can also be translated in 100+ languages, meeting the needs of ELL parents.
Data Integration and Analytics – SchoolStatus provides insightful data that improves school district performance. Automatic data integration with SIS, LMS and other systems eliminates the need for multiple tools by pulling student data into a single dashboard. Data such as attendance, benchmarks, assessments, and discipline support data-informed decisions.
Meeting Compliance - Federal Program Directors can use confidential achievement data to assure compliance with Federal grant programs and monitor special populations which informs district plans and pivots in order to improve student outcomes.
Grade/age ranges:
SchoolStatus is available for K-12 schools and can be used by superintendents, principals, educators, curriculum & instruction directors, and federal program directors.
SchoolStatus enables district communication initiatives by supporting the distribution of mass messages, such as inclement weather, security and special announcements.
Pricing model:
SchoolStatus is an annual subscription and the amount is based on the number of campuses in the school district.
What makes SchoolStatus unique?
SchoolStatus is the only data analytics platform enabling two-way communication between school and home. SchoolStatus pairs student data insights with school-home communication tools to enable meaningful conversations in order to improve student outcomes. Teachers and administrators have access to individual students’ academic performance, attendance, discipline and communication history – which informs and supports their communications with families.
Characteristics
SchoolStatus seamlessly integrates with SIS, LMS and other systems in order to aggregate student data in one, accessible dashboard. Simple diagrams combine all data to offer a holistic view of each student. Data is updated automatically and secured with bank-grade encryption privacy.
SchoolStatus is easy-to-use, requiring only five clicks to send a message to every parent in a school district. No opt-in is necessary, which means that messages are delivered to parents without the need for a separate app. Messages can be scheduled in advance so that families receive them at an optimal time.
Here’s what users are saying:
“We want as many ways to reach parents as possible. Our teachers LOVE SchoolStatus, using it to document contact and support. The ability to reach ALL parents on a campus or the whole district is important as our ‘normal’ changes.”
– Dr. Charla Rudd, Assistant Superintendent at La Vega ISD
“Five clicks...that is what it takes to communicate with every parent in our district using SchoolStatus's new mass communication tool. SchoolStatus has made it virtually effortless to reach all parents in our district utilizing a single platform. Teachers in our district have used SchoolStatus as the main form of communication with parents, and the administrative team has used it to send out both school-specific and district-wide announcements. The ability to be able to send and document communications with parents has never been easier.”
–Jill Melton, Technology Coordinator at Poplarville Public Schools
