After speaking to other districts about their experiences utilizing school-home interaction platforms, and taking our own innovation directors suggestion to heart, we decided to carry out ParentSquare. We created a core group of people that would be using the brand-new interactions technology we adopted in order to assess how well it would work for their groups and particular structures.

With 3,300 students throughout 3 different schools, our district was using a variety of diverse applications for school-to-home interactions. They all managed different aspects of our teacher-parent interactions, but they werent cohesive.

We began trying to find a brand-new option in 2019 that would consolidate the several, disparate tools into one platform and after that rapidly kicked that effort into high equipment at the start of the pandemic in March 2020.

By April, we were trained on and using our brand-new platform for all our school-home communications requires. The timing was ideal. We entirely overlooked the suggestions that says, “do not alter how you interact in the midst of a crisis” and instead concentrated on organizing all of our communications activity into a single, safe and safe and secure location.

Equity and Integration Made Simple

From our new communications system, we wanted an application that was both visually enticing and easy to use. We didnt desire users to need to go through a lot of troublesome clicks or actions, and we required a platform that could manage translation for students whose very first language wasnt English.

Caroline Chapman, Director of Communications & & Advisement, Canandaigua City School DistrictCaroline Chapman is Director of Communications & & Advisement at Canandaigua City School District in Canandaigua, New York.

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