Mission & Vision
We believe that all families can and should be engaged with their children’s schools and education. We believe this only happens when the concept of equity becomes a guiding principle in family engagement and the barriers that different families face are each addressed and broken down.
Problem/Solution
The Need
Across America, it is becoming increasingly difficult for families to engage with schools and be part of connected school communities. From mobility and changing contact information to language, literacy, and logistics, families are constantly facing obstacles that prevent them from being active participants in their children’s learning. Now, more than ever, districts and schools recognize that they need solutions that allow them to achieve their goals of fostering dialogue, building relationships, and creating connected, inclusive communities.
Our Solution
SchoolCNXT is the culmination of years of careful, thoughtful collaboration, passionate advocacy for more inclusive communities, and the ongoing development of a solution to empower families to drive growth and success for their children. While partnering with districts and schools across the country, we have learned about the primary barriers to engagement for families (access, language, and literacy) and have created a flexible mobile/web-based family engagement solution that overcomes each of those barriers. SchoolCNXT enables districts, schools, and families to build powerful relationships with one another and equitably build inclusive communities.
Product Overview
SchoolCNXT is made for family engagement and communications equity.
Removal of Barriers + Easy-to-Use Platform + Data and Security Oversight = Increased Engagement with SchoolCNXT.
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Targeted, one-way communication to the entire district or school or any subset of families.
Targeted, one-way communication to the entire district or school or any subset of families.
Invite the community to events and track RSVPs and attendance.
Invite the community to events and track RSVPs and attendance.
Participate in two-way communication in an equitable, secure way.
Communications
School-Home-Community Communications
Send important district and school notices with a few clicks from your desktop or phone. Delivery reports show you exactly which student families did or did not receive the communication.
Send media-rich messages to families. Save time with built-in distribution lists through SIS integration and ensure district-wide brand consistency.
One-to-one and group messaging
Conveniently message a parent privately, start a group conversation, or send a post to every parent/guardian of students in a class/grade/period, etc., with two-way translation.
Two-way translation and dictation
Translate to 100+ languages to improve reach and better communicate with ALL families.
Engaging hard-to-reach families
Families simply select their language. Multi-pronged invitation approach leads to high activation rates. Families stay connected even if their contact information changes.
Equitable communication for thriving school-home-community partnerships
Provide access to community resources. Connect families, schools and communities by providing an easy way to equitably share news and events, send reminders, and participate in two-way messaging.
Event Management
Measure and grow participation rates for any type of appointment with SchoolCNXT event management system to track invitations, RSVPs, and event check-ins.
Ease of Use
Make it easy for parents/guardians to connect with teachers, staff, or even each other (if enabled). Search by name, email, phone, or student.
Drive engagment in education at home-school-community.
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Data Security and Oversight
Oversight
Oversee and manage all communication from the district level to the classroom, complete with role-based permissions and audit-logging.
Reports and analytics
Easily measure and improve engagement with visual reports on parent reach, participation, and engagement.
Easy onboarding and proactive support
SchoolCNXT smooth onboarding process and ongoing support are consistently praised by customers as among the best in edtech.
Data accuracy
Built-in contact management features save time and make it easy to keep family contact data current, without compromising the security of your SIS.
Data privacy
SchoolCNXT is fully compliant with FERPA and SOPPA, and we are proud signatories of the Student Privacy Pledge.
Data Security
We safeguard the confidentiality of all information we collect by adhering to industry-leading security protocols for data transfer and storage.
SIS integration
Intelligent integrations with your SIS and single sign on capabilities streamlines support and ensures secure, up-to-date data across all systems.
Drive engagment in education at home-school-community.
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What they’re saying…
SchoolCNXT has been a great partner and key stakeholder in our district's success with communicating to all of our parents regardless of their language or literacy level. We believe that the better we communicate, the stronger our relationships are with families which translates into greater student achievement.
Matt Smith
Associate Superintendent,
Des Moines Public Schools
Des Moines Public Schools
School CNXT, our parent engagement platform, has been a significant asset to my district's family engagement efforts as well as my team's ability to provide actionable insights. Our community can now receive targeted information in multiple languages about the important events, programs, and opportunities happening at their child's school, and they can also quickly and easily provide feedback to us through School CNXT. I highly recommend School CNXT for any district looking to engage all families in meaningful and equitable ways.
Crystal Hawkins
Family Engagement Specialist,
Jefferson County Public Schools
Jefferson County Public Schools
SchoolCNXT provides user-friendly tools for teachers to interact with families and the SchoolCNXT platform provides a secure hub where teachers can share resources, communicate one on one with parents, and receive comments in real time. We've been able to use this platform to increase parent engagement and participation.
Luis Torres
Principal, P.S. 55 Benjamin Franklin,
New York City Community Schools
New York City Community Schools
SchoolCNXT provides the perfect platform for communicating with parents. My team loves using it!
Dr. Patrina Singleton
Principal,
Joseph Brennemann Elementary School
Chicago Public Schools
Joseph Brennemann Elementary School
Chicago Public Schools
News
May 17, 2022
From Contentious to Collaborative: Having difficult communication with families
Ms. Perry, a first-year teacher to second graders, is anxious about calling the home of one of her students, Ismael. Ismael is consistently falling asleep in class, and Ms. Perry suspects it may have something to do with Ismael’s at-home routines. She doesn’t want to come across as blameful, but she’s concerned about Ismael’s school success if the pattern continues.
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