The Benefits of SchoolMessenger

Make The Connection
Educators use SchoolMessenger to connect with families through the phone, the web and e-mail messaging. Parent communication becomes integrated. Schools save resources and build relationships with families.

Keep Parents In The Loop
It's an established fact: involving parents is crucial to fostering student success. Often, however, involvement plans miss one vital component - a technology framework to foster consistent two-way communication between schools and homes. SchoolMessenger provides that framework.

Get Kids In The Seats
Absence notification produces an immediate and direct effect on attendance. And attendance is a leading precursor to student achievement. With SchoolMessenger, educators increase attendance, decrease tardiness, and lessen truancy . The result is more kids in the seats and higher scores.

A study conducted by the Minneapolis public school district found that students' scores on the state's 8th grade reading test rose in proportion to the frequency with which they attended school. (see right)

SOURCE: Minneapolis Public Schools, 1997-98 school year.

Enable Your Outreach Strategy
Involving parents of limited-English proficient students is challenging enough. With the notification mandates of No Child Left Behind, home-language communication is no longer just important, it's required. SchoolMessenger allows educators to reach parents in the preferred language, consistently and efficiently.

Bridge The Digital Divide
Provide information through multiple channels and reach the widest possible audience - including the large percentage of families without internet access. (see right)

SOURCE: NTIA (USDOC)

Save Time and Money
The cost of mailings - with postage, printing and envelope stuffing - quickly adds up. And the time spent manually calling students, or receiving and routing calls from parents, could be invested elsewhere. Between reduced costs and increased productivity, SchoolMessenger saves schools and districts thousands of dollars a year.

Foster Trust Before, And During A Crisis
Consistency is key. Parents become familiar with the district's open channels of communication. During a crisis, parents know that trusted information is just a click or a call away. And SchoolMessenger emergency-override features allow the district to get messages out quickly.

The majority of safety officials rate their schools as 'vulnerable'. A written survey of 658 officers, conducted at the school officers' annual convention in July 2002, found that 74% of all schools are unprepared. (see right)

SOURCE: CNN.com, Survey - Schools Unprepared For Terrorism, 10/07/02.

Reach Hard-to-Reach Parents
Long after a person might give up, SchoolMessenger continues to get the message home. With Intelligent Message Delivery, multiple number storage and flexible call-back settings, SchoolMessenger works hard to reach parents.