SchoolStatus Broadcasts Acquisition of ClassTag Strengthening its Suite of Ok-12 Knowledge, Workflow, and Communications
RIDGELAND, Miss. — SchoolStatus, a pacesetter in Ok-12 knowledge and communications, introduced right this moment the acquisition of ClassTag, a unified household communication and engagement platform for educators, colleges, and districts.
This strategic acquisition expands SchoolStatus’ present choices with a sturdy communications app that permits sharing of important student-level knowledge in streamlined and easy-to-use methods. ClassTag’s sensible messages attain all households based mostly on their most well-liked channel (SMS, e mail, app, net or paper) mechanically translated into 100+ languages. Seeing all related pupil info in a single place helps households keep knowledgeable and get entangled.
Based mostly in New York, ClassTag is a unified household engagement platform utilized by over 5 million households. The platform allows academics to effectively talk and coordinate with households and offers college and district leaders with insights on efficient methods to construct school-home connections that enhance pupil outcomes.
SchoolStatus will purchase ClassTag in its entirety, together with its operations and know-how. ClassTag primary free customers will proceed to have entry to the identical nice services they at the moment use. The know-how shall be seamlessly built-in to broaden and improve SchoolStatus’ present knowledge and school-home communications platform, promising an much more user-friendly family-teacher communications expertise. By means of a strong mixture of information and communications, SchoolStatus helps significant conversations and relationships between college and residential in regards to the matters that matter most to pupil success.
“Engaged households assist college students succeed,” stated Russ Davis, SchoolStatus Founder and CEO. “The SchoolStatus platform empowers educators to achieve households with the suitable message, via the suitable channel, on the proper time to have the best impression on pupil outcomes. ClassTag provides us the muse for a household and instructor expertise that centralizes probably the most related knowledge about college students for households in a manner that’s straightforward for academics to make use of. We’re pairing this know-how with our huge expertise in knowledge integration to energy crucial messages dwelling to households: How are college students performing? Are they displaying as much as college? Are they on monitor?”
The acquisition rounds out SchoolStatus’ suite of communication options, assembly the evolving wants of educators, colleges, districts and households to cowl the complete spectrum of school-home communication. SchoolStatus at the moment presents choices for two-way texting, cellphone calls, print letters, and e mail. Integrating ClassTag’s know-how will add a cellular app for households as a further possibility for SchoolStatus companions. Along with Smore‘s publication capabilities and Operoo‘s digital kinds and workflow automation, the acquisition of ClassTag will allow SchoolStatus to supply extra choices for varsity districts to achieve each household via their most well-liked channel.
“Reaching households has by no means been harder–between info overload on smartphones, challenges at dwelling, and a scarcity of visibility into what works,” stated Vlada Lotkina, Co-Founder and CEO of ClassTag. “ClassTag offers academics and households with a easy, built-in communications platform to remain linked on what’s occurring with college students. We’re excited to be teaming up with SchoolStatus to supply revolutionary options that may assist set college students up for achievement by supporting significant, data-informed school-home communication.”
About SchoolStatus
SchoolStatus connects households and educators to empower pupil success. Providing a set of main options that assist built-in communications, attendance administration, and instructor effectiveness, SchoolStatus makes use of the ability of information to deliver households, directors, and educators collectively across the details that matter most to constructive instructional outcomes. With greater than 200 million profitable family-teacher interactions, and thousands and thousands of customers throughout all product traces, SchoolStatus drives significant outcomes for districts throughout the U.S. For extra info, go to schoolstatus.com.
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