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TalkingPoints Launches School-Wide Platform for Parental Engagement, Collaborative Case Studies and Shared Student Analytics

8/16/2016

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Proven to increase parental engagement up to 30%, TalkingPoints for Schools empowers teachers and parents to communicate regardless of language barriers
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SAN FRANCISCO - (August 16, 2016) - Parental engagement is twice as likely to influence a student’s long term success than a family’s socioeconomic status. Yet this has been an insurmountable challenge for the thousands of teachers who interact with parents who do not speak English or do not have ready access to technology. ​

Today TalkingPoints, an education technology non-profit with mission to meaningfully connect parents and teachers, launches a brand new product - TalkingPoints for Schools, building on its baseline product, a two-way multilingual texting platform for teachers and parents. TalkingPoints for Schools equips educators and administrators with a platform for collaborative communication and analytics around parental engagement and student progress to increase student potential for long-term success -- similar to a CRM tool. Schools interested in TalkingPoints integration can sign up here.

TalkingPoints for Schools enables teachers and administrators to create holistic parental engagement programs across one centralized school account. Within the school account teachers and administrators can communicate with the same parents, build case studies around specific students, and collaboratively measure and report on parental engagement analytics. The platform sets each school up for success with straightforward tools for onboarding, customized strategic guidance, and best practices around parent-teacher communication.

“As a Korean immigrant attending high school in the UK, I personally witnessed how my peer’s education and career trajectories suffered as a result of the language barrier between our English-speaking teachers and their Korean-speaking parents,” says Heejae Lim, Founder of TalkingPoints. “Our goal with is to connect and empower all teachers, parents and students to succeed at each of their jobs by transforming the way they communicate.”

As an impact-driven nonprofit, TalkingPoints’ goal is to bridge the communication gap between educators and all parents, including the families of English-language learners. TalkingPoints transcends communication barriers at a critical time. By 2030, 40% of students in the U.S. will not speak English as their first language at home. Through TalkingPoints for Schools, teachers and administrators can communicate with any parent thanks to the software’s text translation capabilities.

For more information on TalkingPoints or to sign your school up, visit: www.talkingpts.org or contact hello@talkingpts.org

About TalkingPoints:
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TalkingPoints is an education technology nonprofit with a mission to meaningfully connect all teachers, parents and students to increase engagement and student success. TalkingPoints’ multilingual texting platform gets across linguistic and technological barriers by allowing educators and administrators to communicate with families in the their native languages. In the past year TalkingPoints has connected over 300 schools with students’ families, and the platform supports 20 different languages. TalkingPoints is supported by Fast Forward, Google.org, Stanford University, AT&T, and Echoing Green. The organization was founded in 2015 by Heejae Lim and is based in San Francisco, CA. For more information, visit www.talkingpts.org  
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