September 2024

🎓 Attendance Awareness Month Kit

Our friends at SchoolStatus Attend have crafted a special social media kit to support schools and districts in keeping students engaged and present. Check out this free resource and get everything you need to make the most of Attendance Awareness Month!

🏫 Use SchoolStatus Connect to Reach Families and Promote Attendance

September is the perfect time to boost student attendance with SchoolStatus Connect. Here are some effective strategies to engage with families and encourage consistent attendance:

1. 🥳 Celebrate Success: Send positive messages to families, highlighting how their child’s regular attendance contributes to their growth and makes them a valued member of the classroom community.
2. 🤝 Reach Out Personally: Connect with families of students who have low attendance to express how much their child is missed and the impact their presence has on the class.
3. 📣 Keep Families Informed: Use weekly updates or Smore newsletters to showcase the exciting activities and important lessons happening in class, emphasizing why their child's participation is crucial.

📈 We've Updated Your View Stats

You can now see who has and has not received or opened your Announcements and Newsletters in real time.

🧐 ICYMI: Here’s More Updates

• Students can now view Connect Announcements when logged in to their student app.

• Students will be able to receive text notifications as an alternative to email or push notifications.

• Don’t forget! Smore newsletters are now available in your Connect account!
  
• Unified Feed allows you to have a ‘unified view’ where announcements, events, etc. are all in one place!

🏆 Want to become a certified SchoolStatus user?

Did you know that you could become a certified SchoolStatus user? Take our SchoolStatus Connect courses in our Learning Lab to not only learn more about your account but earn a SchoolStatus user certification!

📚Learn more about SchoolStatus Connect!

Did you know that SchoolStatus Connect has a dedicated Help Center? Check out our Help Center to not only access the Learning Lab, but access how-to articles on all of our tools and features.

At SchoolStatus, your feedback is key to helping us continuously improve our products and services. That’s why we’re excited to invite you to participate in a series of feedback sessions on several topics that will help us refine our offerings and make them even more useful for you. Your voice matters to us, and these sessions are designed to ensure our future updates are aligned with what you need most. If any of these opportunities sound interesting, we encourage you to sign up!

✅ Student Success
We’re looking to engage with educators in various roles to learn more about how you define and measure student success. Share your approach and help us understand how SchoolStatus can better support student outcomes. Get a sneak peek into a few new ideas we are considering, and let us know what you think. Sign up here!

💻 Website Survey
If you’re interested in improving the way school and district websites serve educators and families, we invite you to participate in a survey to help us understand your needs and preferences. Take the survey here!

👩🏻‍🏫 Teachers Using Forms
Are you a teacher who uses digital forms in the classroom? We want to hear about your experience and show you potential designs to make sharing forms with students and families even easier. Sign up here!

Check out SchoolStatus Director of Education and Engagement Kara Stern's insightful article in eSchoolNews, where she highlights how integrating attendance into the curriculum can boost student engagement, improve attendance rates, and promote a more empathetic approach to absenteeism.

🤩 Want to be featured in an upcoming newsletter or webinar?

Do you, your school, or district love SchoolStatus or have a success story to share? Fill out the form below and you might be featured in an upcoming newsletter, webinar or case study!

🥰 Leading with Positivity: The Power of Positive School-Family Communication

For many families, school communications often focus on problems or concerns. Read this article to see how positive school-family communication not only brightens parents' days but also boosts student success.

🌙 How to Host an Effective Family Information Night

Back-to-school season brings a flurry of new learning opportunities—not just for students, but for families as well. To ease the transition and introduce them to new technologies and platforms, consider hosting a Family Information Night. Check out our blog post to learn how to organize an effective Family Information Night.

👓 5 Ways to Get Families Engaged in the Classroom

Families thrive on positive news about their children’s schooling, and maintaining consistent, encouraging communication is crucial for fostering engagement. In our latest blog post, we dive into five effective strategies for keeping families engaged at the classroom level.

• SchoolStatus Attend - Automated Attendance Intervention Letters

• SchoolStatus Boost - Educator Observation & Coaching
  
• SchoolStatus Connect - School-Home Communications + Smore Newsletters
• SchoolStatus High Impact Data - Centralized Student Data Dashboards