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A guide to optimizing K-12 community engagement Considerations for selecting online solutions to connect and engage your K-12 community

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While communication methods have expanded and changed dramatically in recent years, the primary reason for school-to-home communication has remained constant for decades. When parents and families are informed, they can be engaged. When parents and families are engaged, students achieve more. While the benefits of communication affect student outcomes, a good communication strategy also helps your school district in many ways.

• Build and promote your district’s brand. Sharing your story is important to define who your district is to your community.

• Safeguard against competition. When families are considering your school district, they need to understand quickly why your district is better than other options such as charter schools, private schools, virtual learning or homeschooling.

• Ensure transparency. Your community wants to understand what is happening in your district—frequently sharing information is the best way to make that happen.

• Improve community unity. When everyone understands what is happening at the district, they can unify to provide support—both through time and money.

With the change in communication methods, how do you know the best tools and solutions to truly engage your community? The goal of this document is to help your district find the right tools to meet the unique needs of your district.

“ AT THE END OF THE DAY, THE MOST OVERWHELMING KEY TO A CHILD’S SUCCESS IS THE POSITIVE INVOLVEMENT OF PARENTS. ”— Jane D. Hull, Former Governor of Arizona








Contents

Why a guide from Schoolwires? ........................................................................4

Roadblocks to success ..................................................................................... 5

The Schoolwires roadmap for optimizing communities ...................................6

Defining your brand ........................................................................................... 7

Extended reach .................................................................................................8

Service and support ..........................................................................................9

Proof of performance ..................................................................................... 10

Compliance ......................................................................................................11

Reliability and data security ............................................................................ 12

Vision ............................................................................................................... 13

Rating tool ....................................................................................................... 14

“ BARRINGTON 220 JUST FINISHED A COMPLETE WEBSITE REDESIGN WITH SCHOOLWIRES. WE KNEW WHERE WE WANTED TO GO WITH THE DESIGN AND SCHOOLWIRES CREATIVE TEAM WAS ABLE TO EXECUTE OUR PLAN PERFECTLY. WE ARE VERY PLEASED WITH THE UNIQUE, INNOVATIVE LOOK OF OUR NEW WEBSITE, AND WE’VE HAD A SIMILAR RESPONSE FROM OUR COMMUNITY. ”— Jeff Arnett, Communications Specialist, Barrington CUSD 220








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Why a guide from Schoolwires?We’ve been building and hosting K-12 school websites since 2000, and our content management system, mobile solutions, and services are designed specifically with K-12 needs in mind. Our solutions help everyone in your K-12 community— teachers, staff, parents, students, and the community at large—stay connected, share information, and keep up with what’s happening in your district. Whenever they want. Wherever they are.

Today, more than 11 million users rely on our online solutions to drive engagement in the classroom, locally, and across the globe. We’re proud to be a part of that. And we remain committed to helping K-12 communities extend their local reach and transcend the boundaries of their districts so that individuals everywhere can achieve their full potential.

WHY WE BELIEVE EVERY K-12 COMMUNITY SHOULD ACHIEVE THEIR OPTIMAL LEVEL OF ENGAGEMENT.

HOW Continuously evolving interoperable technology Consulting services Personalized training and support

WHAT

• Community management system• Mobile Communications App• Premium Video App• Partnership programs• Safe social engagement• Voice notification• Free upgrades• Website hosting• 99.9% Uptime Guarantee

• Creative services• Responsive design• Site launch consulting• Content migration• Custom development• MCA configuration services• Universal connector implementation

• Admin training• Staff training • Teacher training• Advanced user training• Premium & Premium+ support• Developer’s network








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Roadblocks to successConsider your district. What has prevented your communications plans from moving forward in the past?

A thorough analysis of known challenges prior to making your purchase helps you determine which barricades stand between execution and accomplishment of your goals. The chart below illustrates possible roadblocks to truly optimized community engagement.

District pain points:• Stakeholders don’t want to just read

information, they want to interact• Parents expect teacher web pages

to keep them informed of what’s going on in the classroom – can cause a fractured experience if all teachers don’t have web pages

• Because of more sharing of information, website traffic and security issues increase

District pain points:• Stakeholders want a one-stop hub to

connect with resources and people they need

• Students don’t want to just be grouped by grade level, but by extracurricular activities and shared interests

• Parents and members of the community want to exchange ideas, assets, and knowledge

• Stakeholders want to personalize their information collection

• District administrators want integration of systems to realize ROI

District pain points:• District administrators expect

continuous improvement in processes & programs

• Stakeholders expect a free flow exchange of information

• Teachers and students expect global connectivity

District pain points:• One webmaster

– can become content bottleneck• District brand not unified in schools• Content creation limited to a few

internal staff• Information not always timely or

up-to-date• Parents aren’t aware of all

involvement initiatives• Parents & community members

must register to access information• Community stakeholders don’t feel

like they have a say• Fractured experience from one

school to the next

District pain points:• Reactive to issues• Ad Hoc approach – teachers use

various 3rd party systems• Out-of-date info; content creation

often uncontrolled or unmonitored• No engagement programs• Limited or no brand• Parents & community members feel

like guests or visitors

create

1L

inform

2L

collaborate

3L

integrate

4L

optimize

5L








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The Schoolwires roadmap for optimizing communitiesHow can your district plan for success?

Consider our Roadmap for Optimizing Communities (ROC) model to help you identify where your district is on your engagement journey—and what you need to do to reach your goals. The ROC has helped countless districts move their communication plan forward.

optimize

5L

What districts have:• District-wide extensibility• Custom, integrated apps• Broad teacher and community

adoption• Robust community authored

content

Capabilities:• Community management system• Website design tools• Content management tools• Responsive web design• MultiMedia/Video• Social media• Forms & surveys• Mobile app• Teacher web pages• Rating, commenting• Community editing• App collections• Family notification suite• integration with SIS and other

3rd parties

collaborate

3L

What districts have:• Shared website & community

management• Two-way school-home

communication• Social and mobile networking• Enhanced student, parent,

partner, community interaction• Standardized district-wide

branding, PR, and engagement programs

Capabilities:• Community management system• Website design tools• Content management tools• Responsive web design• MultiMedia/social media• Forms & surveys• Mobile app• Teacher web pages

integrate

4L

What districts have:• Student, parent, and community

resources• Personalized workspaces,

calendars and information• Stakeholder adoption of systems

via training & professional development

• Engagement metrics and reporting• Interoperability and integration of

3rd party systems

Capabilities:• Community management system• Website design tools• Content management tools• Responsive web design• MultiMedia/social media• Forms & surveys• Mobile app• Teacher web pages• Rating, commenting• Community editing• App collections• Family notification suite• integration with SIS and other

3rd parties

inform

2L

What districts have:• Centralized website management • Website design tools• Distributed content editing &

publishing• Parent involvement initiatives• Brand development• Pushed out messages and

information

Capabilities:• Community management system• Website design tools• Content management tools

create

1L

What districts have:• Free website• Static web pages• Limited/no coordination• Limited/no uniformity

Services:• Creative services• Admin and staff training• Site launch consulting• Content migration

Services:• Advanced user training• Teacher training• Responsive web design• Mobile communication app services

Services:• Premium+ support

Services:• Custom development services








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Defining your brandCommunication tools play a critical role in promoting your schools and district brand. Nearly every K-12 school district leader would agree that their district and school websites are the first place the public turns to for information. Having an engaging, modern website is necessary to meet the expectations of your visitors. Make sure your school and district websites are designed to promote your brand and showcase your district’s success.

When you are exploring your website and content management options, your district’s brand and image depend on answers to these questions:

• When building a website, are you able to create your designs from the beginning to end or select from a pre-designed template, depending on your needs?

• Do you work directly with an experienced graphic designer to ensure your vision is implemented professionally?

• Are those designers trained in usability and project management to make sure you get the best user experience and end product possible?

• Can you work with an expert to walk through your site launch plans?

• Are there best practices that you can apply to your implementation—and if so, how will you learn about them?

• Do you receive resources to help you introduce new tools to your community? Tools like editable press releases, memos, emails, and other boilerplates can help build awareness—and adoption—of websites, apps and more.

“ IT’S A PROFESSIONAL SERVICE THAT IS EASY TO USE AND HAS GREAT CUSTOMER SERVICE. ”

— Sandy Ruthruff, Webmaster, North Mason School District








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Extended reachGone are the days when stagnate websites were all your district needed to stay connected. Now there are multiple channels that districts need to reach all of their audiences. In today’s digital world, the idea of create once, publish everywhere (COPE) is a mainstay of efficiently managing and delivering content. When selecting a vendor, ask the right questions to make sure you can reach everyone—or the select few you want to reach—from one place.

Responsive design• With the growth of mobile devices, can your district and school websites be viewed optimally on a variety of mobile

devices?

• Are there five different views providing a pleasant experience on the most popular devices?

Mobile app• Does the provider offer a mobile app integrated with the CMS?

• Will the app be branded for your district?

• Can you download the app from the iTunes or Google Play store?

• Are there fees for updates?

• Will you be able to send push notifications?

Channels• Is there a voice notification option to place telephone calls and/or leave voicemails to reach families, staff, and

community members?

• Can your district send text notifications to users using true SMS messaging?

• Can you publish directly to Facebook or Twitter easily using the solution?

YOUR MESSAGE

VOICE

MOBILE APP

TEXT

SOCIAL MEDIA

WEBSITE








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Service and supportEven after comprehensive training, the most competent webmasters, technology directors, and system users will have questions after your website has gone live. Training and ongoing support are needed to ensure the success and adoption of your website. The scope of the training and the dependability and speed of support is what should matter to you. Your job is stressful enough without waiting for days to get an answer to your questions.

Consider the following when evaluating providers:

• Can you choose from a range of training options that meet your level of need and budget–including off-site, onsite, and online?

• Are you getting an effective mix of self-help and service request options, available to you 24/7?

• Can you be assured your questions will get a 100% same-day response?

• Can you get a proven process to streamline every step of implementation, no matter how complex, so you can feel confident your website will launch when you need it to?

“ I HAVE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY MANY TIMES TO SHARE OUR DISTRICT’S EXPERIENCE WITH OTHER SCHOOL DISTRICTS REGARDING OUR TRANSITION TO SCHOOLWIRES. I’VE SHARED THE FLEXIBILITY AND CREATIVITY OF THE DESIGNERS WHO ASSISTED US TO TAKE MANY IDEAS TO BUILD A WEBSITE REFLECTIVE OF THE POSITIVE ATTRIBUTES OF OUR COMMUNITY. I’VE SHARED THAT SCHOOLWIRES’ SUPPORT TEAM ARE AMONG THE BEST WE HAVE WORKED WITH. THE INTERACTIVE TUTORIALS ARE INVALUABLE FOR ALL STAFF REGARDLESS OF HOW TECH SAVVY THEY ARE. FINALLY, SCHOOLWIRES IDEOLOGY APPEARS TO BE ONE OF ‘WE CAN ALWAYS BE BETTER’ AND THEY KNOW THAT BY ASKING THE CUSTOMERS WHAT THEY NEED AND THEN DELIVERING IT. ”— Patty Glaser, Community Relations / Public Relations, Bremerton School District








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Proof of performance Can you trust your vendor?

Sales pitches and marketing campaigns aside, will they deliver on what they say they will provide? Proof of performance is essential when starting a relationship with a new vendor.

Track record• How many districts and schools has the provider worked with?

• Is the provider financially strong with demonstrated momentum?

References• Can you get references from multiple districts with needs similar to yours?

• Are these references enthusiastic and passionate about their experience with the vendor?

Customer retention• What’s the customer retention rate?

• Has the rate stayed the same over time?

Satisfaction• Can the provider supply key metrics of customer satisfaction?

• Overall satisfaction, responsiveness, and reliability are all important benchmarks on the level of service the provider delivers.

“ THE SUPPORT IS PHENOMENAL, THE STAFF IS FRIENDLY AND HELPFUL AND THE PRODUCT IS AMAZINGLY SIMPLE TO WORK WITH. ”— Colin Byrne Director of Technology, Blind Brook Public Schools, New York








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ComplianceDigital communication tools offer a variety of features and functions that can greatly benefit your district. There are some basic requirements of any digital tools you introduce to your K-12 community.

Critical questions can quickly determine if the vendor you are working with provides technologies that will protect sensitive data and be accessible to all your users.

ADA compliance

Does the solution help you comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act?

COPPA compliance

Will the solution comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act?

TRUSTe certification

Will the solution be TRUSTe Certified—signaling the highest level of privacy protection?

“ IT IS OVERALL A NICE PLATFORM AND THE CUSTOMER SERVICE AND TRAINING ARE VERY GOOD. ”— Ron Velez, Chief Technology Officer, McKenna Elementary School

“ IT LOOKS GOOD, SOFTWARE IS STABLE, SERVER IS RELIABLE, AND CUSTOMER SERVICE IS VERY GOOD. ”— Lynn Briley, Webmaster, Upper Moreland School District








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Reliability and data securityA great looking website and mobile app are only useful for community engagement if they are dependable and secure. Reliability may not be the most exciting concern for your engagement tools, but it is the foundation on which your tools must be built. When it comes to critical performance criteria, which should you closely examine?

Technology reliabilityIdeally, your website or mobile app will be hosted at a state-of-the-art facility that guarantees virtually uninterrupted uptime, and that provides 24x7x365 monitoring of critical systems and applications that’s trusted not only by other districts, but by many Fortune 500 corporations as well. Schoolwires can document 99.9% uptime, maintained during peak times in a K-12 calendar, including back-to-school.

Consistently high performanceLack of responsiveness, crashes, and errors cause a disjointed user experience. Regardless of capacity, your solution should offer a seamless experience for users. Latency of less than one second should be expected with mobile apps.

Flexibility and scalabilityYour district’s needs change over time. Enrollment growth, the amount of data you store, advancement on the ROC model, and other unknown events all change your needs. Peak times of web traffic and seasonality can put stress on your system. Your solution should adapt and grow with your district.

Data protection and recoveryLost or unrecoverable data can be catastrophic. The ability to automatically store, back-up, and quickly recover your data is essential. Your solution should provide backup media encryption, user-assigned data access capability, and other safeguards.

Make sure your vendor offers hosting services such as Distributed Denial of Service (DDS), off-site backup with an extended retention policy, disaster recovery, SSL encryption, vulnerability scans, and managed firewalls.

“ GREAT PRODUCT. GOOD FUNCTIONALITY. GREAT SUPPORT.”— Marianthe Williams, Technology Director, River Dell Regional Schools








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VisionImplementing a change is a large commitment from your district. You have to be certain the company you build a relationship with is moving in a direction that will continue to serve your district for years to come. Will the company meet the growing needs of your district?

To be certain, here are some key questions and considerations to help discover a company’s long-term viability:

• Is the company willing to share its vision for the future with you?

• What new products or enhancements can you expect?

• Does the solution provider have mechanisms in place to collect feedback from K-12 district leaders? The best solutions in the K-12 market are constantly informed by districts themselves.

• Does your provider have its finger on the pulse of the market?

• Do they conduct research and publish valuable content? How actionable is the content?

• Which thought leaders does the provider work with?

• Are the provider and its management team themselves considered thought leaders?

InteroperableSchoolwires products will work well with other systems your district uses, on any device users are currently using—or will be using in the future. By creating service orientated architecture, we make sure our products work within your technology ecosystem is a key component to completing our vision.

ExtensibleCommunity engagement often requires tools that are unique to the problem your district is encountering. Through PassKeys, your district can connect other systems to Schoolwires and enable single sign-on access. Our vision extends those capabilities to allow for external developers to develop their own tools or plug-ins to make your district’s technology work together.

UnifiedTechnology users anticipate a consistent user experience. A truly unified experience allows users to encounter a variety of different technologies that are seamlessly integrated into one platform, with real-time data exchange and broad deployment. Enabling dynamic and configurable infrastructure to streamline your existing technologies is the Schoolwires unified vision.

“ I WOULD MOST DEFINITELY RECOMMEND GOING WITH SCHOOLWIRES AS THE SUPPORT, DESIGN, AND CONTINUAL IMPROVEMENTS ARE EXCELLENT. I HAVE HAD BASICALLY NO CONCERNS, ISSUES, OR TROUBLES SINCE OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT WENT WITH SCHOOLWIRES. ”— Cindy Miller, Executive Assistant, Corvallis School District








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Rate providers on a scale of 1–5, with 5 being excellent.

Breadth/depth of capabilities Provider’s name: Schoolwires

Web content management & community engagement• Provides a unified user experience at each of your district, school, and teacher websites through district-controlled navigation, branding,

and layout standards.

• Downloadable mobile app that supports your district’s mobile communications strategy and works seamlessly with your CMS; one that can be branded for your district, and lets you publish content to your website, right from your smartphone.

• Ability to quickly roll out teacher web pages with pre-designed layouts that can be easily personalized by your teachers.

• Ability to easily create and publish custom databases, such as staff directories, book lists, and athletic schedules.

• Content controls that allow your editors to review and approve any content before it is published.

• Provides seamless navigation throughout your district’s family of websites from the district home page to school sites, teacher web pages, and departmental sites.

• Ability to upload any video format and enable playback on any device without plugins.

• Ability to tag videos and comment on content.

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Rating toolTo consider which communications tools will work best for your district, it’s important to rank key criteria. Schoolwires had developed this Rating Tool to make it easy for you to determine if the needs for your district will be met.








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Communication and collaboration• Ability to enable safe social media functionality on virtually any aspect of any web page, in order to increase community participation.

• Ability for users to set up a personal dashboard where they can view the information they care about most, all in one place.

• Provides a strong communications engine for pushing targeted messages via email to your subscribers.

• Ability for your community members to subscribe to automated email notifications that let them know when website content of interest to them has been updated.

• Allows instant information broadcasts and alerts to groups of constituents via multiple channels (website, email, Facebook, Twitter, push notifications, and text messaging).

• Provides safe and powerful social collaborative tools including blogs, podcasts, forums, and wikis.

• Ability to create online tests, surveys, and registrations with results automatically compiled and delivered in a variety of reporting styles.

User experience• Easy for novice users to contribute, yet also provides sophisticated features and functionality for advanced editors.

• Ability for your district to grant access to certain features and functions based upon an individual’s permissions, role and group; users may have multiple roles for different areas but require only one account.

• Allows your district to configure single sign-on access to the web-based services you wish to provide to your community members, without being dependent on the provider or other third party.

• Allows individuals to leverage commonly used web applications to create and edit web content.

• Enables defined functionality and relevant information to be presented to individuals based on their permissions, roles, and groups within your district.

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Company considerations• Provider is committed to focusing on and meeting the unique needs of K-12 school districts and working toward expanding solutions and

services as clients’ needs evolve.

• Provider conducts extensive research and works with reputable thought leaders, associations, school district leaders, and clients to continually expand products and services to meet the needs of K-12 schools.

• Provider’s employees are committed to education as evidenced by their participation in K-12 local, regional, and national professional associations and boards.

• Provider has knowledgeable client support staffs based in the United States who are available to personally take your call and provide you with immediate assistance.

• Provider has an open technology approach that will accommodate integration with various third-party systems, such as student information systems, grade books, and email.

• Your district can extend the value of its website by creating and/or modifying features and functions that address specific needs not met by the core product.

• Provider discloses the FTE of client support personnel and software engineers available to assist your district.

• Provider offers a state-of-the-art system for use by its client base to collaboratively identify and prioritize feature requests and product enhancements.

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Criteria Provider’s name: Schoolwires

Branding • Enables your district to enhance and maintain your brand, while still providing design flexibility at the school, department, and teacher web

page levels.

• Solution provides you with flexibility to choose between designing your own template, selecting from a catalog of brand-ready templates, or working with the provider’s creative team to create a made to order design. Ability to easily cascade a new look throughout your district’s family of websites to coordinate with changes such as seasons, holidays, or events.

• Navigational structures automatically update when pages are added to your website.

• Designers have project management experience and work directly with your district to make sure your vision is executed effectively.

Extended reach • Downloadable branded mobile app that supports your district’s mobile communications strategy and works seamlessly with your CMS; one

that can be branded for your district, and lets you publish content to your website, right from your smartphone.

• Provide easy mobile access to home screen, announcements, headline news, calendar of events, and lunch menus.

• Responsive web design services which include five break points to ensure your website renders correctly on most mobile devices.

• Supports multiple communication channels, making it easy to create once, publish everywhere. Channels should include: voice, text, email, push notifications, and social media.

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Service and support • Provider is committed to your success by requiring expert installation, initial training, and responsive support services tailored to your

district’s specific needs.

• Provider exhibits a track record of launching a district’s website on time, within scope, and within the district’s budget.

• Provider offers a full range of services, including design, implementation, hosting, and training.

• Solution provides you with access to comprehensive, 24/7 anytime, anywhere training webinars, training collateral, and online video tutorials, enabling your teachers and staff to learn at their own pace and at a time that works best for them.

• Exclusive and active online client community that provides collaboration and communication opportunities for sharing ideas, information, templates, best practices, and other resources with your peers.

• Customer support is available 24/7 via phone, email, or online support portal with a minimum guaranteed response of one business day after receiving notice of issue.

Proof of Performance• Provider serves an extensive client base of districts of all sizes, with different requirements and unique needs, while maintaining a high client

retention rate.

• Provider can provide multiple references as to the quality, speed, and availability of on-demand services and support.

• Provider is fiscally sound, consistently growing each year, is nationally recognized for its product offerings, and focused solely on the K-12 market.

• Provider can present multiple references from districts of similar size and requirements as yours.

• Provider exhibits a strong, steady client retention rate within the K-12 school market that proves its success in providing high levels of value and service to its clients.

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Compliance• Immediate emergency support is available 24/7 via phone.

• Provider facilitates compliance with The Americans with Disabilities Act.

• Provider facilitates compliance with The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act.

Reliability and Data Security• Provider has been recognized from outside sources for a commitment to reliability.

• Distributed Denial of Service, off-site backup with extended retention policy, dictator recovery, SSL encryption, vulnerability scans, and managed firewalls are considered essential to provider’s data security plan.

• Provider is a member of the Schools Interoperability Framework Association (SIFA).

• Provider’s hosting environment provides your district with 24/7/365 monitoring of critical systems and applications.

• Provider’s hosting environment provides your district with secure, reliable and redundant data protection and disaster recovery.

• Provider’s hosting environment provides your website with a high capacity internet connection with multiple carriers to ensure consistent, reliable page-load times.

• Provider offers enterprise-class Tier 3 hosting services that protect your data with physical security, data encryption, user authentication, and application security using the latest firewall protection, intrusion detection systems, SSL encryption, and other security products.

• Provider has been recognized by national organizations for reliability.

• Provider offers the option for your district to host its site on your own servers.

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Vision• The company offers visibility and insight into their product roadmap as well as research and development.

• The provider shares valuable content and research regarding community engagement strategies.

• The provider offers an avenue to share feedback about solutions and to give input on daily challenges your district faces to encourage innovative product development.

• The vision of the company is focused on making the user experience seamless, regardless of which solutions the school district includes.

Technology infrastructure• Solution is scalable and robust enough to meet the needs of your district, whether small, medium, or large.

• One unifying solution that provides comprehensive content management, mobile support, notification suite, safe social media functionality, and web-based services for your district’s website community.

• Ability to connect to your district’s student information system to automatically update classroom rosters, saving the time required to reenter student information.

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Community-based infrastructure• Ability to keep your community members informed when they’re on the go, with mobile solutions that provide easy access to your website,

anytime, anywhere.

• District-wide intranet solution that is the communications hub for your staff to actively participate in idea sharing, project teams, professional development, and job support.

• The one-stop internet hub for your district’s community members to interact and engage with information, resources, and people.

• Safe social media services are woven into the very fabric of the solution for your key stakeholders to connect and engage with your district.

• Ability to share content and services with your community members through permissions managed by profile, role, or group.

• Ability to easily integrate any web-based tools already in use in your classrooms, providing easy access to your teachers and students.

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The Schoolwires storySchoolwires is dedicated to K-12 education, and to the people who are part of every local school community — students, families, teachers, administrators, and supporters of education. From the beginning, we’ve believed that a successful school district is a product of total community involvement. That’s why our mobile and Web-based solutions are expressly designed to connect K-12 communities with the information, services and people they need to achieve their district goals. For more than 10 years, our intuitive technologies have been helping administrators and educators, students and parents, communicate and collaborate like never before — to come together around success.

Today, an estimated 11 million users in the U.S. and China rely on our content management system, mobile solutions and safe collaborative learning community to drive engagement in the classroom, locally and across the globe. We’re proud to be a part of that. And we remain committed to helping K-12 communities extend their local reach and transcend the boundaries of their districts so that individuals everywhere can achieve their full potential.







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