ParentSquare

ParentSquare is a communication platform designed to facilitate engagement and collaboration between K-12 schools, families, teachers, and administrators. According to the vendor, ParentSquare offers a range of tools and features that aim to streamline communication, empower teachers, involve families in their students' success, and strengthen the connection between schools and families. This product is intended for K-12 schools of various sizes, from individual schools to large school districts. Education professionals, school administrators, teachers, parents and families, as well as school districts, are among the target users of ParentSquare.

Key Features

Mass Notifications: According to the vendor, ParentSquare provides tools for district leaders to maximize engagement and ensure consistency. It allows users to send important alerts to specific groups or broadcast messages across all channels. Additionally, users can set up message templates in advance and manage internal and external social posts through the platform.

Classroom Communications: The vendor states that ParentSquare empowers teachers to effectively reach every family by offering various tools and channels. Teachers can conveniently message parents privately or initiate group conversations. They can also add sign-up slots to posts for volunteering or supplies, as well as increase participation in parent-teacher conferences with time slot sign-ups and reminders. Furthermore, ParentSquare enables the sending of posts, messages, and alerts to students through the StudentSquare app, while also providing a directory to facilitate connections between parents, teachers, and staff.

School Services: ParentSquare allows users to embed interactive forms, documents, and other services to increase response rates and participation, according to the vendor. It offers secure embedding of permission slips or forms requiring a signature into posts and the ability to add time slot sign-ups for appointments and material pick-ups. The platform also enables the sending of invoices and payment requests for field trips and supplies. Additionally, ParentSquare can automatically notify parents regarding student-specific scenarios such as attendance or lunch balances. The vendor claims that using ParentSquare for sending confidential, student-specific documents electronically can save time and money.

School Websites: According to the vendor, ParentSquare provides an intuitive website tool to manage content easily. Users can publish media-rich posts and urgent alerts to multiple channels, select from flexible designs that showcase the school's brand, and assign user rights for website and messaging permissions. The platform also facilitates the migration of existing content and ensures ADA compliance. Additionally, ParentSquare allows for pushing content to unlimited social media feeds and calendars, while providing translation tools to reach all families in their preferred language.