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Bloomz is an app that has the look of a social media but focus in a quick and efficient communication between parents and teachers. From setting up appointments to reminders of school events. all that information in one app which make it super easy from parent to keep up.

Video tutorial:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkiTA_acE8E

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Bloomz makes it easy for Teachers and Schools to safely communicate and coordinate with parents, share media, school events, instantly message parents and more. Parents love it too!

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Shelbie Dallas
CORAdvantage is a newer way to communicate with parents. On this app, teachers can send newsletters, communicate with parents in their native language, send messages. It has everything most other communication apps do. But it also has an early childhood assessment tool in it.
Tutorial:  Cor Advantage Explanation - YouTube

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Livingtree Engage
https://learn.livingtree.com/

Livingtree is a secure platform that allows students, families, educators, and schools to connect. It strives to promote partnerships, class engagement, and communication.  The app is similar to a school focused social media platform that allows teachers and students to post everything from assignments to comments.

Tutorial:
I struggled to find a video tutorial, however this video does explain the app as well as some of the benefits of the app.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xV6rfy81VWE

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Microsoft Teams is the hub for teamwork in Microsoft 365. The Teams service enables instant messaging, audio and video calling, online meetings, and web conferences. Teams can be used for department communication as well as schoolwide communication because of its large variety of uses and capabilities.
Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ojm-SkL_zE

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Video Conferencing, Meetings, Calling | Microsoft Teams

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Working together is easier with Microsoft Teams. Tools and files are always available in one place that's designed to help you connect naturally, stay organized and bring ideas to life.*

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link: https://www.parentsquare.com/
This new type of communication is new to the school district I work in. This app is used for school communication, primarily with email, text, app notifications. This app automatically generates an account for each parent. With this app, parents can receive message from the school, direct message teachers, staff, and other parents, and receive report cards.
Tutorial: https://youtu.be/xOaxk_u0mqA

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Kaylynn Hayden
https://mybrightwheel.com
Brightwheel is used for classroom management. With this app, teachers can message parents as well as send pictures/videos to them of their child. Teachers also use the app for attendance, lunch count, lesson plans and other documents they want to share with parents and other teachers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qr8hDAXLgs

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#1 childcare software

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Brightwheel | The #1 Childcare Management Software & App

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Ranked as leading childcare center software based on external reviews. Simplify administrative tasks with brightwheel's all-in-one app & save up to 20 hrs per month. 90% of preschools report that more families pay on time with brightwheel. 95% of administrators & staff report brightwheel improves communication with families.

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Seesaw is a tool that fits in both the tools for cummunicating with students column, as the toold for communicating with parents column. It is a multifunctional tool! It allows students to post their on what looks like a social feed and help them, and you as the teacher, create a portfolio. Parents are able to see what their child is working on in class, which will help in communicating with parents about student work and progress! There are many options to personalize it as the teacher. It's a great tool for building home-to-school connections!

Here is a quick tutorial an how to use seesaw:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l231B9sk_nI

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Seesaw | Elementary Learning Experience Platform

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Elementary Learning Experience Platform | Seesaw

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Seesaw is a Learning Experience Platform with 25M+ users, enhancing elementary education, engagement, and school culture while improving academic success.

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http://ww1.scootdoodle.com/

Scoot and Doodle is an engaging environment for students to learn. On Scoot & Doodle Hangouts, as many as 10 students can work in virtual teams. These teams are able to solve problems and brainstorm solutions to educational content uploaded by teachers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvfjZYbFbJU

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Class Dojo:
https://www.classdojo.com/

Class dojo is for teacher/parent communication and teacher/student communication. It is a free app for IOS and Android, and a website as well. There are three main features of class dojo: classroom, class story, and messages. Below are descriptions of each.

Classroom: teachers track student development in the form of points, obtained by doing assignments in class and on the app. Students can see their own progress, but not that of others, so there is no competition. Classroom also includes points for classroom behavior that parents can see.

Class story: teachers post lessons or completed work for parents to see so they know what their kids are learning and how they are progressing. Teachers and parents can directly comment on assignments, photos, and videos.

Messages: parents and teachers can directly communicate from the app or website. Parents can get these messages via email if desired.

One of Class Dojo’s best features is that it can translate into over 35 languages so parents and guardians that are not native English speakers can see their student’s information in their own language.

https://youtu.be/ZGsKw_rXnJg

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ClassDojo helps teachers, parents, and students build amazing classroom communities.

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Google hangouts would be a great way to communicate with the students especially if you are already using google drive for most of the assignments.  The reason why this is such a great place is because it is like texting but over an email thing, and with this you can communicate not just by text but also with video chats. https://hangouts.google.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5eahHCwK8g

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Here is a video tutorial to use Remind.

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Remind is an application that allows ease of communication between educators, students, and teachers through direct messages and notifications. Remind sends messages as texts without the exchange of phone numbers, but it insures safety and security through the app. Not everyone has the chance to look at their email, and many students do not look at their email often. By sending this as a text, it allows students to get reminders and contact their teacher in a more direct and efficient way. It has the ability to send class-wide, small group, or individual messages, I have used Remind both as a student and as a club leader, and I have found massive success when communicating through Remind, rather than through email.

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Adoption and usage

Simple, effective, and surprisingly easy to use

With nearly 30 million users in 80% of US schools, the numbers speak for themselves: students, families, and educators love using Remind.

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Remind | Communication Platform for Education

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Remind is a communication platform that reaches students and families where they are and supports learning wherever it happens. Millions of educators, students, and parents use Remind to connect with the people and resources that help them teach and learn.

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Link to FoldingStory: FoldingStory | The Group Storytelling Game
Description: FoldingStory allows students to collaborate on assignments through a fun storytelling game. One student starts a story, and their peers add to it. The finished product is a story that reflects the diversity of the group of students.

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Bloomz is a communication app between schools and parents. It has all the information a parent may need right in the app. These features include: wellness monitoring, attendance, behavior monitoring, and more. The reason Bloomz stuck out to me was the parents can locate behavior data and see all alerts for school notifications or class specific announcements all in one place.

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Health Screening
Simplify health screening processes for all members with customizable forms, question categorization, automated alerts for positive submissions, and detailed administrator reports.
Download Administrator Reports Factsheet
Forms & Permission Slips
New in 2022! Save time by distributing permission slips and forms in preferred languages with pre-populated student/parent information and easily collect signatures for compliance. Bloomz is a teacher parent communication app with a robust permission slip feature.

Groups & Subgroups
Foster an environment that supports the whole child. Subgroups inside of classrooms with a variety of roles/permissions allow support staff such as counselors, speech therapists, special-ed, aides, paras, etc. to share crucial information with parents and guardians.

- More About Creating Groups & Adding Members

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Parent Communication App with PBIS Behavior Management - Bloomz

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Health Screening Simplify health screening processes for all members with customizable forms, question categorization, automated alerts for positive submissions, and detailed administrator reports. Download Administrator Reports Factsheet Forms & Permission Slips New in 2022! Save time by distributing permission slips and forms in preferred languages with pre-populated student/parent information and easily collect signatures for compliance.

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Mikayla Meeden - Tutorial for FoldingStory

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I could not find a video tutorial for Folding Story, but this article explains how to use it: Read and Write Fun Collaborative Stories with Foldingstory (thenextweb.com)

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When I was little, for playtime in English lessons the teacher would make us sit around in a circle. I can still see my 7-year-old self getting excited about 'folded story-time'.

A Folded Story is a story created by a group of people that do not know what the whole story contains. Different people write different sentences only knowing what the person before them wrote. Folding the paper and passing it along when they were done would keep the whole story a secret till the end.

Reflecting back it was so enjoyable not because the stories when finished were Pulitzer Prize winning. Rather the fun element came in the shape of the silly jokes that someone witty would write that made the stories a laugh.

Now there's a website that does this with a Twitter twist, each sentence/entry is limited by 140 characters. At the start I was uncertain if it would be as enjoyable, but it is. The site is aptly named FoldingStory and is founded by a group of childhood friends from the Strong Street company. What began as a hobby has now taken a life of its own as its popularity grows.

Foldingstory is really easy to use, after registering and activating your account you have three options: Read, Create or Add. If you want to Read, you can read a completed story or an unfinished story. I recommend you select a finished story that has a high score to get the best reading experience.

However if you want to partake in the fun, then hit the Add button. Select which story you want to add to from a list of; almost finished, barely started, newest and oldest. Then you are given 4 minutes to create and post your 140 character sentence.

If you want to create a story, press the create button and type away, there is no time limit but the 140 characters rules apply. Additionally when you create or add to a story there are some rules to posting which essentially come down to DON'T WRITE LIKE THIS BECAUSE IT'S SHOUTING or be a troll.

Sharing a story is optional with Facebook and Twitter buttons. Stories are rated using Facebook Likes, which is a clever viral twist, and there is a leader-board of contributors. Members can chose to follow writers they like. Each person has a profile to track their activities.

Commenting on each story is possible, however users have off-topic conversations in the comments section which shows there is a need for a direct messaging system.

This would be ideal as a Twitter game and a deeper integration with Twitter would make it go mega viral.

Foldingstory is just like the game we played as children but now online with grown ups from all over the internet. If you have a few minutes to burn go have a read and a try.

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Download the new KinderCare App for a window into your child's day. You can access pictures and updates throughout the day, plus a new messaging feature. Ask your Center Director when the app will be live in your center. Once your center is ready, check your inbox for an invitation email and follow the link to set up your password for the app.

We hope you're enjoying using KinderCare!
This version contains the following updates:

Brand new login experience that is faster and more reliable
Improvements to how data is refreshed in the app and pull to refresh functionality
Bug fixes
Performance improvements

Peace of Mind

My wife and I was doing home care with a relative for our toddler, but wanted to expose her to a learning environment. We must have looked at 10 different centers, but non of them felt like a good fit! However when we visited Kindercare, I felt very inviting and comfortable! I loved that it was small enough to know everyone! Even on our second visit, they remembered my wife's name! It's the small things like that which makes you feel comfortable knowing they care enough to know who you are as a family! I love the Kindercare App, with the constant pictures and updates throughout the day! Makes you feel as if you are spending the day with your little one. I recieved a incident report, because my daughter had a small scratch to her lip which I contributed to her lips being chapped a little! However, it's that attention to detail that makes you know the teachers are completely attentive to your little one while in thier care. It's an awareness that often gets dismissed, but not by the staff here! I could not be more pleased with our choice to go with Kindercare, thank you for giving my wife and I a " Peace of Mind", knowing our daughter is is in a safe, nurturing and learning environment for her care.

First time parent heaven!

As a first time parent I felt extremely anxious at the thought of going back to work and leaving my infant daughter in the hands of strangers all day throughout the week. Never in a million years did I think that I would be able to have such constant access into what's going on with my child every day! This app has been the biggest stress reliever during this transition. I get to see live-time updates on my daughter's sleep, feeding sessions, and diaper changes. Not to mention the ability to receive picture updates on what activities she's doing that day! Plus, should I need to communicate with her teachers I can message with them through the app. If you are going Kinder Care for child care you NEED this app! And if you are nervous about child care and looking for a deciding factor, let me tell you this app will absolutely solidify your decision to go with Kinder Care!

Kinder Care App

I absolutely love the new app, I am able too see pictures of my son and track his activity throughout the day. The teachers and center have always provided me updates daily for my son and always giving me updates at the end of the day, which is fantastic!! But this app really pulls everything together from a visual perspective and the best part is the daily pictures, now I have the opportunity to start a book of him growing with his teachers with pictures of him and his art work in tandem together. I want my son to look back and see the teachers, and other toddlers, to know whom was there to take care of him and see how much he is loved. Carol, Beverly, Teresa, Carmen, Sam, Amberly, Monica, I could just keep going with names of teachers have been awesome with my son. I am very happy with the new app!!! I really feel that the Center in Roseville CA should be acknowledged with all there hard work and dedication to the children and families!!!

The developer, KinderCare, indicated that the app's privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer's privacy policy.

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The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:

Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More

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