Learn how teachers are using TalkingPoints to connect with families outside the classroom, across language barriers, and much more.
This month we celebrate five years of driving family engagement to improve educational outcomes for some of our country’s most vulnerable students. We are so grateful for the support of the educators, administrators, funders, and partners that make our work possible. Together, we are making a difference in the lives of the 1.5 million families […]
Navigating communication over long breaks When it comes to keeping in touch with the parents of our students, the activities of the school year calendar give us plenty to talk about: registration, assignments, progress reports, and extra-curricular events. What about long breaks like Winter or Summer Vacation? How should we keep in touch? After all, […]
TalkingPoints’ multilingual family engagement platform helps build relationships and increase engagement between students, teachers, and families Meet Wake County and East Garner Magnet Middle School Wake County is the largest school district in North Carolina, and one of the largest districts in the nation. East Garner Magnet Middle School is located in Garner, a farming […]
Using TalkingPoints to Connect, Model and Promote Awareness With grades due and the holidays fast approaching, it’s easy to understand why educators and families are so busy this time of year–especially when you consider the added challenges of distance and hybrid learning. But no matter what new difficulties we face in helping our students this […]
Tripling the reach of one’s service in just four months — from 500,000 to 1.5 Million — would be impressive and rewarding for anyone. But for TalkingPoints, a non-profit with a multilingual tech platform that helps teachers communicate with families in any of 100 languages, scaling rapidly was a response to an emergency situation. Without […]
It’s easy to want the best education for our students. But building the relationships between school and home to make that education possible isn’t always a smooth journey. Families and teachers may face constraints on time, resources, and skills to foster these connections–and that’s just in a normal school year. Distance and hybrid learning have […]
Meet Jennifer Jennifer McGraner is a junior high English Learner teacher in Pickerington School District in Pickerington, Ohio. Pickerington Schools is a diverse district with over 500 ELs speaking more than 57 different languages. In her 13th year of teaching, Jennifer works with English Learner students and is responsible for screening new students for EL […]