TalkingPoints Expands Reach 6x and Facilitates 100M Conversations!
TalkingPoints has expanded reach more than 6x since March 2020, connecting more than 3 million teachers and families, and enabling 100 million conversations, in 100 languages!
Staying on Parents’ RADAR
As teachers on break, we want to respect the space it affords students and their families to relax, but we also want to remain approachable to provide support until school resumes. In other words, we want to stay on families’ RADAR.
East Garner Case Study – How TalkingPoints Serves as the Bridge Between Wake County Schools and Families
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 […]
Family Engagement & Bullying Prevention
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 […]
RACING TO SCALE DURING A PANDEMIC
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 […]
TalkingPoints & Clearing Roadblocks to Effective Family Engagement
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 […]
Celebrating 5 Years of Impact with TalkingPoints
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 […]