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Discover what’s driving real attendance gains today. This webinar features breakthrough strategies, new data, and lessons from Tulsa Public Schools—plus expert insights from Attendance Works and TalkingPoints on how family partnerships can shift outcomes. Watch now for actionable ideas you can use immediately.
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Discover how the TalkingPoints platform is evolving for the 2025-2026 school year. Research backed enhancements focus on real-time attendance analytics, extending classroom learning at home, and strengthening positive family connections.
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New for the 2025-2026 school year, Attendance Improvement Plus is a powerful solution for solving attendance challenges.
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Get your first look at the enhancements coming to TalkingPoints for back-to-school 2025, including new Foundation features and the Attendance Improvement Plus package—all designed to improve family engagement and boost student success.
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See how TalkingPoints is using its industry-leading translation to deliver Emergency Alerts and Broadcast Notifications to all families via call, text, email, or app -- when it matters most!
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Brochures
This guide helps buyers identify the essential features a solution needs to support effective family-school partnerships. It covers key topics such as Universal Family Engagement components, platform design, support, services, data, research, and results.
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CTOs and CIOs can use this vendor checklist to evaluate EdTech providers and ensure compliance, security, accessibility, privacy, and safe data handling for their schools and district.
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Explore how TalkingPoints helps students thrive by building trusting relationships between families and schools. This guide highlights the solutions’ impact on attendance, academic achievement, and student well-being.
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Explore potential qualified funding sources for the TalkingPoints Universal Family Engagement platform.
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Equip your school with the TalkingPoints Admin Family Connect suite for equitable family engagement through powerful tools and communication channels.
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Learn how the new TalkingPoints Attendance Improvement Plus package supports outcomes-focused attendance with targeted messaging, real-time analytics, automated absence messages, a consolidated attendance inbox, and more.
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Compare the benefits of TalkingPoints’ free Teacher Only Account and paid School or District Account with this detailed feature breakdown including permissions, reports, engagement options, and more.
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See how TalkingPoints Document Translation helps school staff make newsletters, flyers, documents and invitations more accessible to families.
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Discover how the Universal Family Engagement platform combines embedded best practices, scaled family engagement, and data-informed guidance to foster family-school partnerships and drive student outcomes.
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Discover how the TalkingPoints platform is evolving for the 2025-2026 school year. Research backed enhancements focus on real-time attendance analytics, extending classroom learning at home, and strengthening positive family connections.
Read more
See how TalkingPoints is using its industry-leading translation to deliver Emergency Alerts and Broadcast Notifications to all families via call, text, email, or app -- when it matters most!
Read more
Guides
This guide helps buyers identify the essential features a solution needs to support effective family-school partnerships. It covers key topics such as Universal Family Engagement components, platform design, support, services, data, research, and results.
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CTOs and CIOs can use this vendor checklist to evaluate EdTech providers and ensure compliance, security, accessibility, privacy, and safe data handling for their schools and district.
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Explore how TalkingPoints helps students thrive by building trusting relationships between families and schools. This guide highlights the solutions’ impact on attendance, academic achievement, and student well-being.
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Explore potential qualified funding sources for the TalkingPoints Universal Family Engagement platform.
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Compare the benefits of TalkingPoints’ free Teacher Only Account and paid School or District Account with this detailed feature breakdown including permissions, reports, engagement options, and more.
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Podcasts
In a time of uncertainty, schools can’t go it alone—and neither can families. This webinar explores how K–12 leaders can engage families at both the system and classroom levels to build trust, solve problems, and support student success together.
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Research Reports
This benchmark survey of more than 600 teachers and school and district administrators explores how districts implement family engagement best practices and their impact on student outcomes.
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TalkingPoints researchers analyze 40 million messages sent within the TalkingPoints platform to understand the dynamic engagement between schools and families. Topics, tone, timing, and staff role all are all research factors studied in this report.
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This study of 30,000 students from Tulsa Public Schools uncovers the impact of TalkingPoints on student attendance. Findings show a statistically significant decrease in absenteeism rates and an increase in days students are present in school.
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This study examines student-level data, including absenteeism rates, standards-based grades, and state standardized assessment scores, comparing schools that have adopted TalkingPoints with those that have not in a large U.S. urban school district.
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The findings in this causal study show interventions like TalkingPoints help close learning gaps and reduce absenteeism, with the greatest impact on traditionally underserved students.
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Quasi-experimental causal studies highlight the impact of effective family-school partnerships in improving student attendance.
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Success Stories
At Esperanza Cyber Charter School, Principal Melissa Molina took a strategic, data-driven approach to communication, uncovering a surprising insight that transformed family engagement.
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In one of the most linguistically diverse school districts in America, accurate translation for family communication is non-negotiable. Partnering with TalkingPoints helps Aurora Public Schools better support families and foster open two-way communication.
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Cincinnati Public Schools empowers the families of its 36,000 students with real-time communication in their native language. From sports practices to permission slip reminders, staff use TalkingPoints to break language barriers for stronger family-school partnerships.
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When emails and phone calls fell short, Marlborough Public Schools revitalized family engagement with TalkingPoints. In just two months, staff and families exchanged over 120,000 messages, breaking down barriers and decreasing absenteeism.
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From disconnected to empowered — Bensalem Township turns a TalkingPoints pilot into its district-wide engagement strategy. The district uses data and determination to build genuine connections between families and staff.
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School staff spent hours calling families of absent students every day, often with little to no response. With unexcused absences on the rise, Mounds View Public Schools transformed its attendance process using TalkingPoints’ text-based engagement—seeing immediate results.
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Pittsburgh Public Schools’ partnership with TalkingPoints began during the pandemic when communication home became challenging. Since then, real-time translated text messages and video captions continue to transform engagement and family relationships.
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Serving a diverse student community that speaks 72 languages, Putnam City Schools relies on TalkingPoints’ real-time document translation and two-way communication to build trust and strong connections with families.
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Videos
Discover how TalkingPoints’ Universal Family Engagement platform helps build strong school-family partnerships in this short overview video.
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New for the 2025-2026 school year, Attendance Improvement Plus is a powerful solution for solving attendance challenges.
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Get your first look at the enhancements coming to TalkingPoints for back-to-school 2025, including new Foundation features and the Attendance Improvement Plus package—all designed to improve family engagement and boost student success.
Watch now
Webinars
In a time of uncertainty, schools can’t go it alone—and neither can families. This webinar explores how K–12 leaders can engage families at both the system and classroom levels to build trust, solve problems, and support student success together.
Watch now
Discover what’s driving real attendance gains today. This webinar features breakthrough strategies, new data, and lessons from Tulsa Public Schools—plus expert insights from Attendance Works and TalkingPoints on how family partnerships can shift outcomes. Watch now for actionable ideas you can use immediately.
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Evolving family engagement from a “nice to have” to a high-impact strategy starts with a mindset shift. This webinar shares step-by-step instructions for reframing your approach, best practices for digital and in-person engagement, and what outcomes you can expect from this transformation.
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District communication can move beyond just high-priority, time sensitive topics and into authentic, trust building messages. This webinar shares five practical strategies to turn every communication into a meaningful connection with families.
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Engaged families are the key to gaining critical insight into why a student may be struggling. In this edWebinar, district leaders will learn five actionable strategies for engaging with and learning from families to support Tier 2 and Tier 3 interventions.
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Use first-semester data to strengthen family partnerships and improve student outcomes before the school year ends. This recorded edWebinar provides districts with actionable family engagement strategies to implement after winter break.
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Bensalem Township School District and the TalkingPoints team discuss the power of the TalkingPoints platform in this webinar. Learn how the district secured funding, implemented the platform, and saw its impact on teachers, staff, and families.
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Panelists discuss key findings from the 2024 National Benchmark Survey of teachers and school and district administrators. The research explores the state of family engagement, effective relationship-building strategies, impacts on student outcomes, and more.
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Discover how to leverage family engagement as a high-impact strategy to improve student outcomes. This edWebinar covers key questions to address challenges, strategies to build a culture of trust, and messaging examples to support teacher retention, student attendance, and well-being.
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In this webinar, San Juan Unified School District and TalkingPoints team up reveal five key strategies for heads of communications to improve student outcomes by shifting from one-way communication to meaningful, two-way engagement.
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Getting students in the classroom is the first step to improving educational outcomes. In this webinar, the TalkingPoints team explores strategies to engage families, boost attendance, and leverage new TalkingPoints features to support these goals.
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Make the most of the summer months by strengthening your prevention strategies and setting the stage for a successful school year. In this webinar, you'll learn five ways to use family engagement as an early intervention strategy.
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