Drive student outcomes with the leading Universal Family Engagement platform
Foster highly effective home-school partnerships with TalkingPoints for Districts & Schools.
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TalkingPoints uniquely combines embedded expert guidance, scaled communications tools, and data-driven interventions in one research-based platform that delivers proven results.
Family Engagement Expertise
- Message Mentor: Job-embedded AI messaging guidance
- Attendance Toolkit: Mitigate absenses & address root causes
- Best Practices Tips: PD infused within everyday activities
- Templates: Pre-built, pre-translated best practices messages
- Family Capacity-building: In-app context & guidance supports
Scaled Family Communication
- Universal Admin Communications: One- and two-way admin messaging tools - audio, video, polls, email
- Document Translation: Translate attachments sent to families
- Custom & Base Roles: Secure access & permissions management for all staff
- Student Messaging: Secure and streamlined text or app-based collaboration with students ages 13+, staff, and families
Data-driven interventions
- Admin Analytics: Improvement-centered tools to motivate engagement and target resources
- Engagement Tools: Surface hard to reach families to target outreach and motivate engagement using best-practice strategies
Proven results for improving student outcomes
Decreased
absenteeism rates
Improved course
proficiency levels
Improved state
math test scores
A third-party validated quasi-experimental study shows TalkingPoints improved student academics and attendance overall, with outsized results for underserved students.
How TalkingPoints works
Industry-leading K-12 Translation
English
Spanish
Arabic
Vietnamese
Chinese (Simplified)
Chinese (Traditional)
Somali
French
Portuguese
Burmese
Swahili
Nepali
Russian
Korean
Hindi
Albanian
Khmer
Tagalog
All available languages
At TalkingPoints we are working hard to reduce the language barrier for non-English speaking families of diverse backgrounds. We are currently offering message translation in more than 150 languages on our platform.
Afrikaans
Albanian
Amharic
Arabic
Armenian
Assamese
Aymara
Azerbaijani
Bambara
Bashkir
Basque
Belarusian
Bengali
Bhojpuri
Bosnian
Bulgarian
Burmese
Cabo Verdean*
Cambodian (Khmer)
Catalan
Cebuano
Chinese (Simplified/Mandarin)
Chinese (Traditional/Cantonese)
Corsican
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dari
Divehi
Dogri
Dutch
English
Estonian
Ewe
Faroese
Farsi (Persian)
Fijian
Filipino (Tagalog)
Finnish
French
Frisian
Galician
Georgian
German
Greek
Guarani
Gujarati
Haitian Creole
Hausa
Hawaiian
Hebrew
Hindi
Hmong
Hungarian
Icelandic
Igbo
Ilocano
Indonesian
Inuinnaqtun
Inuktitut
Irish
Italian
Japanese
Javanese
Kannada
Karen*
Kazakh
Kinyarwanda
Konkani
Korean
Krio
Kurdish (Kurmanji/Northern)
Kurdish (Sorani/Central)
Kyrgyz
Lao
Latvian
Lingala
Lithuanian
Luganda
Luxembourgish
Macedonian
Maithili
Malagasy
Malay
Malayalam
Maltese
Maori
Marathi
Marshallese*
Meiteilon (Manipuri)
Mizo
Mongolian
Nepali
Norwegian
Nyanja (Chichewa)
Odia
Oromo
Pashto
Polish
Portuguese
Punjabi
Quechua
Queretaro Otomi
Romanian
Russian
Samoan
Scots Gaelic
Sepedi
Serbian
Sesotho
Shona
Sindhi
Sinhala
Slovak
Slovenian
Somali
Spanish
Sundanese
Swahili
Swedish
Tahitian
Tajik
Tamil
Tatar
Telugu
Thai
Tibetan
Tigrinya
Tongan
Tsonga
Turkish
Turkmen
Twi
Ukrainian
Upper Sorbian
Urdu
Uyghur
Uzbek
Vietnamese
Welsh
Xhosa
Yiddish
Yoruba
Yucatec Maya
Zulu
*We invest in human-translated templates and district messaging support for these languages where no machine translation exists.
TalkingPoints partners with districts across the country
Partner success stories
Family Engagement Drives Results for Marlborough Public Schools
At a Glance Marlborough Public Schools in Marlborough, MA, a district of nearly 5,000 students, is served by an early childhood center, four K-5 elementary schools, one 6-8 middle school, […]
How This Mounds View Public School Improved Attendance Reporting
At a glance: Mounds View Public Schools The 10th largest district in Minnesota, Mounds View Public Schools is located a few miles north of the downtown area of Minneapolis and […]
Aurora Public Schools is Breaking Barriers and Improving Student Outcomes
At a glance: Aurora Public Schools Located in Colorado’s third-most populated city, Aurora Public Schools’ 58 schools serve more than 38,000 students who hail from 130 countries and speak 160 […]
Pittsburgh Public Schools drives huge increases in family engagement
Pittsburgh Public Schools finds success using TalkingPoints to increase family engagement and improve communications between teachers and families.
Cincinnati Public Schools Uses TalkingPoints To Ensure An Inclusive Learning Environment
Ohio’s fastest-growing, large-city district ensures equitable access for all families In Cincinnati Public Schools, Ohio’s fastest-growing, large-city district, enrollment has grown more than 20 percent since 2012-2013. CPS is Greater […]
TalkingPoints improves course proficiency 7-12%; lowers absenteeism rates by 15% in large, urban district
TalkingPoints improved test scores, equating to an additional 7 months of learning in a large, urban district, with even greater impact for underserved students.
Translation Facilitates Communicate in Over 50 Home Languages; Oakland Unified School District, CA
Oakland Unified School District is one of the most diverse districts in California, with 50% of students speaking a language other than English…
TalkingPoints is "game-changer" in Elk Grove Unified School District, CA
Teachers in California’s fifth-largest district succeeded in engaging previously unreachable families to show up for meetings and conferences during the pandemic…
TalkingPoints increases event responses by 175%: Independence High School, Charlotte, NC
In just six months, administrators, teachers, and families sent over 120,000 messages. Principal David Legrand nearly tripled response to a food giveaway event…
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