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    K-12 Website Evaluation Guide

    Use this evaluation guide as a tool to help you select the website partner that is best for your district. You will discover seven key considerations to keep in mind, along with questions that are critical to ask potential partners when making your decision.

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    What Parents Want, All in One Place, Everywhere They Go

    Parents are too busy to seek out information across multiple platforms using numerous passwords. It isn’t convenient or realistic when they’re always on the go. Consolidating all the important information into one mobile app with one login will keep them involved, informed, and engaged.

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    Informed Parents Help Students Succeed

    Parents want to be informed about every part of their child’s academic experience. To help students be successful, parents need critical data like assignments, grades, and attendance. Providing that valuable data from your SIS and gradebooks, and adding it to your communication channels, will help you strengthen student support and parent engagement.

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    Optimize & Target Your District Outreach

    Blackboard Mass Notifications allows you to reach your stakeholders across all your communication channels simultaneously. This kind of simplified messaging is critical for emergencies and necessary for everyday updates.

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    Put Your Website to the Test With the Website Grader

    Use our free grading tool to see how well your website is optimized for all users, if it meets modern technology standards, and how well it performs as a marketing tool.

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    The K-12 Communications Leader’s Guide to Social Media Success

    Read this ebook written by K-12 communication leaders to learn how build a case for social media, communicate across the different social platforms, gain adoption and measure success.

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    Answering the Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How of Student and Teacher Communication

    When did the pandemic alter Student-Teacher communications? Who agrees students communicate more because of technology in the classroom? Where do students prefer to communicate. And the big question...Why?

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    How 90 Days of School Closures Strengthened the Bonds of Communication

    Read this report to discover the data on how student and teacher communication changed during the 90 days of remote learning during spring 2020.

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    Reflecting the Pulse of the School District

    Within our American system of education, a trust-based relationship between parents and their child's school is absolutely essential. Parents rely upon that relationship every day when they send their child to school with a hopeful aspiration that what happens during the school day will result in their child being well-prepared for further college or career success.

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    How to Communicate with Millennial, Gen X and Boomer Parents

    Written in partnership with Project Tomorrow, this report details how districts and schools should consider differentiating their communications based on generational preferences.

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    How a Well-Designed Website Can Increase Engagement

    Do you know all the components that go into creating great website design? Colors, text, accessibility, functionatlity, and interactivity are just the start. Watch this video to learn the core principals for designing an engaging K-12 website.

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    The Path to Personalization - Whitepaper

    Like most technology companies, we at Blackboard track what’s taking place in other industries. We do so both to inform our own innovation, and also to help us anticipate learner, educator and administrator expectations. While in its early stages, the path to personalization in EdTech will be informed, in many ways, by the journey other industries have taken. Let’s take a look at a few examples.

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    New era of communication: Data points to decline in phone call effectiveness

    When did people suddenly stop answering phone calls and start dodging voicemails? This change of communication preference certainly aligns with the rise of the internet and mobile devices. Download this report to see the important data that points to a new era of communication.

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    Tip sheet: How to Connect Parents and Teachers in the New Normal

    Read this tip sheet to discover six strategies to consider when forming your teacher and parent communications plan.

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    Guide to Evaluate a Two-Way Teacher and Parent Communication Tool

    The closer communication gets to the classroom, the more relevant it is to a parent. Grades, behavior updates, upcoming assignments, and student successes are extremely important to parents because they directly relate to their child. Sharing this kind of information should be done in a collaborate and safe environment. Use this guide when selecting a vendor for a two-way communication tool for your teachers and parents. Conversations between these two stakeholders is crucial to ensuring the success of your students.

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    The K-12 Federal COVID-19 Relief Packages Allocation Worksheet

    Between March 2020 and March 2021, the United States federal government passed three relief packages that included more than $190 billion of funding for K-12 education. Use this worksheet to identify the challenges your district is facing and how they align with solutions and allowable uses of funding.

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