Embedded Best Practices
Many teachers and school staff don’t have background or training in family engagement and they find connecting with families intimidating at times. To make learning and capacity-building easy and streamlined, TalkingPoints embeds research-based family engagement expertise and best practices within the platform. Through everyday activities, our platform helps scale best practices and build family and staff capacity for positive relationship-building and collaboration.
Message Mentor
- Save time and build staff capacity for best-practice communication with families
- Built-in guidance helps teachers and staff write best-practice messages with the click of a button
- Easily revise a message to apply best practices
- Craft a message from scratch by sharing a prompt and Message Mentor will write a best-practice message on the spot
- Fix spelling and grammar errors
- Staff remain in control of their messaging with families since they can use, edit, or discard Message Mentor suggestions
Attendance Improvement Tools
The TalkingPoints platform includes built-in tools to proactively influence attendance and reinforce trust-building between schools and families:
- Attendance Message Series
- Ready-to-send, positive, research-based messages
- Turnkey way to build family understanding about the importance of good attendance and how to support it at home
- Absence Reporting
- Remove language, time, and access barriers to make it easy for families to share absence reasons in their home language
- Text-based format helps schools analyze and proactively address root causes
Best Practice Tips
Save time and build staff family engagement “muscle” while making their job a little easier!
- Built-in capacity development tool surfaces weekly best practice tips for staff
- Research-backed reminders and suggestions help encourage appropriate levels of family engagement
- Best practice translated message templates let staff easily put the tip into practice
Messaging Templates
- Timing saving, pre-built library of pre-translated, research-based message templates
- Flexible, turnkey way to expand best practice messaging with families
- Template library covers key themes including attendance, well-being, and positive, asset-based messaging
- Staff can create, save, and share custom templates to guide consistent messaging within schools or the district
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TalkingPoints Foundations now includes, easy-to-use tools to help build strong, positive connections between schools and families:
- Quick Kudos - Celebrate student achievements instantly with just a few clicks!
- Positive Message Tracking - Easily track positive engagement to ensure every student receives recognition.
- Family Check-Ins - Stay connected throughout the year with pre-built messages aligned with key school calendar moments
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- Positive Message Tracking - Easily track positive engagement to ensure every student receives recognition.
- Family Check-Ins - Stay connected throughout the year with pre-built messages aligned with key school calendar moments
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