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
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