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Scaled Family Engagement

Building positive, trust-based partnerships with every family is essential to driving student outcomes—and TalkingPoints enables this at scale through a unified, districtwide communication platform that ensures every teacher, staff member, and administrator can easily reach, communicate with, and engage all families in 150+ languages.

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User Friendly & Simple for Families

  • For families, getting started is as simple as texting - no wifi, smartphone or computer needed
  • Families are opted in to text messaging automatically, ensuring maximum reach
  • Mobile app and online sign-in provides expanded features for families

    • Easy & Flexible for Teachers and Staff

  • Intuitive, easy-to-use platform
    • Mobile and online sign-in
    • Useful for teachers, administrators, and all staff including nurses, psychologists, bus drivers, coaches, counselors, and more!
  • Instant two-way translations in 150+ languages
  • Flexible messaging options to personalize and deepen engagement
    • Two-way translated text or in-app messages
    • Video messages with translated captions
    • Translated Polls/Surveys
    • Attach documents and images
  • Gather valuable insight and feedback from families with easy-to-use polls or surveys with real-time analytics
  • Flexible roles, permissions and groups




    • Time-saving Tools for Staff

  • Message scheduling
  • Pre-built, pre-translated template galleries
  • Set office hours with automated responses
  • Create, save, and share custom templates
  • Family check-ins help teachers stay connected year-round with pre-built messages aligned with key school calendar moments
  • Staff announcements allows administrators to easily message groups of staff, families and students, so the right people, get the right information




    • Classroom Event Management

  • Simplify scheduling with easy event creation and family sign-ups—great for conferences, family nights, and more
  • Syncs directly with your personal school calendar to keep everything in one place



    • Robust Support for Families

  • Best-in-class translation supported by human and custom machine translation specially trained and tuned for K-12 education
  • Ed101 tool demystifies educational terms with one click
  • Help Me Understand features offer additional context to explain the message’s meaning with recommended next steps
  • Text-to-speech and Speech-to-text capabilities make messaging and engagement more accessible for families

    • Student Messaging

  • Bring students ages 13+ into conversations
  • Gain valuable insights and support student agency in their own learning
  • Secure and streamlined collaboration via text, mobile app, or online sign-in
  • Easily engage with family contacts only, students only, or both 
  • Create student groupings for athletics and extracurriculars to easily share information with students and families

    • Document Translation Package

  • Translate the everyday “backpack” documents schools and teachers share with families - newsletters, flyers, invitations, and more!
  • Simple one-click option to translate document attachments as part of the message-sending experience
  • Free up district language and translation resources to support legal and in-person or specialized interpretation needs 
  • Families simply click on the message link to access the document attachment in their home language

    • Unified Communication for Schools & District

    When you need to reach every family with an important message, TalkingPoints helps you ensure that messages are accessible and clear, whether by automated call, text, app, email, web, and social media.

    Built for full accessibility with automatic translation across languages, formats, and devices so every family receives information they can understand and act on.

    Emergency Alerts (for schools & districts)

    • One-click Emergency Alerts reach all families and staff across every channel, ensuring critical messages are never missed

    Broadcast Notifications (for districts)

    • Support timely, districtwide updates for non-emergency communication, promoting transparency and unified outreach

    Elevate Your Reputation & Brand

    • Humanize your outreach using text messaging, personalize with translated video or audio messages, or include optional email
    • Message templates and shared libraries keep communication aligned and consistent from district to school to classroom, strengthening how families and staff see your district