Anaheim (Calif.) Union High School District keeps connected to parents and the community.

And the winner of the TeleParent "Best Practice" Contest is...

Jennifer Schwarz, McCluer High School, Ferguson-Florissant School District

Thank you to all who participated in our "Best Practice" Contest during Teacher Appreciation Week

In well-to-do districts, high-powered families can bolster schools or be too demanding. Schools flush with students' parents showing up and helping out have long been the envy of those where classrooms echo on back-to-school night. But in recent years, incidents reported in the news media have dabbed shadows on that glowing picture of parent involvement, raising issues about whether demanding adults have made teachers' jobs harder and compromised learning...

Notification tools can do more than alert the school community to an emergency. New systems are cultivating parental involvement by sending home daily reports on students' behavior, attendance, and performance...

A 17 year old male is being held in Siskiyou County Juvenile Hall after allegedly making criminal threats that led to a two hour lockdown at Mount Shasta High School Friday morning...

NetSupport announced the beta launch of NetSupport Notify, a mass-notification desktop alert system for schools and districts. The new product leverages NetSupport's desktop management technology to deliver important messages and emergency alerts across a local or wide-area network to all Windows and Macintosh computers instantly. A NetSupport representative called the solution a "21st-century" replacement to the traditional PA system...

In a few weeks, IISD teachers and administrators will begin using the TeleParent notification system to more effectively communicate with parents...

Duran North Junior High School history teacher Roy Bliss said it normally took the entire school year to contact the parents of 150 students...

Ten districts in California have signed on with TeleParent and plan to have the parental notification system up and running by the start of the school year. The deployment impacts schools representing about 200,000 students, including a large number of multi-lingual students...

True to his word, Banning Unified School District interim Superintendent Ron Franklin made a visit to the Susan B. Coombs middle school recently. After checking on some plumbing problems at New Horizon, Franklin visited with Coombs principal Mark Baldwin...

Stumbling across TeleParent.net just sent a chill up my spine...

How to break down barriers for ELL families...

Introducing a new technology tool often has unexpected results. At Whittier Union High School District south of Los Angeles, teachers and parents are having more face to face interactions after the district introduced an automated system for contacting parents about student behavior...

In a move to reflect its commitment to enhancing the collaborative communication efforts between teachers and parents, the Westminster School District has equipped three middle schools with the automated telephone and Internet-based parental notification system developed by TeleParent ™ Educational Systems...

English teacher Brandy Duncan announced this year that she would not accept late work.

That by itself wouldn't be noteworthy, except that no one has even tried to turn in anything late since she announced the policy. Not that her students deserve all the credit. Each night before a big assignment is due, the Huber Heights, Ohio, high school instructor makes sure all her students and their parents get reminder phone calls...

Attention students: It is getting harder and harder to escape not doing your homework, not going to class and getting into trouble at school...

An increasing number of Oceanside Unified District school teachers have found a way to call hundreds of parents every night without having to even pick up a phone...

A telephone- and Internet-based system that aims to open lines of communication between educators and parents is coming to Redwood High School...

Teacher Janene Marsella speaks English, and she needs to talk to people who don't.

The Cooper Middle School teacher had to get creative to communicate with the non-English-speaking parents of her students. She sometimes asked bilingual school employees to pass along messages...

Sonora High School is the first school in La Habra to subscribe to TeleParent...

Gerri St. John keeps tabs on her three Seguin High School students - technological tabs...