My new favorite tool is Remind.com! Wow, what a powerful communication tool for parents and students. Remind lets you send out text blasts to specific groups of people in a safe, secure, and private manner. For example, I have a group set up for my Business Club students. They enrolled in my group by sending a specified code to the assigned phone number from Remind (not my actual number). We are now connected. They don’t know my phone number and I don’t know theirs. Now I can send out reminders for when we have meetings, competitions, or just to wish them a happy vacation.
I’ve set up several groups this year that I will be using this tool with – Business Club students, Yearbook staff members, Online students, and seniors/parents of seniors for reminders about yearbook deadlines. I’m really excited about this!