M5 SchoolStatus Howl Like a Wolf
Our Students are the Gifts of the Season December/Month5!
The SchoolStatus Howl Like A Wolf Recognition Program promotes quality family communications by rewarding our top communicators each month. Since both teachers and school staff use SchoolStatus, all are eligible to be recognized.
This month, we made 89,488 calls and texts using SchoolStatus.
Celebrating Our Champion Callers
Celebrating Our Terrific Texters
The Howl Like a Wolf ALLSTARS!
The following faculty/staff members have exceeded the monthly communications standard for 3 or more months of our 9 reporting periods. They possess AWESOMENESS in family communications and SET THE BAR HIGH!
Ms. Courtney Callaway, First Grade Teacher at Elm Street Elementary
Dr. Christy Epps, Principal at PLC/RTA/VLA
Ms. Lisa Nichols, Math Teacher at Rome Middle School
Ms. Gabriela Rivera Roden, Attendance Clerk at Rome High School
Congrats to all of our fabulous winners and to all of you for making those calls and texts through SchoolStatus.
Thanks to Our Super Sponsors
Keeping Parent Contact Information Up-to-Date
Sometimes, students' living arrangements change, or their phone numbers change. Here are some tips to keep lines of communication open!
Communicate with your parents so they know the importance of it. You may want to explain to a parent that there is significant data to indicate that having a strong teacher-family relationship improves student outcomes, or you may simply want to say, "Call or text me anytime! Your family is important to me!"
Knowing the contact's relationship to the child is as important as having the correct phone number. Find out who the right contact is for your communications. Who transports the child? Who helps with homework? If it's the grandmother or a neighbor, you may want to include them as a Preferred Contact (with parent permission), so that they can receive Broadcasts.
If a parent's number is wrong in SchoolStatus, you can mark it with a red flag on the student card and type in the new number or give a reason the change is needed. This will help your front office staff to assist in updating the phone number. Also, please be sure to alert the front office when you red flag a contact. Once the front office makes the change, it should appear after our overnight sync. Remember that we only import contact information from PowerSchool.
If a parent contact replies STOP to your text or Broadcast, this will immediately trigger a message to them (from us) asking them to confirm that they want to cut off communication with that teacher. This does not cut them off from other educators who may contact them. If they send STOP in error, they can type in RESUME to open the line of communication again. If they are unable to reply, perhaps because they deleted the message thread, they can request in writing for us to activate the RESUME on their behalf.
Manage Preferred Contacts by using the yellow star in your student's contacts list.
Set the Preferred Language for your ELL parents so that you can build a relationship with them. Messages sent using SchoolStatus can be translated manually, also.