How ParentSquare Simplifies & Improves Parent-Teacher Communications: Ed Tech Chat from ISTE Live 2022

  • By Kristal Kuykendall
  • 06/30/22

What does ParentSquare do for schools and students, exactly? During THE Journal's ed tech chat with Dr. Chad Stevens, chief strategy officer at ParentSquare, at ISTELive 2022 this week, we learned that ParentSquare turns the old one-way road of hit-or-miss parent-teacher communications into a two-way superhighway that helps lighten educators' burdens and makes it easier to connect with and engage students' families — ultimately driving better learning outcomes.

Watch the 3-minute interview for Stevens' introduction of the platform, or learn more at ParentSquare.com.

About the Author

Kristal Kuykendall is editor, 1105 Media Education Group. She can be reached at [email protected].


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