SchoolStatus Acquires Email Newsletter Company Smore and Expands K–12 Products
- By Kate Lucariello
- 12/13/22
Education
communications, analytics, and workflow platform company SchoolStatus
has acquired email newsletter company Smore
in its entirety. The acquisition will expand SchoolStatus’s
offerings to K–12 institutions, with Smore’s email newsletter
communications designed to integrate easily with SchoolStatus’s
existing products, or be used separately.
Although
the acquisition includes Smore's operations, technology, and team of
Tel Aviv and US-based employees, Smore will operate independently
under its own brand, and its current users will continue to have
access to the products they use, SchoolStatus said. SchoolStatus’s
platform includes a student information system, attendance programs,
a learning management system, state and local assessments,
benchmarks, communication metrics, and teacher professional
development tools. The addition of Smore’s email newsletter
products will bring a suite of easy templates for school
administrators, teachers, and other personnel to use to communicate
with parents.
"Email
newsletters are the most prevalent vehicle used by educators and
communication directors to share class, school, and district
information with members of their school's community,” said Russ
Davis, founder and CEO of SchoolStatus. “To make newsletters easy
and enjoyable to create means that communication will take place more
often and stakeholders will be more informed. That’s a win-win.”
SchoolStatus
is a fully-integrated data analytics and communications platform
designed to drive better student outcomes through comprehensive data
and parent engagement. Visit
its “How It Works” page to learn more.
Smore
is used by over 1 million educators in 10,000 schools and districts
in the United States, including over 70% of the school districts in
North America. View
some examples of its newsletter templates on this page.
About the Author
Kate Lucariello is a former newspaper editor, EAST Lab high school teacher and college English teacher.