Remind is a great tool to use to communicate with parents. There is a free app for it, but you do not need to have it to receive or send messages. I use Remind to communicate with my parents weekly. If parents do not have the app, they will be receiving the message as a text message straight to their phone. The beauty about this program is that even though they are receiving it in this manner, it is not going to come from your personal phone number! This resource is a very quick and efficient way to send reminders or messages to parents. For example, we earned our class reward for tomorrow, Wednesday, March 14, and the students chose to have stuffed animal day. Instead of sending out an email, I sent a quick message to the parents reminding them of our special day tomorrow. If needed, I can also send messages to individual people. This way if I do not need to contact the whole class, I can select one or a few recipients and contact them directly. However, there can be some setbacks using this tools. The downfall to using this Remind is the immediate feedback. Since it is quick, some parents want your feedback right away and then might get frustrated if you haven't gotten back to them in a timely manner (not that we are busy or anything with everything teachers need to take care of throughout the day). I would highly recommend this resource to others!
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