School Signals Software App

Unified School Communication —Built for Real Participation.

A unified platform for school communication, events, and parent participation—keeping your entire school community aligned and engaged.

Unify School Communication.

Build Real Participation.

Bring your school community to a unified platform for messaging, events, athletics and parent participation. Get the needed oversight on communication.

School Signals

One Platform for School Communicators

School Signals brings everyday school communication, operations, and family engagement into one organized system. School Signals is the right fit for schools that want to bring communication, classrooms, parent engagement, and volunteering into one unified system instead of managing multiple disconnected tools.

District & School-Wide News

School leaders post district-level and school-wide news and updates effortlessly in School Signals. The updates are consolidated in School Feed and translated into parents' home languages. Moderated two-way communication keeps the community engaged and safe.

Notifications

Email, Text, App Push, and Voice Notifications

A key trust-building communication principle is to reach parents the way they want to be reached. Parents can set their notifications to instant or daily; the latter controls the incoming message volume. Critical alerts reach everyone.

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Language Translated Teacher-Parent Private Messaging

For private matters and to reach out in a positive way, teachers and parents exchange private messages. School leaders have access to the messages to keep a record of them. Parents connect on school-related topics to support each other.

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Text-to-Speech Multilingual Voice Messages

Voice messages deliver timely updates. Thanks to the Text-to-Speech (TTS) technology, voice message sending does not require any recordings, and messages are automatically translated and delivered in parents' home languages in real time.

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Teachers' 360° Communication Hubs

School Signals provides educators with an organized Classroom space where teachers share class news and information for parents. Parent volunteers can be granted special roles to help, such as organizing class volunteer sign-ups and event listings. Posted and well-organized resources support families.

Clubs and Programs

Unified Athletics & Clubs Communication

Athletics clubs communication is too often walled off from regular school communication. Unified athletics communication means that instructors, coaches and parents all share the same familiar platform their school is already using. Practice times, discussion threads, pictures, and team spirit are all shared in one platform, keeping the teams connected.

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School Events RSVP and Engagement

A unified School Calendar and Event RSVP system keeps school activities organized and easy for families to follow. Parents can see upcoming events, respond to invitations, and stay informed from one central place.

School Directory

School Directory

Understanding who is who and how members relate to one another is beyond important. The School Directory allows parents to share who their family members in the network are, what grades their children attend, what hobbies and interests the parent has, and even share family pictures.

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Contextual Photo Galleries

Pictures tell your school's story. Create photo galleries and host them all in one place plus contextually within a classroom party, back-to-school event, SEL night, and a sports game.

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One Platform for All Volunteering

Parent engagement increases when they can see and sign up for school-wide opportunities, classroom volunteering, and PTA/PTO-run volunteer initiatives are all in one, unified platform.

Documents

Pages for More Information

Pages are for creating clear reference pages for topics such as volunteering, parent-teacher conferences, school programs, policies, and family resources. Teachers and staff can link directly to Pages when explaining programs, expectations, or procedures.

Documents

Online Forms & Documents Management

Collect parent information, permissions, and requests with online forms. Families complete forms easily from their phone, and submissions stay organized with each parent account. Share important documents so families always know where to find them.

School Signals is K12 EdTech Communication Company

We will show you how School Signals works, and answer your questions. Product discovery calls take 15 to 30 minutes.

School Communication Mobile App for On-the-Go

🩷 New Schools — Welcome to School Signals

Brookings Harbor-Christian School

Brookings Harbor Christian School

Brookings Harbor Christian School in Brookings, OR, uses School Signals to let parents know about school-wide news, classroom updates, learning and homework reminders from teachers, parent-teacher messaging, school events, and internal staff communication. We are grateful for their trust in School Signals.

Our Lady of the Sacred Heart

Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Academy

Based in Rockford, IL, Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Academy uses School Signals to coordinate after-school basketball teams, keep the community updated on events, and showcase hundreds of pictures in organized photo galleries. We are excited to support the academy's growing communication on the platform.

Willie Brown Middle School PTSO

Willie Brown Middle School PTSO

Based in San Francisco, CA, Willie Brown Middle School PTSO shows what parent-driven initiatives really mean. The PTSO has impressively invited the 500+ parent community to use the platform, where actionable topics range from the recent teacher strikes, track practices, fundraisers, upcoming school events, and volunteering. Parents quickly jump to answer each other's questions, keeping the community supported.

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Questions School Leaders Often Ask

How do you define unified school communication?

Unified school communication means that messages, forms, events, volunteering, documents, and important district, school-wide, classroom and after-school club updates are created, shared, and responded to within a single system—so families can engage two-way, and school leaders maintain consistent visibility across the school(s).

School Signals brings all engagement features to a singular platform reducing scattered information and making it easier for school communities to stay aligned.

Can my school district try out School Signals with one school first?

Yes, you can pilot School Signals in one of your schools to measure the results. Once School Signals is successfully implemented at one school, rolling it out to the remaining schools is much smoother, as your team will already understand how to support adoption and implementation.

How does School Signals support ESSA and Title I family engagement work?

School Signals is built to help schools carry out day-to-day family communication and engagement practices commonly expected under Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) and Title I.

Schools use School Signals to unify school-wide communication, collect feedback through forms, coordinate participation such as events and volunteering, and manage parent-teacher conferences with reminders and pre-conference forms.

School Signals can support School Improvement Plans (SIP) or Title I family engagement plan implementation by making it easier to consistently execute communication strategies, engagement efforts, and document participation and input. Districts determine their own compliance approach and documentation requirements.

Can using School Signals reduce the number of tools our school uses today?

Yes. School Signals can replace multiple disconnected tools with one unified platform and app.

  • Private messaging chat apps such as WhatsApp or GroupMe
  • Teacher-parent messaging apps such as Remind
  • Parent-teacher conference scheduling tools such as PTC Wizard
  • Translation apps or AI tools used to translate communication
  • Email blast systems
  • Athletics communication apps such as BAND or TeamSnap
  • Volunteer sign-up systems such as SignUpGenius
  • Online form tools such as Google Forms
  • Robocall / automated call software
  • Internal communication systems

How quickly can our school get started?

After subscribing, we recommend taking a few weeks to set up your school’s content, configure the platform, and become familiar with the system so your rollout is intentional and organized.

Our team provides training and answers your questions throughout the onboarding process.

Can we try School Signals before committing?

Yes. We recommend starting with a product discovery demo. After the demo, we can set up a trial school so your team can explore the platform and understand how it would work for your communication needs.

Who is behind School Signals?

School Signals was created by the team behind Nabr Network, a residential community communication platform used by millions of residents across thousands of communities.

The same founding team is now focused on building the next generation of school and district communication software for K–12 education.

We will show you how School Signals works, and answer your questions. Product discovery calls take 15 to 30 minutes.