Remind: School Communication

Remind exists because school communication is genuinely hard to do well. Teachers need to reach thirty families, families need to reach a teacher, and the obvious solutions all fail in some way: personal phone numbers should not be handed out in either direction, email is ignored, and a note in a bag arrives three days late or not at all. Remind provides a channel that works in real time on any device while keeping personal contact information private on both sides. A teacher can message a whole class about tomorrow's trip without any parent learning their mobile number, and a parent can ask a question without hunting for an office phone number during working hours. Translation into more than ninety languages is the feature that changes lives rather than schedules. In a school where families speak a dozen languages at home, a message that arrives in the language a parent actually reads is the difference between involvement and exclusion, and it happens automatically rather than requiring anyone to ask. Files, photos and content from other sites can be shared in the same messages, which covers permission slips, timetables, reading lists and photographs from a school event. Millions of educators, students and parents use it, and it works on phones, tablets and computers alike.