Communication with Parents - Remind 101

Remind 101 is AMAZING. It's a cool website (and free app) that allows you to send parents text messages (whole-class message) without the parents ever seeing your phone number! You cannot send individual text messages (one message to one parent), but you can send a message to everyone who signed up. A few ways to use this would be 1) To remind parents of upcoming events, 2) To remind parents that homework is due, or 3) To inform parents of inclement weather (just in case there is a parent who is not watching the news when your school lets our early like mine did last year.) There are probably a lot more good ideas...

The website is https://www.remind101.com/ and is completely free. I signed up for myself and have the directions saved to my iPad. I will send the instructions home at the beginning of the school year and encourage the parents to sign up!