Our school system uses Honeywell Instant Alert for district and building communication. One issue we run into however is the updating of phone numbers and other contact information this often and ever changing. My Building uses other tools such as our website, Principal’s Pad (Blog), our Facebook Group, our Twitter Account, an Email list, …. all of which rely on the user, our families, to connect or update their information. Recently I ran across a website called Remind101. This site allows the ability for families to sign up and provide their contact info (email and/or cell phone number) to receive updates from our school. We will roll this out over Christmas vacation. We’ll still continue some of our other communication tools, but the piece I appreciate is the text message. I can send a message from the site to all of our classes or certain classes. Short, quick, to the point bursts of information.