About Us The development for SchoolDistrictOnline software began in 2001. Chief Software Architect, Eric Lendvai saw an enormous need for advanced enterprise resource planning technology and electronic communication within the school industry. With a strong background in software design and development, he set about working with teachers, principals, and parents to design the tools necessary for the rapid development of a complete Student Information System. A parent himself, it was inevitable that along the way, Eric would recognize the importance of communication between parents, teachers, districts, and staff; and the benefits of SchoolDistrictOnline for this purpose. This led to the development of Opt In. After six years of input from the education industry, using our same highly developed software platform, the SchoolDistrictOnline team completed the unprecedented design and development of an easy-to-use, Web Site building and maintenance system. With web site building software that is so easy to use, SchoolDistrictOnline, with SchoolDistrictOnline elite security, achieved a method to educate schools in the development and maintenance of their own communication web sites with the key advantages contained in our Home Opt In System.Why is Communication through Web Site Presence Important? Strategy for Better Parent Communication and School Involvement The SchoolDistrictOnline Solution Why Is Communication through Web Site Presence Important?
Across America, schools dedicate time, effort, and resources to the education of our children. However, the value of home involvement may not be underestimated when it comes to our children's education. The hectic requirements placed on teachers, their busy schedules, coupled with the busy life style of families, leave many parents feeling separated and outside of their children's important education process. Finding ways to involve the entire family makes the success of the student, the school, and the community so much greater. The key ingredient appears to be better “communication”. With over 80% of families now having access to computers we answer the challenge to engage families. We bring them into the school community using School and District Web Sites and electronic communication, specifically developed for this purpose.
The NEA (National Education Association) says: “When parents are involved in their children's education, kids do better in school”.
Study after study shows researchers discovering how important it is for parents to be actively involved in their child's education.
- When schools and families work together to support learning, everyone benefits.
- Students do better in school and in life.
- Parents become empowered.
- Teacher morale improves.
- Schools get better and communities grow stronger.
Strategy for Better Parent Communication and School Involvement
Economic and social pressures have significantly impacted our schools. Busy home schedules affect time and availability of parents. Many schools now have outside companies building web sites to make school information available on line. Some schools are beginning to realize that these web sites have become an important improvement in a way for schools to present information. However, communication still remains the key ingredient that suffers. Emphasis must be placed on a schools ability to use a web site as a total communication tool for better family involvement. SchoolDistrictOnline allows schools to easily design and build their own web sites for school communication in the home. SchoolDistrictOnline allows the school to manage their own web site. SchoolDistrictOnline provides SDOLelite security to every web site built. We solve the problem by allowing open and complete communication between school, teachers and parents, thus creating an entire electronic community. SchoolDistrictOnline makes the difference in student development by simply involving the family for total support.
When parents are involved in their children's education at home, they do better in school. And, when parents are involved in school, children go farther in school – and the schools they go to are better. Numerous studies have shown that a home environment that encourages learning is more important to student achievement than income, education level, or cultural background. When children and parents talk regularly about school, children perform better academically. Three kinds of parental involvement at home have been shown to be consistently associated with higher student achievement:
- Actively organizing and monitoring a child's time
- Helping with homework, and discussing school matters.
- Positive results of parental involvement include improved student achievement, reduced absenteeism, improved behavior, and restored confidence among parents in their children's schooling.
The SchoolDistrictOnline Solution
SchoolDistrictOnline web building software with SDOL elite security was developed to provide a communication solution to school families. SchoolDistrictOnline teaches schools to achieve the benefits of family involvement. Developed in schools with the help of teachers, parents, and students, SchoolDistrictOnline is the most comprehensive and teacher friendly school web building and electronic Opt In communication system software ever developed. Specifically designed to meet the needs of teachers and school principals, with little or no background in computer or web design, it is tailored specifically for the education industry. Our software is used to build school web sites so complete as to empower families and schools to work together to enhance the student, the school, and the community. SchoolDistrictOnline allows the school, the teacher, and the staff to organize necessary information in an easy-to-use, easy-to-understand, easy-to-navigate fashion. Parents become a positive part of the daily learning process. SchoolDistrictOnline is so easy that it is maintained through the school, not by outside companies or specially hired school IT staff. SchoolDistrictOnline saves every school many thousands of dollars using their own maintainable web site design, construction and maintenance. Now, that's easy.
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