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What It Means to be a Connected K–12 School
- A connected K–12 school is one that functions at its optimal level in every area of school. Achieving it is challenging, however, in order to make it work, there are certain action items schools should follow. These include avoiding having software silos, ensuring that software solutions play well with others, working towards a single source of truth, evaluating cross-functional process flow, and considering both flexibility and structure. Connected schools are ones where processes flow naturally, and data flows smoothly between software systems while empowering the entire school community with valuable communication tools, accurate information, and a unified experience.
- The article highlights how schools can avoid software silos by selecting integrated software solutions that connect all critical enrollment, student information, tuition, and financial aid solutions to ensure that data can flow seamlessly between systems.
- To ensure software plays well with others, the article suggests that schools should find service providers whose software offerings are supported by a great partner network for complex items like lunch ordering, summer camps, visitor management, and payroll.
- Schools should work towards having a centralized location for all communication with parents and a single source of truth for families. Links, documents, events, news, videos, classes, teams, groups, grades, among others, should be in one centralized location.
- Cross-functional process flow should also be evaluated to ensure that the best workflow of processes is between different departments and grades, focusing on the best outcome for the greater good, even if it means compromising a good process in one area for a better approach benefiting multiple departments.
- Finally, the article recommends that schools carefully consider both flexibility and structure. A good balance between the two should exist to make processes or software to be adopted easily and quickly. Too much flexibility may lead to errors, while excessive customizability may make it difficult to evaluate, understand, and maintain software systems.
- Ultimately, connected schools contribute to an empowered community that enjoys valuable communication tools, accurate information, and a unified experience.
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