Schools in SPN database

Which schools do you support ? Do you support day care centers ?

We support Public and Private K-12 schools as well as Pre-K child care centers and family child care programs across the U.S.

If your school or day care center is not in our database please send us a note through the feedback link on our site. Please provide State, school district and school name if it is a public school. If it is a private and/or pre-K school/day care center please highlight this and include the State, City and school/center name.

We will extend support to schools in other countries in the near future. If you would like us to support your school in a different country, please feel free to send us feedback.

Please note that if you were invited to join our network and you are a parent with young children (not attending a school or child care center), you can still sign-up. You will be put into a "default” group and you can interact with other parents in similar circumstances. Users who have not completed a school profile are also put into this group. Users of the default group will not have access to school specific features or be able to view school groups content - but they will be able to form/join and interact with interest groups.

School Information Systems Support ?

Please help me understand the functionality of your site relative to services like Edline. Our high school is considering signing up with Edline, but there's a concern about the amount of teacher time involved in order to get the site as optimal as possible - with information such as class assignments, class notes, grades (on individual assignments), attendance, calendar information, etc. available online.

There are many services similar to Edline (they all charge $, they all require integration with school information systems and most importantly they put the burden of adoption on already stretched school personnel). Edline is geared towards higher grades and so it makes sense for your school to look into it. Success is almost always directly correlated to teacher adoption.

In our case, we have a site that emphasizes the social aspects of the parent/school community - its a social network for families where we use the school as a connection point (and is free like other consumer sites). We do provide "point" tools that help with collaboration, information dissemination within the school community - adoption of which is more parent driven (things like sign-up sheets). Our current focus is on younger grades. Over time we will look into additional functionality but we will always try and make sure that adoption can be helped & influenced by increased parent involvement. We consider Edline to be an extension of the school information systems - basically they take internal school data and put it on the web. In many cases school districts will directly serve these needs - through their own technology initiatives (internally developed or through a service provider). We expect to co-exist with services like Edline rather than be a direct replacement.