Thayer School Board Selects Alert Now For District Notification System

About AlertNow

In today's climate, school administrators are under mounting pressure to increase attendance, improve community relations and ensure campus safety, and outdated communication methods--such as phone trees and "auto dialers" that require staff resources and large blocks of time to deliver messages--are no longer capable of satisfying these demands.

AlertNow is an elite, industry-leading rapid communication service, designed specifically for the K-12 community, that addresses all of these needs. Saf-T-Net (STN), founder of AlertNow, is partnered with more than 30,000 school administrators in all 50 states throughout the nation and provides cost-effective, reliable, robust and user-friendly communication solution for educators. AlertNow's best-of-class technology delivers voice, e-mail and emergency SMS messages at a rate of thousands per minute to keep parents informed on emergency and non-emergency messages from school administrators.

Emergency Usage

AlertNow is a critical component to every crisis plan, ensuring vital information is communicated accurately and immediately, notifying parents and staff within minutes, in the event of a lockdown, relocation, evacuation or other emergency situation.

Emergency calls are sent through a dedicated emergency-only network to ensure that there are no conflicts with other types of communications, displaying a unique "411" caller ID--delivering the right message to the right people at the right time.

Non-emergency Usage

Though many schools pursue a rapid notification system primarily for emergency usage, they often begin utilizing the service for use in non-emergency and routine messaging to parents. AlertNow helps schools build stronger relationshipswith the community every day by enhancing parental involvement, raising student attendance, bridging multi-lingual communication barriers and obtaining valuable feedback with interactive polling and survey tools.

Parental Involvement

Schools use AlertNow to increase parental involvement by making parents aware of events such as the following:
Upcoming tests, report card distribution and other academic activities.

Operational events including delayed bus drop-offs or pickups, unexpected changes to field trip arrivals or departures and weather-related closings.