PowerSchool Completes Acquisition of Kinvolved​

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I am a PowerSchool customer

Q: What was announced?
We are very excited to announce that PowerSchool has completed the acquisition of Kinvolved, a leading provider of K-12 communications, attendance, and engagement solutions, expanding K-12 platform to provide critical messaging and communication solution to improve engagement and student outcomes. 

Q: Who is Kinvolved?
Kinvolved is a leading provider of K-12 communications, attendance, and engagement solutions supporting over 250,000 students and used within three of the top four school districts in the U.S. Through its KiNVO software suite, Kinvolved helps school systems build positive, two-way relationships between school and home via automated, translated text-messaging-based nudges, and provides attendance and engagement data to school and district administrators to inform real-time interventions.

Q: Why did PowerSchool acquire Kinvolved?
Adding Kinvolved’s leading communication engine to PowerSchool’s Unified Operations solution will enable schools and districts to strengthen and simplify overall communications and notifications between school and home to increase engagement and help reduce absenteeism.

Q: How will this acquisition help K-12 schools and districts?
Research from the National Education Association shows how crucial parents and families are to the education and growth of students, as support from the home directly increases student attendance and academic outcomes.

Ongoing COVID-related disruptions have also increased the importance of schools being able to communicate time-sensitive updates to parents and families no matter where they are or the language they speak. The return to in-person and hybrid instruction saw a dramatic increase in chronic absenteeism, defined as missing 10 percent or more of the time, with some districts reaching rates as high as 40%. Student absences also have a direct and negative impact on available budget for schools and districts, and recently accounted for $10.7 billion in lost annual funding.

The combination of PowerSchool and Kinvolved will enable schools and districts to strengthen and simplify overall communications and notifications between school and home to increase engagement and help reduce absenteeism.

Q: What does this mean for PowerSchool’s and Kinvolved’s products and customers?
The combination of PowerSchool and Kinvolved will allow schools and districts to centralize communication tools and attendance data with leading teaching and learning solutions to help address chronic absenteeism and strengthen engagement between home and school. Adding Kinvolved to existing PowerSchool solutions benefits educators, students, and their families in multiple ways:

• Deliver targeted mass communications: Recent disruptions to teaching and learning have made timely updates to families more important than ever. Kinvolved helps expedite the delivery of time-sensitive school, district, and class communications via text message, email, and voice call.
• Personalize 2-way communications: Increasing collaboration between schools and homes is a priority for most schools and districts. With Kinvolved, educators can support equity and increase accessibility for all parents with individualized two-way communications that can instantly be translated into more than 80 languages.

• Raise attendance: Studies show that increased family engagement is directly correlated to improved attendance and student outcomes. Kinvolved’s digital attendance/engagement postcards provide administrators with a simplified approach to improving attendance with built-in reporting for deliverability and open rates that support a more efficient and data-driven approach to managing attendance-based interventions.
• Further integration with PowerSchool: As a partner since 2019, Kinvolved already integrates with PowerSchool’s industry-leading student information system (SIS). Our users can also expect additional embedded and seamless integrations with PowerSchool SIS, Schoology Learning, and other products.

Q: How does Kinvolved currently integrate with PowerSchool’s solutions?
As a partner since 2019, Kinvolved already integrates with PowerSchool’s industry-leading student information system (SIS). Our users can also expect additional embedded and seamless integrations with PowerSchool SIS, Schoology Learning, and other products.

Q: What is the combined PowerSchool and Kinvolved product roadmap?
While additional details will be made available soon, please know that customers can expect further integration between Kinvolved and PowerSchool. Users can also expect additional embedded and seamless integrations with PowerSchool SIS, Schoology Learning, and other products.

I am a Kinvolved customer

Q: What was announced?
We are very excited to announce that PowerSchool, a leading provider of cloud-based software for K-12 education in North America, has completed the acquisition of Kinvolved, expanding our K-12 platform to provide critical messaging and communication solution to improve engagement and student outcomes.

Q: Who is PowerSchool? 
Founded over 20 years ago, PowerSchool is proud to be a leading provider of cloud-based software for K-12 education in North America. PowerSchool connects students, teachers, administrators, and parents, with the shared goal of improving student outcomes. From the office to the classroom to the home, it helps schools and districts efficiently manage state reporting and related compliance, special education, finance, human resources, talent, registration, attendance, funding, learning, instruction, grading, assessments and analytics in one unified platform. PowerSchool supports over 45 million students globally and more than 13,000 customers, including over 90 of the top 100 districts by student enrollment in the United States, and sells solutions in over 90 countries.

PowerSchool’s K-12 solutions include:

• Unified Classroom^®: Integrated classroom tools that simplify teaching and learning by connecting Learning Management (Schoology Learning), Assessment (Performance Matters), Behavior Support for social-emotional needs, and Special Programs information all in one place.
• Student Information Systems: Scalable and modern platforms that cover all operational needs including scheduling, attendance, compliance, and faculty management.
• Enrollment: Flexible platform that meets a wide variety of admission, choice, enrollment and registration requirements regardless of size or type of school or district.
• Unified Operations: Streamlined solutions focused on financial and human resources management to drive operational efficiency.
• Unified Talent: Comprehensive solutions to attract, hire, develop and retain high-quality educators and staff for districts and schools.
• Unified Insights: Complete analytics platform that brings together a school district’s disparate data sets into a single set of dashboards to track, manage, and monitor all aspects of student, school and administrative data and metrics.

• Unified Operations: Tools to increase engagement thanks to parent/student portals as well as intuitive mobile apps for iOS and Android.
• Unified Classroom: Personalized solutions that provide educators, students, and parents with tools to help students reach their future goals while promoting college, career, and life readiness.

Q: Why did PowerSchool acquire Kinvolved?
Adding Kinvolved’s leading communication engine to PowerSchool’s Unified Operations solution family will enable schools and districts to strengthen and simplify overall communications and notifications between school and home to increase engagement and help reduce absenteeism.

Q: Will I need to add any PowerSchool products to access my existing Kinvolved products?
PowerSchool remains committed to open standards and out-of-the-box integrations, meaning you can continue to use your existing solutions, as there is absolutely no requirement to switch to or add any additional PowerSchool solutions. Also, schools and districts that do use PowerSchool solutions can expect to see further integration with Kinvolved in the near future.

Q: How will this acquisition help K-12 schools and districts?
Recent research from the National Education Association shows how crucial parents and families are to the education and growth of students, as support from the home directly increases student attendance and academic outcomes.

Ongoing COVID-related disruptions have also increased the importance of schools being able to communicate time-sensitive updates to parents and families no matter where they are or the language they speak. The return to in-person and hybrid instruction saw a dramatic increase in chronic absenteeism, defined as missing 10 percent or more of the time, with some districts reaching rates as high as 40%. Student absences also have a direct and negative impact on available budget for schools and districts, and recently accounted for$10.7 billion in lost annual funding.

The combination of PowerSchool and Kinvolved will enable schools and districts to strengthen and simplify overall communications and notifications between school and home to increase engagement and help reduce absenteeism.

Q: What does this mean for PowerSchool’s and Kinvolved’s products and customers?
The combination of PowerSchool and Kinvolved will allow schools and districts to centralize communication tools and attendance data with leading teaching and learning solutions to help address chronic absenteeism and strengthen engagement between home and school. Adding Kinvolved to existing PowerSchool solutions benefits educators, students, and their families in multiple ways:

• Deliver targeted mass communications: Recent disruptions to teaching and learning have made timely updates to families more important than ever. Kinvolved helps expedite the delivery of time-sensitive school, district, and class communications via text message, email, and voice call.
• Personalize 2-way communications: Increasing collaboration between schools and homes is a priority for most schools and districts. With Kinvolved, educators can support equity and increase accessibility for all parents with individualized two-way communications that can instantly be translated into more than 80 languages.
• Raise attendance: Studies show that increased family engagement is directly correlated to improved attendance and student outcomes. Kinvolved’s digital attendance/engagement postcards provide administrators with a simplified approach to improving attendance with built-in reporting for deliverability and open rates that support a more efficient and data-driven approach to managing attendance-based interventions.
• Further integration with PowerSchool: As a partner since 2019, Kinvolved already integrates with PowerSchool’s industry-leading student information system (SIS). Our users can also expect additional embedded and seamless integrations with PowerSchool SIS, Schoology Learning, and other products

Q: How does Kinvolved currently integrate with PowerSchool’s solutions?
As a partner since 2019, Kinvolved already integrates with PowerSchool’s industry-leading student information system (SIS). Our users can also expect additional embedded and seamless integrations with PowerSchool SIS, Schoology Learning, and other products.

Q: What is the combined PowerSchool and Kinvolved product roadmap?
While additional details will be made available soon, please know that customers can expect further integration between Kinvolved and PowerSchool. Users can also expect additional embedded and seamless integrations with PowerSchool SIS, Schoology Learning, and other products.

Q: How does PowerSchool plan to support Kinvolved customers?
Our focus during this transition is on you, our customer, and making sure that your organization continues to thrive thanks to Kinvolved.  The Kinvolved team will be joining PowerSchool, and you can continue to work with your existing customer success manager, services, and support contacts. We strive for customer excellence—so our team will work diligently to achieve the highest levels of innovation, support, and services going forward.

Q: Will the same people who support my Kinvolved products today continue to deliver support
The Kinvolved team will be joining PowerSchool, and customers can expect very little change to the individuals they have been used to working with. You can continue to work with your existing customer success manager, services, and support contacts.

I’m not a customer, but want to learn more

If you’d like to find out more about how PowerSchool and Kinvolved can benefit your K-12 school or district, contact us at:​

• 877-873-1550​
• sales@powerschool.com
• powerschool.com/company/contact​