Schools who haven’t already deployed Landline Texting are quickly converting their school phone number to be text-enabled to send and receive text messages. The unexpected quarantine period brought on by the coronavirus (COVID-19) has caused parents to panic while they look for ways to continue educating and providing healthy activities for their children.
Netflix and chill is not the answer for all of the students who are now unexpectedly being asked to stay home for nearly a month. The anxiety is now building as parents try to figure out what to do with their students during the quarantine that was set in place to avoid the spread of the coronavirus.
While many working parents will be the most anxious to figure out an educational continuity plan, communities are quickly coming up with local resources that will help with providing solutions for care and meals. Even day cares are being closed so it may be time for the mommy groups on Facebook to start working together to figure out a plan for where to keep children who have working parents during the school day.
Those who are able to keep their children home will want a plan and direction to keep their children’s minds and bodies active and avoid disruption as much as possible. Many schools will be using landline texting to send announcements and distribute assignments through their online portal and request that the work be submitted by a certain date to be logged and graded. But not all schools have online portals in place, and some have very limited functionality so giving step-by-step or hour-by-hour instructions to parents is not an option.
Landline texting will be the most useful and resourceful tool for schools to guide parents during the COVID-19 quarantine.
4 Landline Texting Practices for Schools During Quarantine
If you’re on the faculty of a school who didn’t have a distance learning plan in place before the quarantine period was announced, then it’s up to you to save the day. Tell your school’s administration about landline texting services to enlighten them about this incredible communication solution. In order for the school’s staff to stay connected with parents and students during the pandemic, text messaging will work faster to send and receive messages.
You can keep a personalized relationship with families by customizing messages by groups. You can then send bulk messages to each group to filter messages by grade level, age, class, etc. Here are some of the most useful ways for schools to use landline texting to stay in touch during the quarantine.
1. Daily Lesson Plans
While the kids may have thought they were granted an additional spring break this year, staying at home during the COVID-19 quarantine doesn’t have to exclude learning. Schools who have implemented landline texting will be able to send daily lesson plans each morning to their students. If there are worksheets or pages to be downloaded for each lesson, the text message can include a link to the downloadable documents.
Instructions for each lesson and due dates can be included in the text message which will be archived on the user panel to keep a history of what was sent to each student. If there are students who need extra help, you can send an invite link to host a web conference session for each lesson.
Exams: Even if the quarantine only lasts a month, there is a quiz or test that would have taken place in the classroom that can now be taken at home. Not only could you send a link to take a test online to each student through the Text My Main Number landline texting platform, but you can also create study groups and add students who need the study buddies into the group.
2. Book of the week
Reading books is encouraged throughout the entire school year, but the typical 10 minutes a day can now be elongated since students will be spending more time at home during the quarantine period. Teachers can assign a book to be read each week and throughout the week send writing assignments via text message to ensure that all students are staying up to date with their reading.
You can make reading a bit more fun by inviting open discussion about the book just like a book club would. Teachers can create a group for the book in the Text My Main Number user panel and send a text message with highlights of each chapter. Then ask students to reply with their favorite takeaway and now you have a live chat going via text messaging.
3. Activity Schedules with Landline texting
While they may not have physical education (AKA gym class) during the quarantine, that doesn’t mean all physical activity has to come to a halt. There are so many options for exercise at home and outdoors that can be applied each day to maintain an active lifestyle. Physical education teachers can text parents and students with a weekly activity schedule to be followed by each student. Even a little research on YouTube can help coaches find at-home exercises for students to which they can send links to using the SMS platform.
We don’t want students cooped up indoors all day either so don’t forget to include outdoor activities that can be included into their weekly schedule that won’t require students to be too exposed to the general public. A 30-minute walk in the park or around the neighborhood should be safe and healthy for students.
4. Meal Plans
You don’t realize how complex coming up with a weekly food menu is until you have to put a meal plan together for a student. The school’s cafeteria doesn’t serve the same thing each day and neither should your home. Keeping students up to pace with their well-balanced meals and schedules will be ideal during quarantine.
Try to serve kids breakfast and lunch during the same time they’re used to so that you can keep them on a structured schedule. The school faculty can send the existing meal plan through the landline texting platform to parents each week. That will take the guess work out of trying to figure out what to shop for during the quarantine. Following a meal plan and serving meals during the same time the school does will help keep daily routines as normal as can be. The quarantine period doesn’t have to be disorganized and with the help of a landline texting platform to keep the school staff connected with students and parents, you will be able to set up a temporary and effective routine right away. Contact us today so we can review how quick and easy it is to get started!
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