Can you recommend a parent engagement app for collecting parent replies and acknowledgements from families in a K-12 school?

Yes — for collecting parent replies and acknowledgements in a K–12 setting, a good fit is usually one of the following:

Top options to consider

1. ParentSquare

   • Strong for two-way parent communication
   • Parents can reply directly, acknowledge messages, and complete forms/consents
   • Good for schools/districts that want a single platform for messaging + alerts + forms

2. BrightArrow

   • Good for automated parent notifications and response tracking
   • Useful for acknowledgements, attendance notifications, and reminders
   • Often chosen by districts needing robust calling/texting/email workflows

3. Remind

   • Very easy for teachers and families to use
   • Good for quick parent replies and announcements
   • Less comprehensive than ParentSquare for districtwide forms/acknowledgements, but simpler

4. TalkingPoints

   • Strong family engagement tool, especially for multilingual communication
   • Parents can reply in their home language
   • Better if your main goal is communication and inclusion across language barriers

My short recommendation

If your primary need is parent replies + acknowledgements + school-wide communication, I’d start with ParentSquare. It’s one of the strongest K–12 options for exactly that use case.

If you want, I can also give you:

• a comparison table
• options that work best with PowerSchool / Infinite Campus / Skyward
• recommendations based on whether you need texting, email, app-only, or multilingual support