ParentSquare’s Smart Sites Wins Tech & Learning Awards of Excellence: Best of 2024

The website solution integrates with ParentSquare’s family engagement platform, a single platform for all communications

SANTA BARBARA, CA—Jan. 31, 2025—ParentSquare, the award-winning unified school-home engagement platform for K-12 education, today announced its Smart Sites integrated school website solution has been honored with the Tech & Learning Awards of Excellence: Best of 2024 award within the Secondary Education category.

The Best of 2024 Awards celebrate educational technology from the last 12 months that has excelled and shone in supporting teachers, students, and education professionals in the classroom, for professional development or general management of education resources and learning. Judged by a panel of industry experts, winning an Award of Excellence is more than just acknowledgement from Tech & Learning’s editors, it’s a showcase of which products are truly going above and beyond to contribute to the education sector.

The Tech & Learning editorial team have shared that “The awards brought a huge number of high-quality entries. Our panel of industry experts judged the winning products to be those that were most impactful in helping schools improve teaching and learning throughout 2024. Every winner should be really proud of their accomplishments—a well-deserved congratulations from the entire awards team.”

ParentSquare’s content management system (CMS) Smart Sites is a powerful tool that is changing the way schools and districts engage with families to improve the lives of students. With Smart Sites, schools can create a strong online presence that reflects their values and priorities and helps build an engaged school community. The CMS fully integrates with ParentSquare communications, creating a single platform to publish directly to website pages and social media channels.   

“Effective communication is a key element in building a strong and engaged school community and creating a positive and supportive learning environment,” said ParentSquare President and Founder Anupama Vaid. “Smart Sites offers a streamlined experience for site admins and visitors alike through a rich range of features that helps schools effectively engage families and the wider community. With Smart Sites, districts can easily create accessible, beautiful, and engaging websites that not only keep their communities informed but also strengthen their brand to attract new students, staff, and teachers.”

In 2024, ParentSquare added a new integration to its Smart Sites school website solution, making it quicker and easier to incorporate Canva projects. Educators can now seamlessly add their saved projects from Canva for Education directly to their Smart Sites website without having to leave the ParentSquare platform. 

This integration builds on the existing collaboration between ParentSquare and Canva, which in 2023 introduced a curated collection of Canva for Education templates for newsletters, signature blocks, post headers, and more.

For more information about Smart Sites go to: https://www.parentsquare.com/school-website-design/

About ParentSquare

ParentSquare is the leading family engagement infrastructure helping K-12 districts nationwide reach every family with an award-winning, all-in-one communication platform. Reaching over 22 million students nationwide, ParentSquare helps districts consolidate disconnected tools and outdated communication systems with personalized messaging, websites, forms, payments, and more — in one easy-to-use platform. With powerful features for achieving 100% contactability, two-way translation into 190+ languages, and purpose-built AI enhancements, ParentSquare empowers districts to invite every family to be involved in their student’s education, no matter their home language or the device they use.

Recognized for growth and innovation by Inc. 5000, GSV 150, and more, ParentSquare was founded in 2011 in Santa Barbara, California. Learn more at parentsquare.com.