Improve Engagement in Schools with OUR, Your Immersive Digital Community
Every school system has unique challenges, but there is one common mission: to respond to the needs of the communities they serve and to ensure that staff is equipped to provide the best education possible.
The OUR social platform co-brands with any school and helps administrators make decisions by streamlining community engagement and sentiment gathering. Powered by data visualizations and AI, OUR provides real-time, dynamic polling that is 6x more engaging than standard surveys.
Administrators can post multimedia content with embedded polls in multiple languages and on any device, saving schools time and money, and allowing leaders to test ideas and anticipate outcomes. In addition to district-wide outreach, principals communicate directly with campuses for localized decision-making.
A poll question can be posted to the entire community or targeted to a specific group, e.g., teachers, administrators, or students to gather a 360° perspective. Administrators can analyze responses by demographic and time for granular reporting. Users can opt to remain anonymous or reveal their identity at any time. Moderators can keep comments private from view or make them public, turning opinions into insights without compromising privacy.
For teacher/staff engagement, OUR has proven to be an essential HR tool by opening dialogue outside of collective bargaining. Admins discover concerns before issues become insurmountable, which is essential to staff morale. Steady engagement is particularly important given challenges such as teacher retention, unfunded curriculum mandates, declining enrollment, and learning loss recovery.
Student performance is often tied to what is happening at home, making engagement with parents critical to student success. Parent participation in school affairs is historically low, creating huge gaps in understanding school budgets, mandates, the allocation of resources, and local measures. Surveys get lost in emails, resulting in response rates often as low as 5%. OUR increases inclusion and participation by replacing taxing, time-lagged surveys and town hall meetings with an on-the-go method of gathering feedback that is more reflective of the community.
While assessments can determine if kids are meeting milestones, there is no tool to gauge happiness and engagement, both critical to academic performance. Meaningful feedback from students doesn’t really take place. The OUR app primes older students for adulthood by gamifying civic participation through responsible AI. The OUR app empowers students to share their wants and needs without the risk of cyberbullying by moderating content and gamifying how they engage.
Community engagement should be ongoing. On OUR, parents, students, teachers, administrators, and residents find common ground to shape their school system together.
