What is FASTalk?

FASTalk (Families and Schools Talk) is a family engagement tool that promotes equity and builds partnerships between teachers and historically underserved families by sharing engaging, at-home learning activities via text messages in each family’s home language. 

FASTalk District & School Partners

​With FASTalk:

• Educators easily send to families welcoming and inclusive text messages with weekly activities to reinforce classroom learning.
• Students experience literacy gains, especially when parents do not share a home language with the teacher.
• Messages automatically translate into 100+ languages, facilitating two-way communication between educators and families.
• Activities are fun, fast, and easy for busy families to complete on their own time, anywhere.
• Any caregiver with access to a cell phone can engage. No computer or internet connection required.
• Curriculum alignment with 10 of the most widely used, high quality ELA instructional materials such as EL Education, ELA Guidebooks, and more.​

​FASTalk Reinforces High-Quality Curricula

ELA Curricula

• EL Education's ELA Curriculum
• ELA Guidebooks
• Core Knowledge Language Arts (Amplify and Core Knowledge Alignment)

Early Childhood Education

• Teaching Strategies GOLD
• Developmental Milestones
• Frog Street 2020

Math Curricula

• Illustrative Mathematics

Standards-Aligned

• Standards-aligned ELA
  
• Science of Reading
• Standards-aligned Math

Preview FASTalk Messages

FASTalk Supports 100+ Languages

FASTalk messages with learning activities are professionally translated into the following languages:

• Arabic
• Amharic
• Chinese (traditional)
• Farsi

• Khmer
• Mongolian
• Pashto
• ​Spanish

• Swahili
• ​Tagalog
• Tigrinya
• Vietnamese

If your district or state has additional language needs, please let us know. We are happy to customize our curriculum-aligned learning activities to the needs of your families.

In total, FASTalk SMS messages translate into 100+ languages based on a family's home language or language preferences, facilitating seamless two-way communication between school and home.

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