FASTalk BASICS
FASTalk is an evidence-based tool that sparks dialogue between teachers, parents and students about classroom learning.
Families receive weekly curriculum-aligned activities sent via text in their home language. The activities are fun and easy for busy families to do anywhere.
Ongoing parent-teacher communication about student learning is seamless with two-way, automatic translation in 100+ languages.
FASTalk is an evidence-based tool that sparks dialogue between teachers, parents and students about classroom learning.
Families receive weekly curriculum-aligned activities sent via text in their home language. The activities are fun and easy for busy families to do anywhere.
Ongoing parent-teacher communication about student learning is seamless with two-way, automatic translation in 100+ languages.
GETTING STARTED WITH FASTalk IN YOUR CLASSROOM
1. Participate in FASTalk Teacher Training Webinar (Contact [email protected] for webinar information for your school site)
2. Claim your classroom roster + survey to set-up your account.
Go to www.fastalk.org and click on Set up my FASTalk account.
Please follow this step-by-step guide or contact [email protected] if you have any questions.
3. Verify classroom roster - The class rosters have been pre-loaded to your teacher accounts using family contact data received from your site. After completing the claim process, please log-in to your www.fastalk.org account to verify accuracy. If you notice any students are missing, please contact [email protected] and we can help!
HOW-TO GUIDES
- How-to: Claim your FASTalk classroom
- How-to: Send a group text to multiple families
- How-to: Customize an existing FASTalk playlist
- How-to: Stop FASTalk messages for parents
- How-to: Send a shortened link through FASTalk
FASTalk FOR FAMILIES
- [Video] Intro to FASTalk for Families (<2-minute clip)
- English
- Spanish subtitles
- Arabic subtitles
- Vietnamese subtitles
- Chinese subtitles
- [From Schools: 1-way messaging] Informational letter for families available for download in multiple languages:
- [From Teachers: 2-way messaging] Informational letter for families available for download in multiple languages: