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FASTalk Teacher Resources

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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.
GETTING STARTED WITH FASTalk IN YOUR CLASSROOM

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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!
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HOW-TO GUIDES​
  • How-to:  Claim your FASTalk classroom​
    • PDF guide
 
  • How-to:  Edit parent/caregiver's home language
    • ​video
    • PDF guide
 
  • How-to:  Edit parent/caregiver's phone number
    • ​video
    • PDF guide
 
  • How-to: Send families a personalized text using the FASTalk chat box
    • ​video
    • PDF guide
 
  • How-to: Send a group text to multiple families
    • PDF guide
 
  • How-to add/remove student from FASTalk class roster
    • ​video
    • PDF guide
 
  • How-to: Create your own FASTalk playlist
    • video
    • ​PDF guide
 
  • How-to: Customize an existing FASTalk playlist
    • ​PDF guide
 
  • How-to: Stop FASTalk messages for parents
    • ​PDF guide
 
  • How-to: Send a shortened link through FASTalk
    • video
    • ​PDF guide
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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: 
    • English
    • Arabic
    • Chinese
    • Spanish
    • Vietnamese
 
  • [From Teachers: 2-way messaging] Informational letter for families available for download in multiple languages: 
    • English
    • Amharic
    • Arabic
    • Chinese
    • Farsi
    • Khmer
    • Mongolian
    • Pashto
    • Spanish
    • Tagalog
    • Tigrinya
    • Vietnamese 
​     Contact [email protected] if additional languages are needed.

  • Open House presentation deck for families 


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