LivingTree Surpasses 16 Million Points of Engagement as Students Return to School

    AUSTIN, TX, September 01, 2015 /24-7PressRelease/ -- LivingTree has enabled over sixteen million points of engagement between parents, teachers, students and school administrators. Communities are achieving unprecedented levels of partnership with LivingTree's online/mobile app that helps foster and deepen overall communication and parent engagement. Since it 2012 launch, LivingTree has quickly grown to one of the most utilized tools in helping teachers better connect and communicate with parents to increase academic rigor.

The United States now has a majority multicultural school-aged population calling for an increase in TOTAL parent engagement no matter the language of preference. LivingTree provides a private, secure platform for educators including states, school districts, schools, classrooms and parents a single place to engage all members of the education equation in over 40 languages.

"We continue to be humbled and honored by the feedback and look forward to another year of growing and engaging our educator and parent communities," said Joni Carswell, President of LivingTree. "Our mission continues this back-to-school season to help teachers more deeply connect with parents to drive academic achievement for our students and children."

Features of LivingTree's private and secure platform include, content posting in multiple languages, text messages, file sharing, managing calendars, sending invites/alerts for events and activities, volunteer sign up, sharing and posting videos and photos in addition to providing access to contact information for direct and group communication.

"Having worked with the LivingTree platform for the past 3 school years, we can honestly say that our community of parents and teachers is stronger, more closely connected and better engaged in our students' academics," said Eden Hinds, Principal of Briargrove Elementary in Houston ISD. "The LivingTree platform has helped us navigate communication in an intuitive, user friendly and private environment and has bolstered our collaboration and conversations with ALL parents, in the language of their comfort."

Accessible via web, iPhone and Android, the LivingTree platform supports translation in 40+ languages and is built on the latest web and mobile technologies and backed by a highly scalable cloud deployment.

Founded in 2012, LivingTree's mission is to connect the people who raise, develop, and educate our children. LivingTree aims to include every member of the community regardless of preferred language or socio-economic status. LivingTree's secure social network empowers leaders and organizations to connect, share, and coordinate up, down and across all levels of their private network - with school families at the end of the network. http://www.livingtree.com

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