ParentSquare Named Winner in the Tech & Learning Awards of Excellence: Back to School 2026

A member of the judging panel called the platform “a game-changer for how we communicate and connect with families across our district.” 

SANTA BARBARA, CA – September 30, 2026 – ParentSquare, the leading family engagement infrastructure for K-12, today announced that it has been named a winner in the Secondary Education category of the Tech & Learning Awards of Excellence: Back to School 2026.

The awards recognize products and solutions that demonstrate versatility, value, innovation, and the ability to address real-world challenges across today’s education landscape.

For back-to-school 2026, ParentSquare expanded ParentSquare Intelligence, the AI and data intelligence layer embedded across the platform. Building on the previously released Contactability™ Benchmark, AI Rewrite, and AI Alt Text, ParentSquare added Conversation Starters and AI Assistant for Smart Sites. Conversation Starters turns classroom posts into two questions for students to talk through with their families at home, one to recount what happened and one to reflect on it, delivered in each family’s home language and tuned to grade level. AI Assistant answers family questions on district websites in 190+ languages, including information and answers in PDFs and images that most AI assistants miss entirely. 

A member of the Awards of Excellence judging panel, who was coincidentally a ParentSquare customer commented, “ParentSquare has been a game-changer for how we communicate and connect with families across our district. Having communication in one place, along with translation and multiple ways for families to receive information, has helped us make district and school communication more accessible, consistent, and effective.”

“Winning this award is especially gratifying, because it’s confirmation that ParentSquare is helping districts and schools strengthen school-home engagement,” said Anupama Vaid, president and founder of ParentSquare. “When families are involved, students thrive, and every feature we build starts with what schools tell us they need to reach every family.”

“Our expert judges were particularly impressed by the quality, innovation and practical impact demonstrated by this year’s winners,” said the Tech & Learning editorial team. “Each winning product has shown its ability to support educators and learners in meaningful ways, and we’re delighted to recognize their achievements.”

The full list of winners is available here. 

About ParentSquare

ParentSquare is rooted in the belief that when families are involved, students thrive. Our all-in-one family engagement platform for K-12 schools brings together communications, attendance, forms, payments, and websites to simplify how schools and families connect and take action. ParentSquare Intelligence, the AI and data layer built into ParentSquare, turns engagement and attendance data into insights that guide proactive outreach, so districts can offer families the right support at the right time. We help schools reach the parents and guardians of more than 22 million students in 190+ languages through the channels families prefer, including app, text, email, and phone. Over 42,000 schools in all 50 states use ParentSquare to build trust with families and save staff time, and it consistently ranks among the top five free apps in the U.S. Learn more at ParentSquare.com.