SANTA BARBARA, CA—Sept. 19, 2025—ParentSquare Attendance Plus, ParentSquare’s powerful attendance solution to help K-12 districts reduce chronic absenteeism through early, compassionate communication, has won this year’s Tech & Learning Awards of Excellence: Back to School 2025 within the Secondary category.
Back for the approaching 2025-26 school year, the Tech & Learning Awards of Excellence celebrate the most outstanding products offering schools versatility, value, and solutions to specific problems to support innovative and effective teaching and learning. Judged by a panel of industry experts, winning an Award of Excellence is more than just acknowledgement from Tech & Learning’s editors, it is a showcase of which products are truly going above and beyond to contribute to the education sector.
The awards’ editorial team have shared that “The 2025 awards welcomed an abundance of high quality entries. Our panel of industry experts judged the winning products and solutions to be of the highest standard in supporting effective teaching and learning practices when moving into the new school year. Every winner should be immensely proud of their accomplishments—a well-deserved congratulations from the entire Tech & Learning awards team.”
Built directly into the ParentSquare platform that millions of educators and families already know and trust for school-home communication, ParentSquare Attendance Plus supports every stage of attendance outreach from tiered data insights to intervention documentation while further strengthening relationships between families and schools. By uniting data with real-time attendance insights, staff can act quickly, personalize outreach, and strengthen support systems before absenteeism becomes a pattern.
“We’re honored that Tech & Learning recognized ParentSquare Attendance Plus as one of the most outstanding products supporting schools this year,” said Alex Meis, MPA, chronic absenteeism expert and Senior Director of Product at ParentSquare. “The award celebrates solutions that bring versatility, value, and address specific challenges in education—and that’s exactly what ParentSquare Attendance Plus was designed to do. By helping schools tackle chronic absenteeism with proactive, empathetic communication, we’re enabling educators to spend less time on paperwork and more time building the strong family connections that drive student success.”
To view the full list of winners, visit https://links.psqr.io/4puKA6T.
About ParentSquare
ParentSquare is the trusted leader in school-home engagement, helping K-12 districts nationwide reach every family with an award-winning, all-in-one communication platform. Reaching over 20 million students across the country, ParentSquare replaces one-size-fits-all legacy systems with personalized messaging, websites, forms, payments, and more—built together in one easy-to-use platform. With powerful features for achieving 100% contactability, two-way translation into 190+ languages, and purpose-built AI enhancements, ParentSquare empowers districts to invite every family to be involved in their student’s education, no matter their home language or the device they use.
Recognized for growth and innovation by Inc. 5000, GSV 150, and more, ParentSquare was founded in 2011 in Santa Barbara, California. Learn more at parentsquare.com.