Remind Messaging Service
Effective August 1, 2020
Dear JWMS Band Parents,
Welcome to another great year of music making at James Workman Middle School. I hope you all enjoyed your summer and are looking forward to this school year, I know I am! My goal is to always keep you informed about band events and band news. “Remind” is a service that uses your cell phone and/or email to keep parents and students informed about events. In order to prevent using too much paper this year, I will not be sending home flyers so I will need everyone to sign up for this service either through their cellphone or email.
WHAT IS REMIND? Remind provides a safe way for teachers to text message students and stay in touch with parents for free. When teachers use www.remind.com , the Android or iOS app, sends texts to students and parents phones without ever having to share their own phone number. Students and parents also never have to share their phone number with teachers. Ever.
WHAT MAKES REMIND SAFE?
Teachers never see their students’ phone numbers, students never see the teachers’ phone number. Remind is a one way broadcast system. Teachers cannot send individual messages to students and parents and they cannot reply. Remind also keeps a log of all message history which can never be edited or deleted.
You will need to send a text to the following phone number with your child’s correct class period’s code in order to sign up. Text the following phone number: 81010 with the code of the class your child is in, in the text message (see codes below). You will receive a text message back confirming what your login name will be. Please make your login: last name, first name, for student name. This is so I can give your child credit for signing up. All students and parents need to sign up for Remind. It is important that everyone is informed of what is going on in band land.
I will be assigning credit to each student and parent who signs up for Remind. Please use the following to sign up so I can identify who has signed up. I need a first name, last name for each student. If I can not identify who has signed up, no credit will be earned.
Sample Parent Login: Knapp, Ellie (mom)
Sample Student Login: Knapp, Ellie
Period 1 - @bighorns1
Period 2 - @bighorns2
Period 3 - @bighorns3
Period 5 - @bighorns5
Period 6 - @bighorns6
Strings Club - jwviolins
If you will be signing up for email service (instead of cell phone texting or in addition to), please send an email to the following email address. You do not need to write a subject or message in the email.
Period 1 [email protected]
Period 2 [email protected]
Period 3 [email protected]
Period 4 [email protected]
Period 7 [email protected]
Strings Club jwviolins@mail.remind.com
The only catch with this service is you can not reply back using remind email or texts. If you have a question or concern, please feel free to email me or call the school and leave a message at 760-770-8540 ext. 2601. I return emails very quickly, phone calls take longer. As always, I do my best to return all messages within 24 hours.
My main goal is to keep the students and parents better informed about events and to also cut down on the use of paper. Thank you for having your child in band. I love seeing them every day and can’t wait to make music with them this year.
Ms. Dean-Knapp
Welcome to another great year of music making at James Workman Middle School. I hope you all enjoyed your summer and are looking forward to this school year, I know I am! My goal is to always keep you informed about band events and band news. “Remind” is a service that uses your cell phone and/or email to keep parents and students informed about events. In order to prevent using too much paper this year, I will not be sending home flyers so I will need everyone to sign up for this service either through their cellphone or email.
WHAT IS REMIND? Remind provides a safe way for teachers to text message students and stay in touch with parents for free. When teachers use www.remind.com , the Android or iOS app, sends texts to students and parents phones without ever having to share their own phone number. Students and parents also never have to share their phone number with teachers. Ever.
WHAT MAKES REMIND SAFE?
Teachers never see their students’ phone numbers, students never see the teachers’ phone number. Remind is a one way broadcast system. Teachers cannot send individual messages to students and parents and they cannot reply. Remind also keeps a log of all message history which can never be edited or deleted.
You will need to send a text to the following phone number with your child’s correct class period’s code in order to sign up. Text the following phone number: 81010 with the code of the class your child is in, in the text message (see codes below). You will receive a text message back confirming what your login name will be. Please make your login: last name, first name, for student name. This is so I can give your child credit for signing up. All students and parents need to sign up for Remind. It is important that everyone is informed of what is going on in band land.
I will be assigning credit to each student and parent who signs up for Remind. Please use the following to sign up so I can identify who has signed up. I need a first name, last name for each student. If I can not identify who has signed up, no credit will be earned.
Sample Parent Login: Knapp, Ellie (mom)
Sample Student Login: Knapp, Ellie
Period 1 - @bighorns1
Period 2 - @bighorns2
Period 3 - @bighorns3
Period 5 - @bighorns5
Period 6 - @bighorns6
Strings Club - jwviolins
If you will be signing up for email service (instead of cell phone texting or in addition to), please send an email to the following email address. You do not need to write a subject or message in the email.
Period 1 [email protected]
Period 2 [email protected]
Period 3 [email protected]
Period 4 [email protected]
Period 7 [email protected]
Strings Club jwviolins@mail.remind.com
The only catch with this service is you can not reply back using remind email or texts. If you have a question or concern, please feel free to email me or call the school and leave a message at 760-770-8540 ext. 2601. I return emails very quickly, phone calls take longer. As always, I do my best to return all messages within 24 hours.
My main goal is to keep the students and parents better informed about events and to also cut down on the use of paper. Thank you for having your child in band. I love seeing them every day and can’t wait to make music with them this year.
Ms. Dean-Knapp