PGCPS parent communication guide

Prince George's County Public Schools (PGCPS) reaches families across several tools at once. Here's a plain guide to how PGCPS communicates, and how to keep up without living in your notifications.

How PGCPS reaches parents

• School & district email: official notices from your school and the district.
• ParentSquare: PGCPS uses ParentSquare for school and classroom communication, including urgent alerts.
• Canvas: assignments, grades, and class announcements.
• Remind: quick teacher-to-parent messages.
• Phone & text alerts: closures, delays, and early dismissals.

The catch: it's spread out

Every channel has its own app and settings, and they all deliver messages the same way, so the field-trip form and the early-dismissal alert look identical in your inbox. The result is a familiar one: important PGCPS messages get buried under routine ones.

How to keep up with all of it

• Turn on text alerts for urgent notices.
• Put ParentSquare on a daily digest to cut the noise.
• Let one tool read them all. AVVI recognizes PGCPS's senders and surfaces only what needs you (across ParentSquare, Canvas, Remind, and district email) so you stop hunting across apps.

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