1. Connecting families, schools, and communities through
real-time data to improve student achievement

2. 25%
of students miss a month of school per year.

3. Students who miss 30+ days of
school/year will graduate at a rate of
21%.
Allensworth, E. & Easton, Q. (2007) Research Report: What matters for staying on-track and graduating in Chicago public high schools.

4. 1 in 4
students drop out nationally.

5. 71%
of dropouts say the best way
to keep students in school
is to engage families.

6. 33%
students say their parents do not know
how they are doing in school.
65%
of parents wish they could be more involved
in their child’s education.

7. Kinvolved is improving K-12 achievement by empowering
families through data-driven solutions.
Our tools…
facilitate improved understanding of
attendance, behavior, & course scores
empower families to be active
participants in education by having
access to information in real-time
analyze student data to ensure all
students are on track to graduate

8. We have proven our model with a 300+ student
beta test from ‘12-’13.
Our attendance tool improved student
attendance behavior & family engagement.
3,500 students are currently enrolled in our
system as of Jan. 2014.

10. PORTFOLIO OF TOOLS
Attendance tracker
Records, analyzes, communic
ates attendance information
Reddit for Teachers
Crowd sources best practices
for engaging families +
improving attendance
Graduation rate forecaster
Predicts students’ rate of
graduation based on
attendance, behavior, and
course score data
Interventions engine
Suggests individualized + classbased interventions to
improve attendance
Positive incentive tool
Gamifies attendance +
rewards students for positive
behavior
Parent engagement features
Empower families with more
information, 2-way
communication, polling to
crowd source best practices

11. Attendance tracker
Teachers record
attendance in
less than 30
seconds. Reasons
for absenteeism
and minutes late
are recorded.

13. Parents receive an SMS or email in real-time notifying them of
lateness/absenteeism.
Parents also have access to a personalized online portal.
New SMS:
Sam was
absent
from 1st
period…
Lauren’s attendance
Present: 30 days
Absent: 10 days
Late:
15 days
Contact teacher
Families, receive SMS
and/or email
(customizable) in
English/Spanish in
real-time (only basic
cell required to receive
SMS) notifying them of
absenteeism/lateness.

14. Interventions engine
Student: Lauren Gray
Parent: Susan Gray
Daily Absence/Lateness
Total Attendance
Reason for Absence/Lateness
Monday
10%
Present
19%
30%
40%
Late
10% 10%
Friday
Transport.
9%
Thursday
10%
Illness
23%
9%
Wednesday
Absent
71%
Tuesday
14%
Peers
Family
45%
Work
Lauren is most likely to miss/be late to school on Mondays because of Peers.
Recommended Interventions: (1) Parent conference; (2) Conference with peer group; (3)
Incentives for all peers to encourage timely arrival to school
Contact parent
Email report
Post message

15. Positive incentive tool
Student: Lauren Gray
Parent: Susan Gray
This Week’s Points
My Points
25
20
15
10
5
0
Teamwork
Behavior
Points
Homework
Points
On Time
Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4
0
Total Points Earned: 45
Points Spent: 10
Points Remaining: 35
School Rank: 4 of 510
Collect Rewards
5
10

16. Graduation rate forecaster
Student: Lauren Gray
Parent: Susan Gray
Attendance (A)
Behavior Records (B)
Course Scores (C)
10%
Total
Present
71%
3
Absent
19%
Detention
Suspension
1
Late
Course
Grade
English
A
Math
B
Science
Record
D-
Lauren’s current graduation rate based on ABC’s:
72%
Contact parent
Email report
Post message

17. Parent engagement features
Parent: Susan Gray
Student: Lauren Gray
Welcome, Susan!
What would you like to do?
School Updates
View student records
Parent teacher conferences are
tonight! Your meeting with Ms.
Altman is at 7:00pm.
Contact teacher
Weekly Poll
View attendance data
Contact main office
View my points
Create award
What would best help prepare your
child for the State Math Exam in 30
days?
(a) Individual teacher conference
(b) Test prep materials to use at home
(c) Parent training in school
(d) Other:

18. Partnerships
Kinvolved is Blue Ridge Portfolio
company. Blue Ridge’s mission is
to help connect people living in
high poverty communities to
opportunity.
They
support
innovative, new ventures that
apply technology to improve
social and economic mobility in
the U.S.
Kinvolved works with Teach For
America to broaden our reach to
teachers/schools nationally. TFA
markets Kinvolved online to
National and Regional Corps
member and alumni. We train and
pilot with regional Corps members.
We launched the first alum venture
Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign
in partnership with TFA.
Kinvolved is an Independent
Service Vendor Partner with
Pearson’s PowerSchool.
PowerSchool is the leading and
fastest
growing
student
information system, supporting 12
million students in all 50 states and
65 countries.

19. ACCOMPLISHMENTS
GRAND PRIZE
WINNER
GRANT
FINALIST
2012
2013
2013
NYU VENTURE
CHALLENGE
NYU
ACCELERATOR
BLUE RIDGE
PORTFOLIO
BLUE
RIDGE
FOUNDATION
2013
2013
2013

20. Kinvolved’s Progress
2012
BETA
2013-2014


2014-2015
2016

ROLLOUT
EXPANSION
BETA:
ROLLOUT:
1 NYC ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, 15 TEACHERS, 250 STUDENTS, 10 PARENTS
PARTNERSHIP WITH 6 SCHOOLS IN 2 DISTRICTS (PUBLIC AND CHARTER); 3,000+ STUDENTS
ENROLLED; PARTNERSHIP WITH COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATIONS; TECHNICAL
INTEGRATION WITH PEARSON POWERSCHOOL
EXPANSION: WORK IN 10+ SCHOOL DISTRICTS OVER THE NEXT 3 YEARS

21. WWW.KINVOLVED.COM
MIRIAM ALTMAN
MIRIAM@KINVOLVED.COM
ALEXANDRA MEIS
ALEXANDRA@KINVOLVED.COM