"TransACT is one of the most helpful partnerships that our district has ever entered into. Their service has been instrumental in helping us reach our non-English speaking parents in a way that was amazingly easy. The system is extremely user-friendly and the help is second to none!"
Mary Itskoff
Director, Special Projects
Clovis Unified School District, CA
"Our district was introduced to Transact through the Regional service center and was excited to have access to the NCLB and IDEA guidance, letters, and laws in one easy accessed location. We found the service easy to navigate, well researched, and up to date with compliance to rules and laws. This year, we expanded our subscription to include the General Education services as well. Our nurses and principals have been most excited about having letters available to send home. In addition, we have decided to utilize the portal and we have placed district documents on the Transact portal. This makes access to all important documents just a few easy clicks away. Next year we plan to place the district curriculum documents on the portal. Transact has been most beneficial to our small district!"
Lynn Grell-Boethel
Executive Director Federal and Special Programs
Columbia-Brazoria ISD, TX
“The TransACT webinar training was highly effective for our district. An identified 'point person', from each of our district’s buildings, were trained right from their building site. The ability for us to train on site, have the opportunity to be guided through the program and have questions answered on the spot is a tremendous asset. Thank you TransACT!”
Mary Beth Tack
Title I, ELL & LAP Coordinator
Kelso School District, WA
"TransACT and it's staff have been a gift to our staff and families! The TransACT team is highly motivating, enthusiastic and committed to excellence. Their trainings are useful and easy to understand. Thanks to TransACT, our ELL families are 'connected' and have current and valuable information available to them in their native languages."
Staci Tuck
ELL TOSA
Marysville School District, WA
TransACT Academy: “Great training! The entire training was “hands-on” with professional staff who were not only knowledgeable of the software and the forms that it will produce but were interesting and motivational as well. Participants were given time to synthesize the material and produce a presentation that will be readily useable once they return to their home-base!”
Dr. Wynn Rolf
Director of School Support
ESC Region 12, TX
TransACT Academy: “Talk about personalized training! This was very special for us as it met our training needs (hands-on!) in a very professional and personalized manner. We were able to meet face to face with every member of the TransACT staff and received specific information about each component of TransACT from them. The staff is to be commended for their dedication to their products as well as their willingness to take two full days to work with us personally. This is indeed customer-driven and provided us with the perfect foundation to enable us to assist our districts. Thank you for this opportunity!”
Ms. Judy Hicks
Director of Accountability
ESC Region 12, TX
WA EduPortal: " In Washington, the EduPortal e-Library has provided 'one stop shopping' for information essential to school leaders and their assistants. With support from the state Superintendent of Public Instruction and our nine regional Educational Service Districts, WASA and TransACT have teamed to provide this remarkably comprehensive, convenient, cost-effective and powerful information management tool to over 6600 school leaders and education professionals in over 250 school districts throughout our state! For many of our leaders, this resource is simply indispensable!
John Dekker
Assistant Executive Director, Administrative Services
WASA, WA
“We passed our audit because TransACT helped us follow the legal guidelines in notifying parents of services available to their children and in following through on all sorts of documentation that were required - such as parental waivers, notice of meetings, arrangements for free or reduced lunches. Giving parents these documents in the target language was essential.”
Nancy Larsen
Kershaw County School District, SC
“All of our forms were in order and easy to provide. Each building in our district knew exactly which forms needed to be sent and when. Having the forms easily accessible and a cinch to complete made all of our compliance uniform and well-documented.”
Marty Ellerby
Battle Creek Public Schools, MI
“TransACT enables us to provide a record of the activities required for our audit.”
Burnett Whiteplume
Fremont County School District #38, WY
“We were able to use TransACT to document parent communication, in languages other than English, for our ESOL Title III Consortium grant.”
Elizabeth Paulos
Social Circle City Schools, GA
“We were recently audited through the State Department of Education. TransACT provided us with valuable documentation!”
Nicole Menotti
Jackson Public Schools, MS
“TransACT has really helped me to ensure that student's parents whose primary language is not English are able to understand important information regarding immunization status, as well as other important materials. It really helps that there are a number of languages that the materials can be accessed. TransACT is a vital part of my role as a school nurse.”
Sharon Gutz
Federal Way Public Schools, WA
"TransACT was a tremendous help in meeting the translation requirements of categorical program monitoring (CPM) and we're expanding our usage of TransACT as a warehouse to store our district created/translated documents."
Mary Allen
Program Manager of Special Projects and Assessment
Clovis Unified School District, CA
“Our preschool recently had a NAEYC ( National Association for the Education of Young Children) audit that required evidence of many documents, and one area was communication with parents in their home language. Although I speak Spanish and have taught Spanish, a lot of vocabulary is still new to me and TransACT was a tremendous help. I used it to access other languages as well. We passed the audit with flying colors. Thank you TransACT.”
Bonnie Herndon
Russellville Independent Schools, KY
“During our audit, we were able to use TransACT to provide proof that we had worked with parents in their native language.”
Teri Anderson
Principal, Jere Whitson Elementary School
Putnam County Public Schools, TN
“TransACT enabled us to have the required documents available in a professional form to support our efforts. We received good comments on our programs.”
Wendy Shea
Title I
Clayton Ridge Schools, IA
“We use the TransACT documents to inform our ELL parents in their native languages about placement in our ESL program. We are able to show that we send out the notification letters in multiple languages.”
Shaeley Santiago
Teacher
Ames County School District, IA
“With TransACT, we are in compliance with federal law regarding notices to parents in respect to NCLB.”
Vicki Writsel
English as a Second Language/Limited English Proficiency
Bowling Green Independent Schools, KY
“We often use TransACT translations with our ELL students. We were able to provide auditors with proof of our assistance for those students.”
Chandra Foster
Pupil Placement
Jackson Public Schools, MS
“During our audit, we were able to show how we can communicate with families who are not English speakers. TransACT also allowed us to show how our school system complies with laws regarding ELL and ESL students. That portion of the audit passed state requirements.”
Tammy Hughley
Chambers County School System, AL
“With TransACT, we were able to have the correct forms and be using them when necessary to be in compliance for our audit.”
Bethany Cross
Lane Education Service District, OR
“We were recently monitored by our State Department of Education in our Federal Programs Department. When asked about how we complied with NCLB requirements concerning parent notifications, we were able to say all schools had access to TransACT. ”
Ann Taylor
Assistant Director of Federal Projects & Testing
Carter County Board of Education, TN
“I used Transact to ensure compliance during the Title I audit of December 2007.”
Debra Lockard
Assistant Principal, Woodstock Middle School
Shelby County Schools, TN
“In December we had Title III monitoring and we demonstrated how Transact allows our district employees to comply with NCLB.”
Renata Gil
Jackson Public Schools, MS
“With TransACT’s new Compliance & Communication Center, I am confident that the NCLB parent notices have been legally reviewed and are current with federal mandates. Our district’s partnership allows our administrators more time to concentrate on the day-to-day educational and instructional activities rather than creating new documents for correspondence regarding compliance issues.”
Roland Hernandez, Ph.D.
Superintendent
Waco Independent School District, TX
“The Iowa Department of Education purchased a TransACT Compliance & Communication Center statewide license to help ensure that all of our districts have the capacity to communicate effectively and consistently with families in multiple languages. TransACT facilitates compliance with federal requirements and allows Iowa districts to meaningfully communicate with parents.”
Sharon Hawthorne & Carmen Sosa
Consultants
Iowa Department of Education, IA
“TransACT’s Management System makes it easy for me to ensure that our district is consistently communicating with parents. The usage reports let me know that my staff is sending the appropriate documents at the right times during the year.”
Richard Varrati, Ed.D.
Superintendent
New Philadelphia City School District, OH
"We have subscribed to the TransACT GenEd Parent Notifications (formerly the Translation Library™) for more than 6 years. Over and over, it has proven to be a valuable tool in the Home/School connection. Because of its availability on the desks of school secretaries, nurses, guidance counselors or administrators, they feel empowered to handle with sensitivity, most communications with parents whose first language is not English"
Patricia H. Orndorff
Coordinator of Foreign Languages/ ESOL
Anne Arundel County Public Schools, MD