Tress Learning

Your content and communication partner

What it is: Tress Learning is a content and communications partner built specifically for schools. Instead of adding another platform or tool, Tress works within the channels your community already uses, including email, Instagram, Facebook, blogs, websites, print materials, etc.

Tress is medium‑agnostic by design. Their work begins with getting to know your school: your values, culture, differentiators, voice, and communication goals. From there, they repurpose existing assets (photos, stories, newsletters, announcements, events, classroom moments) into cohesive, strategic communication that feels aligned and intentional.

The result is consistent, thoughtful parent communication that keeps families actively engaged, strengthens your school’s presence in the local community, and encourages organic parent referrals without requiring your educators or administrators to become content marketers.

Maybe my favorite thing about Tress Learning is that there is no new platform to learn. Everything happens through email collaboration with the Tress team, making it super easy to implement and sustainable even for very small schools.

How Tress Learning can be implemented in your school: Tress amplifies the work you’re already doing by freeing up your team from the constant pressure of “we should be posting more” or “we need to send another email.” It ensures your families hear a clear, aligned story across platforms rather than disconnected messages depending on who had time that week. (I may be speaking from experience here…)

Whether your community prefers email, social media, or print, Tress helps you communicate in the places that already matter to your families. At Anastasis, one of the things I learned is that ongoing school communication isn’t just about announcements; it’s a way to nurture trust, clarity, and connection. With Tress, even small schools like Anastasis can show up with polish, strategy, and consistency without needing to hire a full communications team (as if we ever had the budget for that-ha!)

I’m genuinely impressed with the Tress team and the personalized way they approach school communication. I wish they existed for Anastasis, it would have been a game changer for me to have this kind of communications support!

Check out a video to see Tress in action.


Tips: Interested in getting started? Mention iLearn Tech to receive a partner discount!

Adobe Spark: Easily create and share videos, images, and newsletters

Adobe Spark: Create videos, images, and newsletters in a snap!

 

Adobe Spark: Easily create videos, images, and newsletters in a snap!

What it is: Adobe Spark is a collection of fantastic (free!) creative tools available online or as an app download.

  • Create social graphics that are stunning and easy to share (you know the kind: flyers, memes, posters, ads). The example above took under 2min to create and share! 🙂
  • Make beautiful web stories for event recaps, newsletters, photo journals, portfolios, etc.
  • Produce and share impressive videos for storytelling, projects, or to share to social media.

If you (or your students) are feeling a lack of creativity, there is even a bank of inspiration that will get you started! This is particularly helpful for your students who struggle with a place to start but are brilliant with a little nudge. Whether you begin with inspiration or not, you’ll be feeling an extra burst of creativity in no time.

How to integrate Adobe Spark in the classroom: The collection of tools in Adobe Spark are perfect for students and teachers alike. Students can use these tools to create book reviews, to document science experiments, for storytelling, to explain their inquiry process, as an eportfolio, to illustrate math concepts, and so much more! These tools will help your students take their learning and present it in a way that is both visually powerful, and easy to share.

Teachers, you can use Adobe Spark to create a weekly newsletter (SO easy to share home with parents!), create photo journals of class events or field trips, to create writing and thinking prompts to share with students, quotes, presentations, and announcements. The photo journal would be a great way to give families a glimpse into your classroom, if you’re like me, your phone is FULL of pictures at the end of each week! If you have a class social media channel on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube- Adobe Spark is about to take it to the next level of awesomeness!

I love the way that Adobe Spark has made digital storytelling that much easier to create and share. This is a site that you’ll want to bookmark for easy access, and put on all of your students devices if you have a one-to-one environment.

Tips: If you have laptops, the web version of Adobe Spark is best, otherwise download the app!