Parents: Sign Up for Emergency Information Through Power School
Find Out About School Emergencies
Sign Up Through Power School
The following information was shared at the last School Board Meeting.
Please be advised. This is only an option, but thought I'd share it with you.
Parents may sign up in PowerSchool
parent portal for emergency messages
It never seems soon enough to communicate our plan concerning inclement
weather or a school building heating or power emergency. Parents have the
ability to update contact information in their PowerSchool parent portal to
select how they wish to receive emergency alerts (text, voice, or e- mail). The
steps below outline the procedure to view your contact information in
PowerSchool so that you can opt in or opt out as desired:
Go to http://powerschool.summithill.org.
Enter your username and password and click the Submit button.
Click on the Power Announcement button located on the left navigation bar.
Click on the Expand All button to view all contact information and settings.
Select the option(s) that you want to be contacted.
Verify/modify the phone, e-mail, and cell phone information displayed.
Select the types of messages
that you want to receive:
a) Emergency
Messages – (Everyone receives these)
b) School
Cancellation – (Weather-related school closings or after school program
cancellation)
c) Student
Bulletins – (School-specific information)
d) General Announcements –
(District-related information such as Parent News Briefs, Board of Education
meeting highlights, student registration information, etc.)
Click on the Save Preferences
button to save your settings. (You can modify this information at any time as
desired.)
We also post school closing
information online at www.Emergencyclosings.com. This online website also
electronically sends the information to local radio stations (WGN 720 and WBBM
780) and to local television stations (Channels 2, 5, 7, 9 (WGN), 32 (FOX), and
to CLTV) for reporting to the public.
