Apptegy for Staff vs Bounceback for Educators

Built for busy school staff, teachers and leaders, Apptegy for Staff: Communication Platform (formerly Thrillshare) makes it easy to communicate with families and strengthen your community. From urgent alerts to classroom updates, newsletters to social media posts, every message can be managed in one app. Share positive stories, send safe two-way messages, post to your website, and reach families instantly by SMS, all from your phone. Apptegy is the only platform that unifies every message, alert, website, and app into one secure experience. With proactive AI moderation, role-based permissions, and enterprise-grade compliance, Apptegy for Staff: Communication Platform protects your district from risk while empowering every role to communicate clearly, confidently, and consistently.

Bounceback is a digital health platform that delivers on-demand wellness-focused professional development for K-12 educators. Bounceback is a comprehensive program — created by educators, for educators — to help adults in the school community. - Manage and reduce stress - Improve overall health and well-being - Earn professional development points Bounceback is for educators who want less stress and calm classrooms. - Affordable: Low-cost and eligible for federal funds - Evidence-Based: Aligned with proven practices cited by healthcare providers - Convenient: On-demand access anytime, anywhere, on any device - Reliable: Same technology used by major video-streaming services 91% of educators experience job-related stress sometimes, frequently, or always. It’s All Connected. A growing body of research confirms a link between teacher stress and student outcomes. Reimagining professional development as a digital health offering, a concept that Bounceback calls "job-embedded wellness," can help K-12 educators manage stress and improve well-being — which, of course, ultimately benefits students.