K-12 event management

Discover five practical ways Sched’s social media features make school events more engaging and easier to manage.

Planning PD in K-12 schools is tougher than ever. Discover 7 obstacles making PD harder, and practical solutions to make your next event a success.

Looking for the best K–12 event planning software? See how Sched and Yapp compare on features, pricing, and usability for school events.

Planning career day events across four counties and 16 school districts sounds overwhelming, but not for DCMO BOCES. With Sched, Christina McCall-Hopkins and her team replaced paper forms and spreadsheets with one centralized platform, saving days of work and delivering a smoother experience for over 1,200 students and 40+ business speakers. From easy registration to real-time reporting, Sched made event planning simple and easy.

Overwhelmed by event planning? This guide helps K–12 leaders cut time in half without cutting corners, featuring real tips and tools schools use.

The Wisconsin Educational Media & Technology Association (WEMTA) runs a major statewide conference each year, connecting school librarians and tech leaders across the state. With Sched, they deliver a smooth, organized experience, complete with personalized schedules, mobile access, and a central hub for all session materials. After more than a decade of partnership, Sched remains WEMTA’s go-to event platform.

Planning shouldn’t be the hardest part of running a successful school event. From PD days and new teacher onboarding to districtwide conferences and community nights, K–12 teams manage a lot. And when information lives in spreadsheets, feedback forms, email drafts, and hallway whiteboards, it’s inefficient and exhausting. District leaders are choosing Sched not because they…

Learning days should support your staff, not drain them. You’ve seen it: a full day of sessions, built with the best intentions, but it still ends in hallway confusion, session reshuffling, and feedback forms that go unread. Not because anyone dropped the ball, but because traditional PD planning often overlooks what teachers actually need to…

Looking for the best school event management software in the UK? Discover the top 5 platforms for seamless event planning, scheduling, and attendee engagement for Inset Days and more.

If you’ve ever run a Professional Development (PD) day, you know the logistics can take over: Session sign-ups in Google Forms. Attendance tracked on paper. Reminders sent manually. Feedback trickling in days too late to be useful. And that’s before anything actually starts. The truth is, most PD coordinators and school leaders aren’t struggling with…

Planning school events isn’t just logistics. You need to create meaningful experiences that support learning, strengthen school culture, and build trust with staff, families, and the community.  But even the most well-intentioned teams can fall into traps that derail the experience and drain everyone’s energy. Below are 20 common (and costly) planning mistakes schools make…

You put in the hours. Your team pulled it off. The event went well… or at least it seemed like it did. But now it’s Monday and when someone asks, “Was it worth it?”—can you answer with data? For most school leaders, answering that question is harder than it should be. Without real-time attendance tracking,…