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Welcome to Blackbaud's Education Management Community for K-12 Schools

Connect with fellow K-12 members and experts to gain knowledge, share insights, and solve problems.

Welcome to Blackbaud's Education Management Community for K-12 Schools

Connect with fellow K-12 members and experts to gain knowledge, share insights, and solve problems.

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What's New:

Simplify Every Transaction: How Blackbaud Integrated Payments Powers the K-12 Experience
One payment platform. Three trusted partners. Endless possibilities for your school community. Posted by the Blackbaud K-12 Community Team | Payments & Technology | 5 min read Managing payments across a K-12 school shouldn't feel like a juggling act. Whether you're collecting lunch funds, processing alumni donations, or…
K–12 User Conference 2026 Recap
The long-anticipated return of Blackbaud’s K–12 User Conference brought together hundreds of educators, administrators, and technology leaders for three days of learning, connection, and a look at what's ahead for Blackbaud K–12. With over 80 sessions specifically curated for educators, more than 20 K–12 Partners in…
Blackbaud's Education Management Solutions: What’s New for September 15, 2026
Here are all the latest new features for Blackbaud's Education management solutions! To access information about this release, use the following links: What’s New What's Recent Help Center

Resource Center

All your Blackbaud K-12 resources in one place.

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Back to School

Resources to help K-12 and Higher Education institutions get ready for the new academic year.

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Featured Discussions

One way I use the APIs - People Lists
Many of the programs I wrote that use the Blackbaud School API also use APIs for other services. That allows me to extract information from the SIS and use it to update other systems or files. One of the most useful projects is the People Lists spreadsheet. We’re a Google school so we have many files shared to employees.…
Some sample code to use the SKY API in Visual Basic
I write all of the programs that access the SKY API in Visual Basic. I use the SKYLib•Net library from Protege Solutions. It handles a lot of the ugly details so that I can focus on the data. You can download the library and an example program at the Protege website. https://protege.com.au/skylib The download is free and…
School Activities Calendar End Point
Hi everyone, Is there any endpoint that I can use to pull the school activities calendar? Thank you for any update.
A Deep Dive into Parent Submitted Attendance!
Happy Friday everyone! With a new school year upon us, I wanted to draw your attention to a brand new blog post detailing the Parent Submitted Attendance feature. It's a deep dive into this full feature, explaining what it is, how to use it, and we're even teasing a bit of what's coming down the road to further enhance the…
Creating a field on the parent record
I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas about where we could create a field to mark that a parent has been background checked. The teachers would need to see this but we wouldn't want it to be seen by parents or students. Any ideas???
Is there a way to subscribe to the bell class schedule?
We have a rotating schedule. I can subscribe to a kid's individual schedule and see what period we are in throughout the day, but it then fills up the top of my Google calendar with all of that student's assignments. I am trying to find a way to subscribe to just the bell schedule, so I can see the periods each day on my…

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Monthly K-12 Community Leaders

Meet the All-Stars!

Meet All-Star Lauren Henderson!

Lauren Henderson is a Blackbaud Implementation and Configuration Consultant for Phillips Academy - Andover. Ask her about APIs!

Lauren Henderson

Meet All-Star Brian Gray!

Brian is a retired Technology Systems Administrator for St. Stephen's Episcopal School. He's an expert in API's, but he may not respond right away, as he is enjoying his retirement!

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Success Stories!

Improving the Student and Staff Experience

Calvert Hall College High School uses Blackbaud’s Total School Solution to connect systems, simplify operations, and support the full school community.

In this video, Austin Ewachiw, Director of Technology, shares how that connected approach helps the school work more efficiently. Read the full story here.

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Saving Time, Reallocating Resources

Learn how NSU University School leverages Blackbaud’s enrollment, tuition, and financial aid ecosystem rather than managing separate products and processes.

In this story, Jake Glickman, Associate Head of School Operations, shares how the shift streamlined workloads and reclaimed 450 hours of staff time for mission-driven work.