# Daystage

> Daystage is an AI-powered school newsletter platform for educators, schools and districts. Teachers, principals, and school administrators create, send, and manage professional newsletters to parents and families in minutes instead of hours. Every newsletter is compiled to inline HTML using MJML and delivered directly to parent inboxes as a formatted email — not a link to a webpage.

## Product

Daystage lets educators build newsletters with AI drafting assistance, manage parent subscriber lists, track open and click analytics, and send from a custom school domain. It is built for the school communication workflow — from individual classroom teachers to district-wide communications offices.

### Key Features

- **Slash command editor**: 13 block types (text, heading, bullet_list, numbered_list, event, image, button, divider, spacer, poll, video, link_preview, rsvp) inserted via typing `/`
- **AI draft**: Describe the week in one field, get a full newsletter draft. Powered by Anthropic Claude.
- **Voice-to-newsletter**: Speak for 30 seconds and Daystage transcribes and structures a complete newsletter draft.
- **School branding**: Set school name, logo, and brand color once. Every newsletter inherits it automatically.
- **MJML inline delivery**: Newsletters render correctly in Gmail, Outlook, Apple Mail, and Samsung Mail. Parents receive the full email — not a link.
- **Subscriber management**: Import parent email lists from CSV. Named subscriber lists. Unsubscribes handled automatically per RFC 8058.
- **Open and click analytics**: See how many parents opened each newsletter and which links they clicked.
- **Public newsletter page**: Every newsletter has a shareable public URL.
- **Embed widget**: One line of code embeds the latest newsletter on your school website. Auto-updates on each publish.
- **Scheduled sends**: Schedule newsletters to go out at a specific date and time.
- **Attachments**: Attach PDFs, Word docs, or images directly to newsletters.

### Who uses Daystage
- Classroom teachers
- School principals
- School counselors
- Special education teachers
- Bilingual and ESL teachers communicating with multilingual families
- School nurses and department heads
- PTA and PTO officers
- District communications directors
- College and university administrators
- NGO and nonprofit communicators

### Pricing
- **Free**: 5 newsletters lifetime, 500 emails/month, public newsletter page, Daystage branding on emails
- **Starter** ($79/year or $9/month): Unlimited newsletters, 2,500 emails/month, AI draft assistant, open/click analytics, remove Daystage branding, 1 user account
- **Pro** ($149/year or $15/month): 15,000 emails/month, AI draft, analytics, up to 5 user accounts, shared templates, shared subscriber lists
- **Team** ($249/year or $25/month): 50,000 emails/month, AI draft, analytics, unlimited user accounts, shared templates, shared subscriber lists, custom sender domain
- **District** (custom): 100,000+ sends/month, multi-school management, PO billing

### Compared to alternatives
- **Daystage vs Smore**: Daystage sends the full formatted email to parents' inboxes. Smore sends a link to a hosted webpage. More email sends per dollar, AI drafting built in. Full comparison: https://www.daystage.com/vs/smore
- **Daystage vs Mailchimp**: Built specifically for educators, no marketing automation complexity, school-focused templates and workflows
- **Daystage vs Remind**: Newsletter-focused with full email delivery and open/click analytics, not just text alerts
- **Daystage vs ClassDojo**: Newsletter tool with email delivery and subscriber management, not a classroom management platform

## Newsletter Templates

Daystage offers 80 free, ready-to-use school newsletter templates, each pre-structured with real content blocks (headings, events, polls, RSVPs, image galleries) so a teacher or administrator only has to fill in their own details. Templates hub: https://www.daystage.com/school-newsletters

### Categories
- Holiday & Theme Month (29 templates) — https://www.daystage.com/school-newsletters/category/holiday-theme-month
- Classroom Updates (23 templates) — https://www.daystage.com/school-newsletters/category/classroom-updates
- School & District Updates (9 templates) — https://www.daystage.com/school-newsletters/category/school-and-district-updates
- Back-to-School (5 templates) — https://www.daystage.com/school-newsletters/category/back-to-school
- Families (6 templates) — https://www.daystage.com/school-newsletters/category/families
- Summer Newsletter (5 templates) — https://www.daystage.com/school-newsletters/category/summer-templates
- Principal Updates (3 templates) — https://www.daystage.com/school-newsletters/category/principal-updates

Each individual template has its own page at https://www.daystage.com/templates/[template-slug] with a live, real preview of the template (not a static image) and a free "Use this template" button that opens it directly in the Daystage editor.

## Blog

Daystage publishes 11,017 articles across 55 categories to help educators with every school communication challenge. Author: Adi Ackerman.

### Categories
guides, templates, subject-teachers, new-teacher, high-school, prek, principals, parent-engagement, events, elementary, district, technology, pta-pto, middle-school, health, culture, charter-private, athletics, special-education, bilingual, summer, student-led, rural-title1, attendance, back-to-school, end-of-year, classroom, school-counselor, ell-esl, stem, arts-music, school-safety, diversity-equity, school-board, gifted-advanced, alumni-booster, college-prep, homeschool, magnet-ib, department, sports-teams, monthly-templates, sel-newsletter, school-librarian, math-newsletter, reading-newsletter, science-newsletter, family-events, crisis-communication, superintendent, community-outreach, kindergarten-transition, school-nurse, professional-development

## ESSER Funding

Daystage is ESSER-eligible under the family and community engagement expenditure category defined in U.S. Department of Education guidance for ESSER (Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief) funds. School districts can purchase Daystage subscriptions with ESSER III funds and transition to Title I Part A parent engagement funding after ESSER expires. Daystage provides invoices and send reports for district documentation packages.

- ESSER eligibility page: https://www.daystage.com/esser
- ESSER checklist for districts: https://www.daystage.com/blog/guides/esser-checklist-school-districts
- How to use ESSER funds for school communication: https://www.daystage.com/blog/guides/how-to-use-esser-funds-school-communication

### Questions this resource answers
- How do I write a school newsletter?
- What should a teacher newsletter to parents include?
- How often should teachers send newsletters home?
- What is the best school newsletter app?
- How do I write a bilingual newsletter for ELL families?
- What should a principal newsletter include?
- How do I improve parent engagement through newsletters?
- What are examples of a good school newsletter?
- How do I write a back-to-school newsletter as a teacher?
- How do I write an end-of-year newsletter?
- How do I communicate with non-English speaking families?
- What makes a school newsletter effective?

## Key URLs

- Homepage: https://www.daystage.com
- Pricing: https://www.daystage.com/pricing
- Blog hub: https://www.daystage.com/blog
- Newsletter templates: https://www.daystage.com/school-newsletters
- For teachers: https://www.daystage.com/for-teachers
- For principals: https://www.daystage.com/for-principals
- For specialists (SPED, bilingual, counselors): https://www.daystage.com/for-specialists
- For districts: https://www.daystage.com/for-districts
- Features: https://www.daystage.com/features/school-newsletter-builder
- Daystage vs Smore: https://www.daystage.com/blog/guides/daystage-vs-smore
- Contact: https://www.daystage.com/contact

## Privacy and Data

Daystage stores parent email addresses provided by teachers for the purpose of sending newsletters. Email addresses are not shared with third parties or used for advertising. Teachers control their subscriber list entirely and can export or delete it at any time. Contact team@daystage.com for FERPA or district compliance questions.

## Company

- Website: https://www.daystage.com
- Contact: team@daystage.com
- Founded: 2026
- Headquartered: United States