Homeroom Global · for international and multilingual schools
One platform for a school that serves families in many languages.
An international or multilingual school speaks to families in more than one language and answers to more than one set of expectations. Homeroom Global carries the full platform -- publications, records, the directory, picture day, and communication, all off one roster -- and adds a private translation lane, IN DEVELOPMENT, planned to run on our own computers. Not live yet -- this page says so plainly.
The full platform is live today for any school, anywhere. The private translation lane is in development and is not live yet; this page labels it that way, not as a feature you can turn on now.
The full platform, live today
An international or multilingual school runs the same platform as every other Homeroom school -- publications, records, the directory, picture day, and communication -- with nothing held back for a later tier.
One roster, many families
Records, the directory, and communication all read from one roster, so a school serving families from many places keeps a single, consistent source of truth instead of a spreadsheet per office.
Private translation, in development
A private translation lane is in development, planned to run on our own computers. It is not live yet, and this page does not pretend otherwise.
A school that does not answer to just one language
An international school, a bilingual charter, or a school with a large newcomer-family population is not a smaller or simpler version of a single-language school -- it is a school that has to get the same jobs done (records, a roster, a yearbook, a picture day, a notice home) while answering to families who read, write, and speak differently from one another. Homeroom Global starts from the same full platform every other Homeroom school runs, because the underlying jobs are the same jobs; what is different is how a school reaches everyone once the work is done.
Nothing about running an international or multilingual school is treated here as an edge case bolted onto a domestic product. It is the platform, used by a school whose families happen to speak more than one language at home -- which is exactly why the census row for this address exists as its own front door rather than a footnote on the flagship page.
The private translation lane: in development, and said honestly
A private translation lane is in development. It is not live today, and this page does not pretend otherwise. Here is the honest, conditional shape of it rather than a tidy claim of something already shipped: it is planned to translate notices and, as a further step after that, parent-facing publications, and it is planned to run on our own computers — the same private infrastructure homeroom.cloud already describes for a school’s records — rather than routing a family’s or a student’s text through an outside translation cloud. So WHEN IT LANDS, a school reaches every family in their own language without sending that text to a third party. That outcome has not shipped yet.
Until the translation lane lands, the honest way to reach a multilingual family today is the same as any Homeroom school: publications, notices, and messages a school's own staff writes and sends, in whatever language that staff writes them in. Homeroom Global does not translate anything for a school today, and does not claim to.
Publications for everyone the school serves
The yearbook, the newspaper, and the online edition run in one editor, the same editor every Homeroom school's publication staff already uses. A school that serves several language communities tells one shared story through that editor -- a book, a paper, an edition -- that families across those communities can all hold in their hands, even before any translation of the surrounding notices exists.
Picture day runs on the same platform too, so a family's picture-day paperwork, scheduling, and delivery are part of the one system a school already uses for everything else, not a separate vendor's portal a multilingual front office has to explain twice.
One roster, not a system per office
Records, the directory, and communication all draw from the same roster. For a school juggling more than one language of instruction, or a group of campuses that together serve a wide range of home languages, that matters more than it does for a single-language school: a family's contact information, a student's enrollment record, and the directory entry a front-office staffer looks up are one fact, not three copies that can drift out of sync across offices.
Records live on our own private infrastructure, the same posture as every other Homeroom school. Photos are never sold. None of that changes because a family's home language is not English -- the privacy posture is the platform's, not a tier reserved for a subset of schools.
What is live, and what is in development
The platform underneath is running for an international or multilingual school today. Here is exactly where the language piece stands.
Live today
The full K-12 platform -- publications, records, the directory, picture day, and communication -- off one shared roster, for any Homeroom school, anywhere.
In development: the private translation lane
Planned to run on our own computers and translate notices; not built yet. Today, reaching a multilingual family runs through the platform's normal publications and messaging, written by a school's own staff.
A further step after that: translated publications
Translated parent-facing publications are described as a step AFTER the notice-translation lane lands -- further out still, and not promised on a timeline here.
How we label it
If a capability is live, this page says live; if it is in development, this page says that — not “coming soon” theater. A school should never expect a translation feature that has not actually shipped.
Common questions
Does Homeroom Global translate our notices or publications today?
No. The private translation lane is in development and is not live yet. Today, a school's notices, messages, and publications are written and sent by the school's own staff, in whatever language they choose -- the platform does not translate anything automatically yet.
When the translation lane ships, where does the translation happen?
It is planned to run on our own computers -- the same private infrastructure that already holds a school's records -- rather than sending a family's or a student's text to an outside translation service. That is the planned design; it has not shipped yet.
Is the rest of the platform limited or simplified for an international school?
No. Homeroom Global runs the full platform -- publications, records, the directory, picture day, and communication -- the same platform every other Homeroom school runs, off one shared roster.
How many languages, schools, or countries does Homeroom Global support?
This page does not publish a language count, a school count, or a country count, because we would rather leave a figure unstated than invent one. The platform itself is not limited to a fixed language list -- a school's staff write and publish in whatever languages they use.
What happens to family and student data for a multilingual school?
Records live on our own private infrastructure, the same posture as every other Homeroom school. Photos are never sold. Once the translation lane lands, it is planned to run on that same private infrastructure rather than an outside translation cloud.
How is this different from homeroom.cloud?
homeroom.cloud is the data-residency facet: where the platform runs and where a school's data lives today. Homeroom Global is the language-and-family-reach facet for an international or multilingual school -- and the planned translation lane is designed to run on that same homeroom.cloud infrastructure once it lands.
How is this different from homeroom.solutions?
homeroom.solutions is for districts and multi-school groups -- every school on the full platform, rolled up under one privacy and money model. Homeroom Global is about language and family reach, not roll-up billing; an international school group with several campuses may care about both.
Is it free, and is there a checkout on this page?
The core is free to start. There is no checkout and no live charge anywhere on this page.
What this page is and is not claiming
Homeroom Global is the international-and-multilingual-school facet of the platform: the full K-12 platform — publications, records, the directory, picture day, and communication, off one shared roster — is live today for any Homeroom school. A private translation lane is in development and is not live: it is planned to run on our own computers so that, once it lands, a school can reach every family without sending student text to an outside translation service — that is a conditional, future claim, not a present-tense one, and this page never implies the translation lane already exists. Records live on our own private infrastructure today, and photos are never sold. There is no fabricated language count, school count, country count, testimonial, or adoption figure here, and no competitor or translation vendor is named. This is a for-profit vendor, not a charity, and nothing here is dressed up as a charitable gift. The core is free to start, and this page runs no checkout.