This two-day intensive workshop, offered each spring, prepares district directors and facilitators for partnerships to lead and support schools in building sustainable, goal-oriented programs of school, family, and community partnerships. NNPS defines a “district facilitator” as a district-level specialist who is charged by their school system to provide direct support to schools to strengthen school-based programs of family and community involvement.
At the District Leadership institute, new district leaders for partnerships learn the components of the NNPS model and their dual roles to improve district-level leadership and to assist schools to strengthen school-based partnership programs. Attendees leave the workshop with a customized strategic plan for the next school year. Their plans identify how they will train and guide schools to develop family and community involvement programs that support school improvement goals, such as improving reading, math, and science skills, attendance, behavior, postsecondary planning and other goals for student success.
Registration is closed for the 2008 District Leadership Institute in Baltimore.
NNPS offers members customized professional development workshops, including basic training for district leaders and for school teams to start their programs, and advanced topics for members of NNPS who are ready to tackle tough challenges to involve all families in their locations.
Because some members of NNPS cannot come to Baltimore for professional development, the workshops at members’ locations will help more schools, districts, and states increase the quality their partnership programs.
The workshops were developed for NNPS’s annual Leadership Development Conferences, District Leadership Institute, and the Military Child Initiative for districts and schools serving families in the military. They prepare district leaders to conduct district-level involvement activities and to facilitate schools’ partnership programs. The workshops also guide schools’ Action Teams for Partnerships to organize and strengthen their programs and involve all families in their children's education.
Topics include the NNPS One-Day Workshop for schools' Action Teams for Partnerships, the two-day District Leadership Institute for district leaders, and advanced topics such as improving family and community involvement at times of transition, in single-parent households, with multicultural families, in ways that support student learning in reading, math, and other subjects, and more.
Arrangements for Workshops on the Road are made with NNPS Facilitators, on a mutually-satisfactory schedule and on a first-come, first-served basis.
Click on Workshops on the Road for more information.
NNPS conducts Web Conferences on strategies for program development.
New! JUNE 12 Web Conference for DISTRICT LEADERS IN NNPS:
Evaluate Your Schools’ and District’s
Partnership Programs
The National Network of Partnership Schools (NNPS) is pleased to offer a new web conference for district-level facilitators who (previously) attended an NNPS conference or workshop for training. This web conference topic is Evaluate Your Schools’ and District’s Partnership Programs. Conference participants will learn basic elements of program evaluations and how to use these strategies to understand the strengths and weaknesses of their district’s and schools’ partnership programs. During the 90-minute session, participants will discuss program goals, identify NNPS tools that may help measure progress, and plan realistic steps to evaluate important qualities and results of the partnership program.
The date and time of the NNPS Evaluation Web Conference as follows:
June 12, 2008
2:00-3:30 EDT
1:00-2:30 CDT
12:00-1:30 MDT
11:00-12:30 PDT
(Please note your time zone for the correct start and end time.)
Registration is easy and FREE on a first-come, first-served basis! Space is limited, so registration today!
1. Go to the following website: http://www.uwex.edu/ics/wlwreg/wlwwelcome.cfm
2. Click on “National Network of Partnership Schools”
3. Follow the instructions on the page to set-up an account and register for the conference.
If you have questions about this web conference, contact Darcy Hutchins at (410) 516-8893 or dhutchins@csos.jhu.edu.
YOU MAY ATTEND!
NNPS Web Conference for Schools
Forty-seven participants from 17 states attended the NNPS Web Conference for Schools, January 2008. Web Conference leader, Darcy Hutchins and her colleague Marsha Greenfeld, both Senior Program Facilitators at NNPS, presented information and conducted activities to help schools’ Action Teams for Partnerships take steps in developing successful partnership programs for student success. Participants were guided to form an Action Team for Partnerships and write a One-Year Action Plan for Partnerships for the 08-09 school year.
If you are new to NNPS, need a short “refresher course,” or were not able to attend the conference in January, it’s not too late! You may access the 90-minute Conference Archive for one year to January 2009! Our tech partner is Wisline, a responsive service for web conferences.
Access to the Wisline archive is as easy as 1-2-3:
1. Go to https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/wislineweb/view
2. Enter: Your Name
Recording ID: MWK9N5-080123
Recording Key: (Leave Blank)
Click on: View Recording
3. Click on: View Microsoft Office Live Meeting Replay
SOFTWARE NOTE: You will need Windows Media Player 9 (or better) and a 128 Kbps (high speed) in order to view the archive. Windows Media Player 9 will display all aspects of a meeting including live demonstrations. Media Player 9 is available (free) from the following website: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/9series/player.aspx
If you want copies of the handouts the participants received prior to viewing the archive, e-mail your request to: Darcy Hutchins at dhutchins@csos.jhu.edu. She will e-mail the materials to you. Also, use your NNPS Handbook for Action, Second Edition to plan your school’s goal-oriented program of family and community involvement.
To join NNPS for notification of future web conferences, click on Join NNPS on this website for invitations and membership forms.
If you have questions, contact Darcy Hutchins at 410-516-8893 or dhutchins@csos.jhu.edu
Other professional development training workshops and presentations can be arranged. Call an NNPS Facilitator or Researcher to discuss the topics on school, family, and community partnerships that will help improve your program.
All members of NNPS receive benefits and services that increase knowledge and skills on partnerships. For on-going professional development that follows-up workshops with information, examples, and support, NNPS provides:
See other sections of this website for technical assistance and examples of best practices that may be adopted or adapted to improve your programs.