NNPS Workshops – On the Road is a new service to help members continuously improve their partnership programs. (Click for full brochure (pdf)) The professional development workshops include 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.
Some members of NNPS come to Baltimore for professional development, but many others are unable to attend those conferences. Taking the workshops on the road – directly to members’ sites – 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. They prepare district leaders to conduct district-level involvement activities and to facilitate their schools’ partnership programs. The workshops also guide schools’ Action Teams for Partnerships to organize their programs and involve all families in their children’s education.
The professional development workshops include the NNPS One-Day Workshop for Action Teams for Partnerships, the 2-day District Leadership Institute for district leaders, and many advanced topics to increase partnership program quality. Topics include 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.
The workshops, to be conducted by contract, may be offered to many schools’ teams at the same time, many district leaders in a region, as breakout sessions at state conferences, and in other ways arranged with NNPS Facilitators. A brochure on NNPS Workshops-On the Road will be mailed to NNPS members this fall.