Frost Elementary School
Frostburg, MD
When it comes to school attendance, absence neither makes a student’s heart grow fonder, nor mind grow sharper. Faced with a drop in overall attendance during the first semester, school officials tapped the Partnership Action Team at Frost Elementary to activate the school community to increase the number of children in school every day. More...
Lori Beeman, Partnership Team/ 5th grade teacher
301-689-5168 lori.beeman@acps.k12.md.us
Type 6 | Elementary | Behavior
Nellie Stone Johnson School
Minnesapolis, MN
Intended to build strong relationships and reduce student suspensions, the Care Fair showed families that their school staff cared a great deal about their well being. It also stressed that the teachers and administrators cared enough to offer families personal support, as well as referring them to organizations that might address students’ behaviors that warranted suspension. More...
Stephanie Johnson, LGSW, School Social Worker
612-668-2954 stephanie.johnson@mpls.k12.mn.us
Type 1 | Elementary | Behavior
Peyton Elementary School
Huntington, WV
In its own way, Peyton Elementary allows families to bring home one of the school’s most valuable resources—the principal. Called From My House to Your House, the 15-minute video stars Peyton’s school principal. She discusses parenting topics with insights drawn from her own experiences as a mother and shares parenting tips that did or did not work in raising her children. Distributed to parents on a DVD at least twice a year, the video is shot—where else?—at the principal’s own house. More...
Marion Ward, Principal
304-528-5173 mkward@access.k12.wv.us
Type 1 | Elementary | Behavior
Lowell Elementary School
Fresno, CA
Not laser eyes or razor claws or superhuman strength, but trust, compassion, citizenship. ?ese are the superpowers of the Lowell Heroes. More giving than the average giver, more courageous than the not-so-brave bystander, with help from the Lowell Heroes Program, students in grades 3–6 have gone from littering a neighbor’s yard to planting trees, and from jumping fences to leaping sky-high social and academic barriers in a single bound. More...
Connie Provencio, Lowell Neithborhood Resource Center Director
559-486-7104 Connie.provencio@fresnounified.org
Type 6 | Elementary | Behavior
Phoenix Academy Elementary School
Fresno, CA
As an alternative school in the Fresno Unified School District, Phoenix Academy faces a tremendous need to support families’ parenting skills. The principal and vice-principal wrote that the vast majority of their students came from homes that experience extreme poverty and many families have not had positive relationships with their children’s previous schools. With its weekly Parenting Lab, Phoenix Academy looks to change that relationship. More...
Brian Radtke, Principal
559-248-7500 Brian.Radtke@fresnounified.org
Type 1 | Elementary | Behavior
Naperville Central High School
Naperville, IL
Based on various requests and feedback from parent surveys, the team for School, Family, and Community Partnerships (SFCP) at Naperville Central High School took the initiative to respond to parents’ and teachers’ concerns about students who were not working up to their academic potential. The resulting program, a two-part series called Unlocking Your Child’s Potential: Exploring the Behavior of Underachievement, reflects the SFCP’s efforts to partner with community experts and provide families—from throughout the district—with the tools they need to remediate academic underachievement. More...
Karen Cinzio, SFCP Chairperson
630-717-6920 fourwilldo@aol.com
Type 1 | High School | Behavior