Publications & Products

NNPS HANDBOOK: School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Your Handbook for Action, Second Edition guides school leaders and district and state facilitators to plan, implement, and improve school-family-community partnership programs.
FAMILY READING NIGHT: This new book, Family Reading Night (2008), guides elementary school Action Teams for Partnerships and other leaders to implement ten effective reading nights.
PROMISING PARTNERSHIP PRACTICES: The annual collection of Promising Partnership Practices describes creative and successful school, district, state, and organization level partnership practices submitted by NNPS members.
TYPE 2: NNPS's semi-annual newsletter, Type 2, shares examples of best practices, solutions to challenges, and guidelines for continuous improvement in program development.
RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS: The Center on School, Family, and Community Partnerships at Johns Hopkins University conducts research and reports results in scholarly and practical journals and books to help educators develop and maintain strong programs of partnership.
NNPS VIDEO: Learn what NNPS is all about and what education leaders say about the importance of developing research-based partnership programs for student success. Click for NNPS Video
WORKSHOP RESOURCES: NNPS offers a PowerPoint presentations and color transparencies to help members make presentations, conduct training workshops for schools' Action Teams for Partnerships, and develop Teachers Involve Parents in Schoolwork (TIPS) Interactive Homework.
OTHER PRODUCTS: Guidebooks and materials on developing a family center or family room in a school were developed in a prior research center for improving school, family, and community partnerships. These items may be purchased for as long as copies are available.
INCENTIVE ITEMS: NNPS offers for sale to members:
- Posters of the Six Types of Involvement in English and Spanish.
- T-shirts, mugs, and pens.
SURVEYS & SUMMARIES: NNPS offers surveys and summariesfor teachers, parents, and students for sale to members of NNPS. The scales and measures have been used by professors, graduate students, and school districts to understand current partnership practices, needed improvements, and to explore other research questions about family and community involvement.