Published Version to Share With Colleagues: 
UPDATE Data Show Schools and Districts
Hard at Work on Partnership Programs
Over 750 schools and 107 districts returned 2008 UPDATE surveys to renew their membership in NNPS and to report on progress and challenges in their partnership programs...
Corwin Gives NNPS Members 20% Discount
on New Edition of Your Handbook for Action
The new School, family, and community partnerships: Your handbook for action, third edition (2009) by J. L. Epstein and NNPS co-authors was released in January. The book guides school-based Action Teams for Partnerships and district and state leaders in planning, implementing, and evaluating a research-driven program of family and community involvement...
Issues and Insights:
Going Green with NNPS Communications
With an eye on the future, NNPS will “go-green” with Type 2 in the fall. In addition, we will e-mail several other communications to members. This eco-friendly decision will save trees and save funds...
NNPS Web Conferences Serve District Leaders and School Teams
Each year, NNPS Facilitators conduct web conferences for district leaders and for school teams across the United States and Canada. Web conferences, conducted for 90 minutes, are short workshops with targeted information and activities on essential partnership program components...
Education World Features Promising Practices
Education World, known as “the educator’s best friend,” is linking to NNPS to feature activities from the annual books of Promising Partnership Practices. For the past three years, Education World selected creative and varied activities that involve families in goal-linked activities to support student success...
Meeting the Challenge: Get Information from Workshops and Meetings to ALL Families
NNPS stresses the importance of addressing key challenges to enable more families to stay involved in their children’s education. As shown in our recently-released school and district summaries of 2008 UPDATE data, the vast majority of NNPS members are working to meet many challenges to school, family, and community partnerships...
Middle and High School Report: Never Too Late: Involvement for Student Success in Middle and High School
It is in everyone’s best interest to have an educated and competent work force. Educators are working hard to increase the number of students who graduate from high school and who are ready for college or for career and technical education. Families and communities can help...
Our Growing Network - Spring 2009 (pdf)
Elementary School Report:
Smooth Transitions Welcome Young Students and Families to School
Practically everyone has moved at least once – to a new city, new home, or new job. Every move is both distressing and exciting. Will you be received well? Will you find new friends? Will you be happy? First impressions are important and so is the reception you receive. Students and their families feel the same mix of anxiety and excitement when entering a new school...
Research Brief:
Focus Partnerships on Results for Students
The new edition of the Handbook for Actionincludes a chapter by Dr. Steven B. Sheldon that summarizes over 100 studies on the effects of family and community involvement. The literature review reports results of family involvement on students’ reading, math, and science achievement and on selected behavioral outcomes...