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NNPS Makes 23 Partnership Awards in 2009 for Excellent Plans, Practices, and Progress
Twenty-three NNPS members earned 2009 Partnership Awards. Eleven schools, six districts, five organizations, and one state department of education—more sites than in past years—were recognized by NNPS for excellent work and clear progress in their plans and activities for school, family, and community partnerships...
MetLife Foundation
Continues Grant to NNPS
MetLife Foundation is continuing to support NNPS in 2010 to increase the number, quality, and results of programs of family and community partnerships. In announcing the grant, A. Dennis White, President and CEO of MetLife Foundation, noted that NNPS “bridges the significant divides in research, policy, and effective practice in ways that educators recognize, value, and use.”...
Issues and Insights:
NNPS and NCLB: What IS the Connection?
The goal of NCLB, Section 1118, Parental Involvement, is very clear: Schools must have programs that engage all families in ways that support children’s achievement and success in school. The law also directs districts (LEAs) to guide schools in building school and family capacities to implement these programs...
Increase Multicultural Connections
with the Six Types of Involvement
As the population in the United States becomes more diverse, schools are seeking new and better ways to involve all parents in their children’s education. In Promising Partnership Practices 2009 schools reported activities to involve families with diverse backgrounds using all six types of involvement in the NNPS framework...
Meeting the Challenge:
Develop Partnerships that Support
Families of Students with Special Needs
Strong programs of school, family, and community partnerships select activities to involve all families in many different ways and to focus family and community engagement on academic and non-academic student outcomes. Too often, however, school-wide partnership efforts do not consider or include the families of special education students...
Leadership Line:
Superintendents are Super Important
for Superior Partnership Programs
In NNPS, district leaders for partnerships can assist all schools’ Action Teams for Partnerships to conduct goal-linked programs of family and community involvement if they have strong support from their superintendent and other district leaders. Here are a few ways they build this support...
Our Growing Network - Fall 2009 (pdf)
Middle and High School Report:
Middle and High Schools CAN Organize
Strong Partnership Programs
Middle and high schools face unique challenges in developing and maintaining comprehensive programs of school, family, and community partnerships.” So states the NNPS’s School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Your Handbook for Action, Third Edition (Chapter 6, p. 193). There are several reasons that family involvement tends to drop off in the middle grades...
Research Brief:
District Leaders and a Community Organization
Collaborate
on Partnerships for Ten Years
Research suggests that schools’ capacities to develop and implement programs for educational improvements depend, in part, on the district’s guidance and support for these efforts. In a recently published article, Dr. Mavis G. Sanders, an NNPS research colleague, reported the results of an intensive case study on how one district’s leaders improved their program in a large urban school district...
New NNPS Evaluation Services for Districts and States
Every year, NNPS members report that it is important to evaluate the quality of their partnership programs. They also note that they need help with these evaluations. In response, NNPS is offering three new services to help district and state leaders connect measures of the quality of partnership programs with school improvement goals and students’ educational outcomes...
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