This two-day intensive workshop, offered each spring, prepares district directors and facilitators for partnerships to lead and support schools in building sustainable, goal-oriented programs of school, family, and community partnerships. NNPS defines a “district facilitator” as a district-level specialist who is charged by the school system to provide direct support to schools' Action Teams for Partnerships (ATP's) to strengthen school-based programs of family and community involvement.
At the District Leadership institute (DLI), district leaders for partnerships learn the components of the NNPS model and their dual roles to improve district-level leadership and to assist schools to strengthen school-based partnership programs. Attendees leave the workshop with a customized strategic plan for the next school year. Their plans identify how they will train and guide schools to develop family and community involvement programs that support school improvement goals, such as improving reading, math, and science skills, attendance, behavior, postsecondary planning and other goals for student success.
The DLI also welcomes state and organizational leaders for partnerships who will prepare district leaders and/or schools to do this work, linked to NNPS.
Click here for the 2013 DLI Brochure and Registration Form.
NNPS will conduct local and regional District Leadership Institutes on request.
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 will offer three evaluation services to help district and state leaders connect measures of the quality of partnership programs with school improvement goals and students’ educational outcomes.
(a) Schedule training in the use of NNPS evaluation tools and resulting data in your location.
b) Request NNPS to prepare a detailed one-year or multi-year summary of school UPDATE data from your location.
These services will help members make better use of NNPS evaluation tools and apply the results of these evaluations in their own locations.
(a) Use NNPS surveys to collect parent, teacher, and/or student perceptions of school partnership programs, and request data analyses and a customized report of your survey results.
Leaders in some schools and districts want to conduct surveys of parents, teachers, and/or students to learn their attitudes about partnership experiences and ideas for improving family and community involvement programs. NNPS’s surveys may be used for these purposes. NNPS evaluators can, under contract, conduct the surveys, analyze the data, and provide a report.
(b) Plan with NNPS and your district’s evaluation office to connect schools’ UPDATE data to longitudinal student achievement, attendance, or other data to learn if the quality of partnership programs contributes to student outcomes.
This service will help members connect their own achievement test score data to the scales and measures that NNPS collects each year. This will enable districts with a sizable number of schools in NNPS to address the question: Does the quality of our schools’ partnership programs contribute, independently, to changes in student achievement test scores at the school level, after accounting for the prior year’s test scores?
Learn to add measures of the quality of schools’ partnership programs to your state’s or district’s general data/accountability system. Evaluate all schools (whether they are members of NNPS or not) and integrate measures of family and community involvement in your assessments of schools and in reports to parents and the public.
For more information on the nature and costs of these services, or to arrange workshops, leadership training, or contracts to conduct evaluations or to analyze and report NNPS data from your schools, contact Dr. Steve Sheldon, NNPS Director of Research, at ssheldon@csos.jhu.edu or 410-516-5489.
NNPS offers members customized professional development workshops, including 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.
Because some members of NNPS cannot come to Baltimore for professional development, the workshops at members’ locations will help more schools, districts, and states increase the quality their partnership programs.
The workshops were developed for NNPS’s annual Leadership Development Conferences and District Leadership Institutes. They prepare district leaders to conduct district-level involvement activities and to facilitate schools’ partnership programs. The workshops also guide schools’ Action Teams for Partnerships to organize and strengthen their programs and involve all families in their children's education.
Topics include the NNPS One-Day Workshop for schools' Action Teams for Partnerships, the two-day District Leadership Institute for district leaders, and advanced topics such as 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.
Arrangements for Workshops on the Road are made with NNPS Facilitators, on a mutually-satisfactory schedule and on a first-come, first-served basis.
Click here for the Workshops on the Road Brochure (in PDF format) for more information.
NNPS conducts Web Conferences on strategies for program development.
1) Web Conference on District Leadership and Facilitation is conducted each year to help District Leaders for Partnerships consider strategies that will improve district-level leadership on partnerships and increase their direct facilitation of schools’ Action Teams for Partnerships (ATPs). Attendees will review, discuss, and apply the NNPS tool Lead and Succeed: A District Inventory of Leadership and Facilitation Strategies.
This web conference also is appropriate for Organization Leaders for Partnerships in NNPS who are conducting a project to help schools’ ATP develop their partnership programs.
The next NNPS Web Conference on District Leadership and Facilitation is January 29, 2013 from 2:00-3:30PM (EST).
This year registration is FREE, as we are testing a new web conference system.
Follow these 3 easy steps to register for the Web Conference:
Registration for the Web Conference will close on January 24, 2013. To cancel, notify Darcy by January 24.
If you have any questions, contact Darcy Hutchins at dhutchins@jhu.edu or 410-516-8893.
2) Web Conference for Schools' Action Teams for Partnerships (ATP) is conducted each year to help schools in the “start up” phase in their partnership programs to write better One-Year Action Plans for Partnerships for the next school year. Attendees will review the basic components of the NNPS model, how to write a goal-oriented plan for partnerships, and how to strengthen the ATP.
ATPs should have at least 3 team members attend this web conference together. District and organization leaders may organize school teams to attend. School, district, and organization leaders in NNPS will receive information via e-mail in advance to register for this web conference.
The next NNPS Web Conference for Schools’ Action Teams for Partnerships is February 6, 2013 from 2:00-3:30PM (EST).
This year registration is FREE, as we are testing a new web conference system.
Follow these 3 easy steps to register for the Web Conference:
Registration for the Web Conference will close on February 1, 2013. To cancel, notify Darcy by February 1.
If you have any questions, contact Darcy Hutchins at dhutchins@jhu.edu or 410-516-8893.
3) EVALUATING SCHOOL AND DISTRICT PARTNERSHIP PROGRAMS
Web conference for District Leaders on Evaluating School and District Partnership Programs is conducted each year to help district leaders in NNPS learn the basic steps in evaluating the quality and progress of district-level and school-based partnership programs. With NNPS research and development specialists, participants discuss program goals, NNPS tools to measure progress, feasible strategies for assessing program implementation, and reasonable approaches for evaluating results.
Date will be announced in an E-brief and on this website.
Webinar from Education Week:
ENGAGING PARENTS IN SCHOOLS AND STUDENT LEARNING
Other professional development training workshops and presentations can be arranged. Call an NNPS Facilitator or Researcher to discuss the topics on school, family, and community partnerships that will help improve your program.
All members of NNPS receive benefits and services that increase knowledge and skills on partnerships. For on-going professional development that follows-up workshops with information, examples, and support, NNPS provides:
See other sections of this website for technical assistance and examples of best practices that may be adopted or adapted to improve your programs.